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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

Members of Our Redeemer's Lutheran Church voted in favor of hosting Tent City 3 during a meeting on Sunday and the roving camp for the homeless is expected in Ballard during March and April next year.

Pastor Steve Grumm attended a meeting…MORE

Swedish Medical Center's Ballard campus has a long history in the community and that tradition apparently will continue to grow with the hospital's Board of Directors approval of a $31.5 million project to build a new outpatient center and…MORE

With a hood over his head and mittens to ward off the cold, Terry Cunningham sells the homeless newspaper Real Change in front of the Bartell Drugs store in Ballard and the money he earns helps him survive.

Cunningham is fortunate, after…MORE

A home on Cove Point Road in North Burien was struck by a massive earth slide mid-morning Tuesday following record rainfall previous day. Resident Barbara Bull was at home when a wall of mud slammed into the back of her house located below an…MORE

The Northwest Design Review Board has approved the design of a new six-story, 31-unit condominium for the northwest corner of 24th Avenue Northwest and Northwest 58th Street. Danielle Condominium is the newest addition planned in a two-block…MORE

Seattle Public Schools have hired Don Kennedy as the district's new chief financial and operations officer.

In the newly configured position, Kennedy assumes the responsibilities of former Chief Operations Officer Mark Green and former…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

Boulevard Park, tucked in the southeast corner of unincorporated North Highline, officially has a third suitor.

SeaTac City Council members on Nov. 26 designated Boulevard Park as a potential annexation area (PAA).

The shortage of foster homes is so critical in the Highline area that, occasionally, social workers have children in foster care sleep on couches in their offices.

On rare occasions, they take these children to a hotel to spend the night…MORE