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The multimillion-dollar debt accumulated by the failed Seattle Monorail Project is expected to be paid off by next fall, so the Monorail Board voted to terminate the motor vehicle excise tax paid by Seattle residents sometime between August and…MORE

Ed Penhale, a communications director for two governors and an ex-Highline Times editor, passed away March 24.

Mr. Penhale graduated from the University of New Hampshire, where he was editor of the school paper. He then worked for a year…MORE

Seattle has joined with King County and Burien by signing an agreement to approach the incorporation of the North Highline Unincorporated Area in a cooperative way.

The memorandum of understanding was signed by Mayor Greg Nickels, County…MORE

SeaTac lawmakers, acting on two controversial matters March 28, authorized rebuilding the McMicken Heights fire station and changed zoning to allow a student health clinic at Tyee High School.

Four neighboring residential properties will…MORE

The Seattle Monorail Board OK'd the sale of a West Seattle property last week that will knock about $2 million off the defunct project's debt.

The Monorail Board unanimously approved a purchase-and-sale agreement for Harbor Properties to…MORE

The Burien City Council awarded on March 27 the contract for the long-awaited $26.2 million First Avenue South Improvement Project to Frank Coluccio Construction of Seattle.

Work will begin this spring and is expected to be completed no…MORE

One of West Seattle's main employers, Services Group of America, plans to move to Arizona, according to press reports over the weekend.

The company did not return repeated telephone calls or e-mail messages to confirm or explain the move,…MORE

Burien, Seattle and King County formally joined together last week to reach a cooperative annexation solution for the North Highline unincorporated area.

With their March 31 accord, they agreed to work together for annexation of the entire…MORE

Fifty years ago next week, my mother told me, or I heard her tell someone else, that one of our neighbors, a pilot, had died when a commercial plane crashed between Des Moines and Maury Island

April 2, 1956, was typical of those gray, low-…MORE

An update on the anticipated fiscal impact that annexation of the North Highline unincorporated area would have on Burien was presented to city council members March 20.

The update will serve as a benchmark in future city deliberations…MORE