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As old as its hosting city, the King County Aquatics Center celebrates 17 years of service to the community as a local recreational arena.

Regarded as one of the Federal Way's most heralded achievements, the center brings in over $8…MORE

Last week I cleaned out my garage and found a few pieces of copper and aluminum scrap leftover from a remodeling project.

I figured that since the price of metals has gone up quite a bit lately, I'd drop the stuff off at the nearest…MORE

Cesar Portillo has joined Highline Community College as executive director for human resources.

Portillo has Highline 15 years of experience in employee relations and policy/procedure development as well as extensive knowledge of…MORE

For weeks, Jill Ochsner has been glued to her television set. The evening of April 18 was no exception.

It was a memorable night as she watched Sanjaya Malakar be voted off of American Idol. Ochsner knows Sanjaya well-especially his famous…MORE

Jim Nobles, a social services manager, conservationist, and political activist, says he is a candidate for the Seattle City Council.

Nobles serves on the Seattle Monorail Project Board, to which he was elected in 2005 on a platform of…MORE

A city inspector interrupted workers who were installing a new cell phone tower without a permit April 24 atop the same Alki apartment building where two other cellular phone companies applied to expand their own communications equipment.

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Studies to determine the feasibility of bringing light rail to West Seattle and Ballard will be included in the "Roads and Transit" plan that will be put to voters in the autumn.

The Sound Transit board of directors accepted the study…MORE

It hasn't been easy for people trying to get something to eat at the old West Seattle Food Bank. Often about 20 families patiently stood in line on the sidewalk, sometimes in the rain, with cars full of prying eyes on nearby Fauntleroy Way.

A little more than two months on the job, West Seattle High's new principal Bruce Bivins has had his hands full with staff and student needs, a budget deadline and issues surrounding the school's block schedule system.

But his biggest…MORE

Chief Sealth High School can now be called a "world school" since receiving approval to host the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program, rigorous college prep curriculum for 11th- and 12th-graders.

Operated by a nonprofit educational…MORE