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The Seattle City Council last week said they would wait one year before considering forcing nightlife establishments to obtain controversial licenses and aide by certain operating rules.

Mayor Greg Nickels had proposed last year that clubs…MORE

After two years of review and public involvement, Seattle School's Chief Academic Officer, Carla Santorno, has decided West Seattle High will revert back to a six-period schedule, but parents and students plan to ask the School Board and new…MORE

The Department of Neighborhoods is adding more hours and more places for passport applications, offered Tuesday through Friday.

Delridge Neighborhood Service Center, 5405 Delridge Way S.W., Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed…MORE

Mayor Greg Nickels wants to keep commercial and retail development off industrial land and has announced an initiative to strengthen zoning protection for industry and manufacturing in Seattle.

The purpose, Nickels said during a press…MORE

Residents of northwest Burien neighborhoods packed a Sept. 19 public hearing to voice opposition to the proposed Emerald Pointe on the Sound condominium development.

Westmark Development, which has had this project on the drawing boards…MORE

Ballard's first "cottage housing," a cluster of individual homes that share some open space, will be developed on two lots at 2203 and 2213 Northwest 60th Street.

A vacant one-story commercial building and a single family house west of it…MORE

The Seattle fireboat Leschi sprays water behind the Sea Scouts' 44-foot gaff-rigged training ketch, Yankee Clipper. The boats were out off Alki recently during the replacement ceremonies for the new bronze Statue of Liberty. Photo by Steve Shay…MORE

The Highline School Board on Sept. 19 threw its support behind proposed congressional action to grant legal residency to undocumented children educated in the United States.

According to the board's resolution, "...under the American DREAM…MORE

As new residential development around Ballard and the rest of the Puget Sound region is completed, rents will likely start to level out by 2010, according to Mike Scott of Dupre and Scott Apartment Advisors.

But it's not all good news for…MORE

The chief executive officer of the Port of Seattle is Tay Yoshitani. His name was misspelled in the Sept. 19 edition.