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Longfellow Creek overflowed its banks in the Youngstown neighborhood during recent heavy rains and thousands of gallons of creek water flooded the parking lot at All Star Fitness and poured across Andover Street into the Nucor Steel plant. Water…MORE

Highline Community College recently was awarded a U.S.

A new city park is taking shape at the corner of Southwest Alaska Street and 48th Avenue Southwest.

There's going to be a play area for little kids in the northern part of the park with swings for toddlers. Next to that will be a paved…MORE

Residents can help fight hunger and make the holidays brighter for those in need by donating food items or money to Southwest King County food banks.

Food banks rely on donations for 80 to 90 percent of the assistance they receive -- and,…MORE

The Seattle Department of Transportation is trying to figure out where new trees should be placed in medians along a stretch of Southwest Admiral Way to address sight-distance issues raised by the community.

The medians were replaced as…MORE

A complicated and uncomfortable alliance of environmental groups, big business, and government has unified in an effort to clean up the polluted, 5-mile stretch of the Lower Duwamish River, or rather, its hazardous soil beneath.

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Ballard's favorite Santa Claus, Gordon Olsen entertained children and families at Bergen Place on Saturday to help kick off the holiday season.

With the Silver Bell Carolers singing holiday songs and Ballard Chamber of Commerce volunteers…MORE

Mayor Greg Nickels has urged the Seattle City Council to take action by the end of the year on legislation he says could create hundreds of new, affordable homes for working families.

Nickels proposed the "Seattle Homes Within Reach"…MORE

The future of Swedish Hospital in Ballard seems more assured than in the past.

Eight months into his new position as president and chief executive officer of Swedish Medical Center, Dr. Rodney F.

The heavy downpour early last week that besieged the state did not spare Ballard as a mudslide collapsed the freshly-paved Golden Gardens Drive Northwest, the winding wooded road between Northwest 85th Street and Golden Gardens Park.

The…MORE