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The Internal Revenue Service today urged taxpayers to check to see if they qualify for the telephone excise tax refund after more than 10 million early filers did not request the one-time refund.

In the first release of this year's weekly…MORE

The Department of Neighborhoods announced funding for 28 different neighborhood projects through the department's Matching fund.

This season's award recipients will include projects from all over the city covering subjects as diverse as…MORE

SB 5089

Conforming Washington's tax structure to the streamlined sales and use tax agreement. By a vote of 76 to 15 on March 16, the House approved SB 5089, which would conform Washington law to the national Streamlined Sales and Use Tax…MORE

A U.S. Coast Guardsman died Sunday from injuries received during a security patrol near Vashon Island.

Two 25-foot, fast-response boat crews from a Coast Guard Maritime Safety and Security Team were involved in a security patrol and…MORE

Metro Transit Police introduced their new explosives-sniffing dog "Stevie" to the public last week.

Stevie is the King County Sheriff's Office second explosive-sniffing dog, and the first assigned to Metro Transit fulltime.

He and…MORE

Self-contained special education classes at Alki and Schmitz Park elementary schools will close at the end of the school year due to low enrollment, Seattle School District officials decided.

The district's yearly evaluation of it's…MORE

"I am not going to mince words," King County Councilwoman Julia Patterson told participants at an open house on regional transportation at Highline Community College last week.

"This would be the largest investment of tax revenue in the…MORE

To start a public workshop on a high note, facilitators asked approximately 90 residents to name places in White Center they'd want to take a friend.

Answers poured out: McLendon's Hardware, North Shorewood Park, Taco trucks, Pacific Rim…MORE

Fifteen Highline Community College students will attend school on full tuition waivers after earning Academic Achievement Scholarships for spring quarter 2007.

The winning students earned the scholarships by demonstrating a commitment to…MORE

This summer, West Seattleites will get a taste of what it will be like when the Alaskan Way Viaduct is eventually closed.

Interstate 5 - northbound from Spokane Street to the Interstate 90 interchange - will get major repairs this summer,…MORE