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White Center has had various summer festivals over the years that offered a numbing array of events and competitions.

The first was a one-time event called the Great Fair held in early August 1923. It featured a carnival, a side show, a…MORE

White Center's eight-decade run of summer festivals will be broken this year due to volunteer burnout.

A group of five stalwarts, who've been instrumental in keeping July Jubilee Days going for the past 20 years, reluctantly voted to…MORE

Before putting away the paper, make a date for the annual Northwest Flower and Garden Show in Seattle.

This year, the show runs Wednesday through Sunday, Feb.

Discover Burien was expected to begin an internal investigation this week into a possible conflict of interest involving its executive director, Debra George.

Burien City Manager Mike Martin requested the investigation after council…MORE

The flu bug has hit three Highline-area schools hard in recent weeks.

At St. Francis of Assisi School in Burien, 150 students out of a total enrollment of 465 missed school on Feb. 6.

Farther south, 90 out of 384 Des Moines…MORE

The Washington State Department of Transportation will "complete a major rehabilitation of the Interstate 5 bridge" between Spokane Street and the I-90 interchange this summer.

This construction will significantly affect traffic near…MORE

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SB 5058

Establishing the eastern Washington state veterans' cemetery.

By a vote of 48 to 0 on Feb. 2, 2007, the Senate voted to approve SB 5058, which would allow the…MORE

The state House Democratic caucus elected Rep. Joe McDermott (D-West Seattle) to join their Leadership team as Caucus Education Policy Leader.

"I am honored to receive this new leadership responsibility," McDermott said. "It gives me the…MORE

The discharging of personal fireworks will remain illegal in SeaTac after voters on Feb.

Seattle City Light is urging its customers to be on guard against telephone con artists posing as utility bill collectors.

Recently, several customers reported that they received phone calls from people claiming to be City Light bill…MORE