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King County Elections is postponing all-mail voting until 2009 because the equipment needed has not yet received required federal certification.

Other components for all-mail elections will be phased-in this year.

The vote counting…MORE

Highland Park Elementary School has been awarded a BECU School Grant for $1,750.

It will be used to purchase large screens for each classroom. These screens will complement the new presentation technology that was provided through the last…MORE

Port of Seattle CEO Tay Yoshitani has named Joe McWilliams as managing director of real estate and property management.

McWilliams has over 15 years of experience in the Seattle real estate market. During his career he has served in…MORE

JoAn Cox, the mother of slain King County Deputy Sheriff Steve Cox, was honored as the Burien citizen community activist of the year at the city's 15th birthday celebration and awards ceremony March 28.

Mick Purdy and Adrian Kelly, owners…MORE

A section of the Alaskan Way Viaduct continues to sink, but state crews have almost completed work to stop it.

Bents 93 and 94, the pairs of columns and their cross braces between Columbia and Yesler streets, sank another 3/8 inch,…MORE

Water District 49 in Burien has launched a project to replace the "storts" on local fire hydrants.

A stort is a time-saving device that is permanently attached to a fire hydrant so firefighters don't have to hook up an adaptor before…MORE

Quidnunc, the local computer store in the junction, has been sold to another Seattle based computer company A-1 Best Computers. A-1 Best has two other locations in Ballard and Lake City. Started by Bill Hibler in 1994, Quidnunc began as a…MORE

With temperatures hovering just above freezing this week, Burien residents were treated to a series of low pressure systems off the coast, bringing plenty of rain to match the colder air. Downtown Burien saw plenty of the white stuff, some…MORE

BlueStar Management, Inc., of Shoreline, Washington announced today plans for "Gateway Center" a mixed-use project to be developed on a one acre site at the northeast corner of Fauntleroy Way and S.W. Alaska St. (adjacent to 39th Avenue SW).…MORE

The debate over animal care at King County shelters will be focused in Burien on Monday, April 14, during a county council town hall meeting in the Highline Performing Arts Center, 401 S. 152nd St.

A 6 p.m.