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Mayor Greg Nickels plans to increase spending for neighborhood transportation projects to enhance public safety, and improve neighborhood streetscapes.

Following a city outreach effort, Nickels responded by adding $2 million to the city's…MORE

Throughout this month, community initiated projects that would add sidewalks and make other improvements to many Ballard streets are vying for a piece of the city's neighborhood street fund from the "Bridging the Gap" levy.

The projects…MORE

Mayor Greg Nickels wants to keep commercial and retail development off industrial land.

Nickels has announced an initiative to strengthen zoning protection for industry and manufacturing in Seattle. The purpose, Nickels said during a press…MORE

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The number of lanes from Sea-Tac International Airport was reduced last week from three to two in the near-to-terminal area.

Drivers should expect delays leaving the airport, especially during busy travel hours-midday (11 a.m.

Six acres of ridge-top property in the West Duwamish greenbelt - once slated for surplus sale by the city for private condo development - are on their way to preservation as public open space.

The Seattle City Council's committee on parks…MORE

Noting an increase in gang activity in several King County communities, members of the King County Council last week proposed the creation of a gang suppression unit in the King County Sheriff's Office.

JoAn Cox, mother of slain King…MORE

Dozens of people wore surgical masks to a Port of Seattle meeting to protest diesel tractor trailers being parked in residential sections of Georgetown, South Park and White Center.

The protest was staged by the Washington Association of…MORE

River City, Iowa, in 1912 has always been synonymous with "trouble."

You know, the kind of trouble that starts with the presence of a new pool table in the River City billiard hall, a development sure to bring about the moral decline of…MORE

Sen. Erik Poulsen, who's represented West Seattle, White Center, Burien and Vashon Island in the Washington Legislature for 13 years, is quitting to become a lobbyist for public utility districts.

Public utility districts provide…MORE