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At least one prominent corner in Ballard might be sans condo since a city board decided last week to consider the 43-year-old Manning's/Denny's building for landmark status, potentially halting a planned eight-story development there.

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Politics takes center stage later this month in Breeders Theater's 13th production, Crazy/Naked, at E.B. Foote Winery, 127-B S.W. 153rd St., Burien.

Written by Highline playwright T.M. Sell, Crazy/Naked is directed by Doug Knoop with music…MORE

New state Rep. Sharon Nelson has been appointed to legislative committees. She will serve on Agriculture and Natural Resources, the Appropriations Subcommittee on General Government and Audit Review, and Local Government committees.

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Fred Ashbaugh was pictured standing on the balcony of his home in the Dec. 12 Times/News. During the Dec. 3 storm, dirt from his front yard collapsed and slid into Cove Point Road and a home below.

Ashbaugh was misidentified in the cutline…MORE

Seattle Public Schools have hired Don Kennedy as the district's new chief financial and operations officer.

In the newly configured position, Kennedy assumes the responsibilities of former Chief Operations Officer Mark Green and former…MORE

West Seattle's newly appointed state senator, Joe McDermott, has been named to three Senate committees.

McDermott will serve on the Early Learning and K-12 Education, Governmental Operations and Elections and Judiciary committees.

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In the first nine months of 2007, the Employment Security Department caught 17,930 people who fraudulently collected $11.9 million and tried to collect another $6.5 million in unemployment benefits.

The most common types of fraud are…MORE

Two busy West Seattle intersections, and 17 others across the city, will have "red-light" cameras installed this year, Mayor Greg Nickels said last week.

Cameras will show up westbound at Southwest Avalon Way and 35th Avenue Southwest and…MORE

The very sad shooting of a man on I-5 near 320th on Christmas Day is still being investigated by the Washington State Patrol and Federal Way Police.

The tragic incident involving 11-year veteran State Patrolman S.

Editors Note: News year's day was pretty frantic at Burien's Three Tree Point this year. As we headed for the annual Polar bear New Year's day plunge we noted a lot of commotion on the beach where we discovered a beached 25 foot sail boat…MORE