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The Regional Transportation Investment District's road and transit financing funding package got closer to the November ballot last week when the Metropolitan King County Council unanimously approved the plan for submittal to voters in the three-…MORE

The city has announced steps Seattle is taking to improve services to Seattle's growing immigrant and refugee population.

Improved translation and interpretation services, technical assistance for immigrant-owned businesses, increased…MORE

Seattle Congressman Jim McDermott has introduced the Unemployment Insurance Modernization Act.

The proposed law would transform the Unemployment Insurance program to meet the growing needs of a workforce changed dramatically since the…MORE

Today is America's 231st birthday, and a lot of celebrating will be going on in Highline communities.

Here's a look at what's happening.

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The Fourth of July Family Days begins at 10 a.m. and continues until 8 p.m.

Initial results from the recent inspection revealed that a section of the Alaskan Way Viaduct has settled an additional one-quarter of an inch to a total of approximately 5 inches.

The settlement continues to occur in the same area between…MORE

With gang activity increasing in the Pacific Ridge neighborhood of Des Moines and a police force stretched thin by funding cuts, Police Chief Roger Baker realized that he needed help.

This year alone there have been eight gang-related…MORE

Historically during July 4th celebrations, 9-1-1 systems become overloaded with non-emergency calls related to fireworks and other celebrations. Emergency response officials across King County urge citizens not to call 9-1-1 unless a life-…MORE

SeaTac City Council members finally decided on June 26 to formally ask Tukwila officials if that city wants to study merging fire services.

"We've already run this by the (Tukwila) council and they've already said yes," Tukwila Mayor Steve…MORE

Colleen E. Wilson, chief of police in Sumner for nearly five years, will take over as chief of the 130-person Port of Seattle police department around August 1.

"Colleen Wilson is exactly the right leader to make our police department one…MORE

Highline resident Bruce R. Kennedy, a former chief executive officer of Alaska Airlines, was killed on June 28 when his single-engine plane crashed near Wenatchee.

The Cessna 182 crashed and burned while trying to land in a Cashmere school…MORE