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The first signs of a year-and-a-half long King County sewer improvement project at the 53rd Street pump station on Alki Avenue and 53rd appeared Tuesday. Parking is not permitted between 6am-6pm Mondays through Fridays through October 30, 2009,…MORE

The pancakes are not yet flipping at the Charlestown Street Cafe, but owners Larry Mellum and Ron Hanlon, anxious to reopen since the popular spot's February 4 kitchen fire, are starting to see light at the end of the tunnel as insurance…MORE

It's that time of year again.

Through March 16, Highline-area Girl Scouts are selling cookies at local stores and supermarkets.

And again this year, as part of the Girl Scouts Gift of Caring program - in partnership with Seattle-…MORE

A planned housing development west of Pacific Highway South in Des Moines' Redondo community came under fire at the Feb.

King County Council Chairwoman Julia Patterson plans to organize south county community leaders across city boundaries to lobby for more services for the area.

"The time to talk about it is over-it is time to do something," Patterson…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