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Seattle-based Starbucks Coffee Co. announced it is donating $550,000 for a flurry of construction in June to make more use of White Center Heights Park.

The park is about 5.5 acres largely hidden on Seventh Avenue Southwest, south of 102nd…MORE

West Seattleites will get a chance after all to vote on how best to replace the Alaskan Way Viaduct but no one knows whether state officials will heed the message.

Two questions will be on the March 13 ballot: Should the Alaskan Way…MORE

For the next few weeks, the Seattle School District will try to convince voters to approve $887 million in school bonds and levies, of which, more than $125 million would fund projects in West Seattle.

Up for approval in a special election…MORE

Former salesmen at Huling Bros. Auto Center, one of West Seattle's largest businesses, were charged last week with breaking into a customer's apartment last summer, stealing $70,000 in cash and laundering the money to cover up the crime.

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Merchants from the Junction Association and representatives of West Seattle neighborhood organizations escorted Mayor Greg Nickels around the business district Saturday afternoon.

Starting at ArtsWest Gallery, about 20 people accompanied…MORE

SeaTac City Councilman Tony Anderson has been caught up in a controversy over sexually explicit emails exchanged on Port of Seattle Police computers.

Anderson, a Port Police lieutenant, is a budget administrator who no longer works in the…MORE

Washington State Ferries began its winter sailing schedule this month, which will continue through March.

Weekend service on the Fauntleroy/Vashon/Southworth route was reduced from three vessels to two.

The winter season is…MORE

Margaret Mitchell might be turning over in her grave. But then again, she might be laughing hysterically. We will never know.

But the author of the beloved literary classic Gone With The Wind would certainly have a boisterous reaction one…MORE

Unlicensed pets could fetch a hefty fine this year if Seattle Animal Shelter officers can catch them.

Thanks to a $250,000 boost in its annual budget the shelter has hired three additional officers, increasing its patrol staff to 15 as…MORE

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