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Most residents of Puget Sound are familiar with the sights of a summertime beach walk. The moon snails, starfish, Dungeness crabs and octopuses.

But these critters don't vanish during the winter.

The city of Tukwila has a big reason to celebrate: it is turning 100 in 2008.

Highline 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…MORE

Seattle will join other communities around Washington to form a coalition to reduce gun violence.

State Rep. Patricia Lantz, the chair of the House Judiciary Committee, has agreed to sponsor legislation that would deny guns to anyone who…MORE

Every month, approximately 1,200 families visit the White Center Food Bank.

Many of those who walk through the doors are hard workers who do not have enough food to make it through the month-single parents, immigrants, and non-English…MORE

Mayor Greg Nickels has proposed an update and rezone to the city's multi-family code, which includes eliminating parking requirements in urban centers and incentive zoning to bring in more affordable homes and rentals.

The changes are…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 Des Moines Library will close for renovation on Tuesday, Dec.

About 20 residents of the Shorewood neighborhood in North Burien were forced from their home Tuesday morning after a landslide pushed a wall of mud onto the street that provides access to their property. Eight homes were evacuated. According to…MORE

The shortage of foster homes is so critical in the Federal Way-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…MORE