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Chris Jackins is a regular at most Seattle School Board meetings, easily spotted scribbling down notes on a yellow legal pad in his plaid, flannel shirt among district officials in ties and parents in business suits just off from work.

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The board of the King County Ferry District has adopted a plan, budget and financing for the operation next year of the West Seattle Water Taxi and the Vashon Island passenger-only ferry.

Besides the Vashon ferry and year-around Water Taxi…MORE

The city has released design plans for the much anticipated, and in some cases dreaded, "missing link" portion of the Burke Gilman Trail from 11th Avenue Northwest to the Ballard Locks.

The 1.5-mile gap has been the source of great…MORE

The annual Community Food and Toy Drive for Des Moines and Federal Way is now in high gear, and South King Fire and Rescue is asking for the public's generosity once again.

Donations of canned goods, non-perishable (dry) food items and new…MORE

The meeting may not have resulted in any definitive action from the seven-member City Council, but for the crowd of opponents of the proposed development in Northeast Tacoma (and a stone's throw away from the Federal Way line), the venting…MORE

Sound Transit will provide $120,000 for environmental restoration along the Duwamish River to settle two Department of Ecology penalties for water pollution violations on the Sound Link light-rail construction project.

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Increased coyote sightings and the suspected killing of a dog by a coyote in North Seattle were featured in a KING 5 news report on Nov.

The Port of Seattle is beginning the final phase of home buy-outs for its third runway project.

The port, operators of Sea-Tac International Airport, will purchase 29 single-family homes and apartments in the approach transition zone north…MORE

Passenger ferry service from the Des Moines Marina to downtown Seattle is set to begin in 2010.

The King County Council, acting as a ferry district board, authorized on Nov. 13 the Des Moines/South Puget Sound run as one of five…MORE

The desire for low-cost housing shouldn't put residents in harm's way, according to Sen.