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With commencement ceremonies for Highline high schools looming on June 16 and 17, a number of twelfth-graders and their parents are breathing a sigh of relief.

The Class of 2008 is the first group of seniors in the state required to pass…MORE

Construction of a new plaza and pedestal for the Alki Statue of Liberty is on schedule for a ribbon-cutting ceremony Sept. 6 with groundbreaking possibly in mid-July.

Despite attracting almost $100,000 over target, the project has been…MORE

Des Moines lawmakers have endorsed a potential ballot measure that would extend light rail from Sea-Tac International Airport to Tacoma.

This branch of the proposed expansion includes seven stations between the airport and the Tacoma Dome…MORE

A long-awaited mural celebrating life in the Waterland community will be dedicated on June 7, during opening-day festivities at the Des Moines Waterfront Farmers Market.

The public is invited to the noon event, which is free, for their…MORE

Last Oct. 10 Maria Cantwell headlined the grand opening of Propel Biofuels' fuel station at Bernie's Automotive in Ballard, its first of 15 planned. The senator praised the $3.59 per gallon biodiesel for its renewability, minimal discharge of CO2…MORE

The Hi-Liners non-profit youth theatre organization has hired Esther Margaret O'Farrell as its first marketing director.

O'Farrell developed her management and marketing skills at Microsoft.

She has worked in the non-profit sector…MORE

Karma Kreizenbeck has been selected as the new executive director of New Futures.

New Futures is a Burien-based nonprofit that operates programs to assist low-income children and their parents in several Highline apartment complexes.

John Lowe is a man on a mission--His 14th, to be exact.

On April 10, 1945, Lowe was on that 14th mission as a 19-year-old waist gunner aboard a Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" over Brandenburg, Germany.

Suddenly, bullets from a…MORE

"A lot of things have happened to me in 50 years," SeaTac resident Garry Treadwell acknowledges with a serious tone.

Three years after graduating from West Seattle High School in 1958, he was a passenger in a car wreck that almost took his…MORE

The city of SeaTac is going green.

SeaTac lawmakers have voted to join ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability, a group with a membership of 800 cities worldwide, including 400 in the United States.

The group was established in…MORE