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Until a few years ago, Peggy Cook had never really thought much about her role in helping further women's rights.

She's one of millions of U.S. women who began work in industrial and trade jobs during World War II - a Rosie the Riveter who…MORE

About 60 area residents attended the Crown Hill Project community meeting to hear three speakers spell out the preliminary financial realities of the purchase and maintenance of that 3.4-acre lot, proposed playground, and school buildings.

An $80 million renovation of the Shilshole Bay Marina, one of the region's largest recreational-boating marinas is nearly finished and the slips are 85 percent full with slips ranging in size from 40 to 50 feet are still available. Boaters who…MORE

South Seattle Community College dedicated a newly expanded and improved Automotive Collision Repair training facility on December 11.

The $1.7 million in improvements include the following:

* New state-of-the-art automotive painting…MORE

Highline Community College recently was awarded a U.S.

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

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

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

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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