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The Port of Seattle Commission voted to hire former U.S. Attorney Mike McKay to conduct an internal investigation of the port.

Port Commissioner Bill Bryant, who chairs the Port's Special Investigatory Committee, cited McKay's experience…MORE

Effective March 5, the West Seattle Herald and White Center News will be delivered on Wednesday afternoon or evening instead of Tuesday. If you have not received your paper by 8 a.m. on Thursday morning, please call the Circulation Department at…MORE

The Fauntleroy Community Services Agency is facing a rent increase of double what it pays now to lease an old Seattle School District-owned building when its 10-year lease runs out Feb. 29.

The non-profit has been informed its rent will be…MORE

Seattle School Board members want to know more about where the money would come from and which projects would get deferred as a result of adding money to the Denny Middle School-Sealth High co-location project.

District staff told board…MORE

Every discussion about the Alaskan Way Viaduct inevitably includes references to the "Big Dig" in Boston. It was heard again Tuesday evening during an Alaskan Way Viaduct design workshop at Cooper Elementary School: politicians lied,…MORE

When Diane Sugimura, the director of the Seattle Department of Planning and Development, "crashed" the 50th birthday party of Ballard environmentalist, Vic Opperman, to present her with an official proclamation, the surprised birthday girl…MORE

The sale of 191 rental units is dead for the time being, but residents of the Lock Vista Apartments are still recovering from the disruption of potential eviction from their homes.

About a dozen residents met last week with a…MORE

A class of fifth- and sixth-graders from Bow Lake Elementary in SeaTac ate lunch on Feb.

New blue timetables for Metro bus riders are now available on buses and in information racks at a variety of locations, including libraries and 7-11 stores.

The new Metro transit schedules went into effect Feb. 9.

Des Moines' elegant Landmark on the Sound, an early 20th Century mansion with sweeping views of Puget Sound and Maury Island, will host this year's Poverty Bay Wine Festival events Feb. 29 to March 2.

All proceeds benefit community service…MORE