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A petition campaign to ask the King County Council to provide funding for a King County Sheriff's gang unit is underway.

"We hope to complete the drive by early March," organizer JoAn Cox said last week.

Mrs. Cox is the mother of…MORE

The Federal Way Police Department wants to inform city residents of a disturbing increase in the number of reported home burglaries over the past six years.

An analysis of the reports from 2001-2005 indicated a steady increase in…MORE

The Seattle Department of Transportation had to file an official public records request with the Washington State Department of Transportation to obtain a copy of a contractor's review saying there are no insurmountable problems with the city's…MORE

U.S. Weightlifting Team member Melanie Roach continues her quest for the 2008 Olympics on March 2 at the Arnold Sports Festival in Columbus Ohio.

Over 40 competitors will compete for just 15 spots on the World Team that will compete in…MORE

The year is 1919. The place is St. Louis. The setting is a modest family home in an era before electricity and telephones were common conveniences. The cast of characters includes a God-fearing mother and her four daughters.

Sounds just…MORE

Burien City Council members voted unanimously on Feb.

Updated results from King County Elections last week showed that 60 percent of SeaTac voters wanted the discharging of personal fireworks to remain illegal in the city.

Voters overwhelmingly rejected a new fireworks ordinance that was…MORE

SeaTac lawmakers decided on Feb. 13 to join about 30 other cities in appealing a stormwater permit recently issued by the state Department of Ecology.

The Burien City Council voted to join the appeal process on Feb. 12.

SeaTac…MORE

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HB 1116

Creating a plan to increase the homeownership rate to 75 percent by 2020.

By a vote of 65 to 31 on Feb. 12, the House approved HB 1116, which would require the…MORE

A standing-room-only crowd spilled into the foyer at The Hall at Fauntleroy in West Seattle for a recent "town hall meeting" about King County's response to the mid-December wind and ice storms.

Highline and West Seattle were hit harder…MORE