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Mayor Greg Nickels will release $25,000 in aid to renters being displaced by condominium conversions from a $350,000 fund the City Council had set aside to help eligible tenants.

Last month, Nickels froze the funds temporarily because it…MORE

Mayor Greg Nickels has added $2 million to the city's Neighborhood Street Fund in his 2008 budget and that addition means the fund will grow to $10.1 million over the next three years.

"We listened carefully to neighborhoods, and…MORE

Move is a four-letter word. That's exactly the sentiment of many seniors as they think about leaving their home for a smaller one.

Laurie Lamoureux has worked for a decade in the move management field. During the last seven years she has…MORE

Just when the day is winding down at Ballard's Gardner Boat Repair, office manager Stephen Dun sets to work on his second job: fielding phone calls from displaced Burmese citizens and directing funds from his non-profit group to aid emergency…MORE

In July the Nordic Heritage Museum will start paying nearly double it's current rent for a Seattle School District building while it waits to move into a new facility.

The non-profit has settled a new five-year lease with the district,…MORE

Three Ballard companies are putting together major exhibits for the Salmon Bay Event's Northwest Flower and Garden Show coming up on today through Sunday at the Washington State Convention Center.

The shows main attraction will be 26 full-…MORE

The Washington State Patrol says it plans to "vigorously enforce the state's new law against sending text messages while driving," now that the law is in effect.

"Texting while driving was always a bad idea," said State Patrol Chief John R…MORE

The newly founded Seattle King County Gang Prevention and Outreach Work Group says its goal is to collect anecdotal data from youth, analytical data from service providers, and statistical data from a hired consultant, then give it to the Seattle…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