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A gravely ill two-year-old boy is recovering at Seattle Children's Hospital after receiving the Berlin Heart, a mechanical heart designed specifically for children.

The boy, called Angel, is the first child under five in the Northwest to…MORE

Detours and lane restrictions during the coming years of construction work to replace the Alaskan Way Viaduct will smack Ballard's maritime and fishing industries harder than it will affect other maritime interests south of the viaduct.

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Some important distinctions were left out of an article in the Feb. 21 edition about the city's proposed changes to multifamily development zones.

The proposed increase in height limits would be 5 feet, not 10.

The city proposes…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

Seattle Public Utilities has saved about $76 million over the past two years - bringing more than $10 a month in savings for residential ratepayers.

Utilities' "asset management" policies are based on the best practices of the world's best…MORE

The West Seattle Democratic Women's Club has established a $500 scholarship available to one graduating student from West Seattle High School and to one graduating student from Chief Sealth High School in the coming academic year.

To…MORE

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

A native Londoner with an engineering background in failure analysis of airplane crashes turned a century-old, three-story log building near Beach Drive into a large modern home with heated floors and wireless Internet connections.

Chris…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