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Tragedy struck a Burien family last week as the region recovered slowly from the Dec. 14-15 windstorm that downed power lines and left 1.5 million people shivering in the dark.

Khanh Tran, 46; his wife, Dan Thuy Nguyen, 44; and two sons,…MORE

Todd Carden has been eying Burien for years.

Now, the co-owner of Elliot Bay Brewery and Pub in West Seattle is expanding his business to the south.

A new, larger brew house and restaurant will open in early 2007 at 255 S.W.152nd…MORE

Beginning with the current eighth-graders, Highline public school students likely will be required to take a third year of math in order to graduate.

Superintendent John Welch told board members on Dec. 13 he would recommend that they…MORE

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The Seattle City Council is looking for candidates to serve beginning in January on the Seattle Planning Commission.

Planning Commission members are appointed by both the mayor and the City Council to serve renewable, three-year terms.…MORE

Seattle City Light warns about thieves are calling customers telling them that the customer must give them their credit card number immediately to avoid shut-off of electricity that day.

In this case, the thief indicated a customer hadn't…MORE

A group of White Center students is making an effort to change the way people look at their community, literally, by pressuring local business owners to remove tobacco and alcohol advertisements from their store windows.

The students are…MORE

Students at Thorndyke Elementary in Tukwila received a very big check recently for achieving among the greatest gains in the state on the Washington Assessment of Students Learning (WASL).

Not only was the symbolic check, presented by…MORE

West Seattle High administrators say the school's four-period day schedule is supported by a majority of its staff and the proposal to modify it is being externally driven by a small percentage of parents who are pressuring the district to change…MORE

SeaTac council members rejected a proposal for funding to staff an aid car at all times when they passed the city's 2007 budget on Dec. 12,

Councilman Joe Brennan proposed the budget amendment, which would have added three firefighters to…MORE