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Tim St. Clair, 57, a legend in West Seattle journalism and 20-year West Seattle Herald reporter died Monday night, Feb. 25, a victim of pancreatic cancer.

The outpouring of grief, comment and concern for his family and friends was…MORE

Mayor Greg Nickels has released $25,000 from a $350,000 fund he'd frozen that the City Council had set aside to aid renters being displaced by condominium conversions, but housing advocates and city council members say they will push for more if…MORE

(Editor's Note: This was Tim St. Clair's last story for the West Seattle Herald. Tim was a regular bus rider to downtown and about anywhere else. He did this story just a short time ago.)

With gas prices topping $3 per gallon, there are a…MORE

The recent designation of the old John B. Allen School as a city landmark could make it fiscally easier for the Phinney Neighborhood Association to purchase it from the Seattle School District.

The Phinney Association has leased the school…MORE

Replacement of the crumbling South Park Bridge is a top concern for the King County Council as well as urging for salmon recovery, transportation infrastructure, buses and passenger ferries, and health care.

"Replacing the South Park…MORE

King County Sheriff's detectives are re-investigating a South Park double homicide from 18 years ago.

On January 15, 1990, a neighbor found the bodies of Steven Dorobis, 34, and Eric Hoyer, 36, in their residence in the 1200 block of South…MORE

The process proposed to update the Ballard/Crown Hill neighborhood plan, and 37 others across the city, won't be as in-depth as when the blueprints were originally conceived in the late 1990s, but city leaders vow there will still be plenty of…MORE

Environmentalist Judy E. Pickens might be known by area residents for her stewardship and restoration efforts of Fauntleroy Creek, but the West Seattle author is also getting recognition for her new book.

The book is Guided By the Light,…MORE

The juvenile suspect wanted in connection with the February 24 shooting on Military Road has turned himself, according to the Federal Way Police Department.

Detectives are now interviewing 16-year-old Deondre L McDougle regarding his…MORE

For Dan Rector, the academic learning comes during the school day and the magic starts after the last bell rings.

Rector, 17, is a member of the Ballard High School Drama Program which rehearses at the end of the school day. He just…MORE