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Gee Automotive closed all of its facilities last week and a court battle is developing between the Gee family of the Spokane area and the Hulings who sold the dealerships but retain ownership of the land along Fauntleroy Way. Photo by Patrick…MORE

By Steve Shay

Escalating construction costs in the region have pressed Seattle Public Schools to accelerate by one year its plans to build a shared Denny Middle School and Sealth High School campus.

The $125 million project is part of the district's…MORE

The Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association dreams of building a commercial center - a downtown for Delridge - on the Louisa Boren Junior High School site.

First the Delridge Association must persuade the Seattle School District to…MORE

To ensure the accuracy of King County elections from start to finish, the Metropolitan King County Council has called on the Washington State Legislature to revise state law and allow counties to adopt customized procedures for conducting post-…MORE

U.S. Sen. Patty Murray and Gov. Chris Gregoire marked on Oct. 10 the beginning of traffic improvements on state routes 518 and 509 at the Tukwila light rail station, which is still under construction.

They also paid tribute to Sound…MORE

The city of SeaTac was a winner of the 2007 Governor's Smart Communities Awards announced recently by Gov.

Mount Rainier High School has been named one of 86 "Schools of Distinction" by the state Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) for dramatic improvements in student reading and mathematics over the past several years.

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Cross country athletes from Decatur, Federal Way, Thomas Jefferson, Todd Beamer and Curtis push towards the finish line during last Wednesday's meet at Federal Way High School. Justin Englund of Decatur, right, won the meet with a time of 14:04,…MORE

Seattle's industrial lands are the source of good paying jobs for 25 percent of the city's workforce, but industry owners worry that growing pressure to build condos and apartment buildings on land zoned for industrial use threatens their…MORE