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At least 14 development projects with a total value approaching a quarter of $1 billion are in process in a 100 acre area around downtown Ballard. When these projects are finished, there will be at least 1500 new residential units, more than 1000…MORE

Seattle City Councilman Richard Conlin will lead the Council as president for the two year term, 2006 to 2007.

Conlin, who chaired the Council's Transportation Committee for the past four years, has four priorities for his term as…MORE

As the state's economy grows stronger and more people are finding work, many community colleges are experiencing lower enrollment, according to the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, but expansions of departments at…MORE

While the North Highline Unincorporated Area Council was recommending joining Burien, and the Burien Planning Commission was saying no, attendees of a community forum on annexation expressed interest in joining Seattle.

Saturday's forum at…MORE

At approximately 7:00 p.m. on Sunday, December 4, a woman notified police that a man raped her at gunpoint in his vehicle near the 28800 block of Military Road in Federal Way.

The woman, in her twenties, claimed her assailant-a man she did…MORE

Shortly after five A.M. on November 17, the Federal Way Police received a 9-1-1 call from a woman at 30602 Pacific Highway South. The women said she had just managed to escape from being held hostage by an armed man in a nearby apartment and…MORE

If the North Highline Unincorporated Area Council was hoping for guidance from the public, it didn't get much at the "listening session" the council held last week at Evergreen High School.

Public testimony at the meeting showed there are…MORE

Businesses that cater to smokers are anticipating some loss of business while others plan to go with the flow.

Meanwhile, smokers in West Seattle and White Center bars, taverns, bowling alley and casinos should wish for warm, waterproof…MORE

The Seattle Public Library Board authorized the sale of two library properties in Ballard last week to private developers. The site of the former Ballard library was authorized for sale to Pryde Johnson Urban Development for $3.1 million.…MORE

In here it smells like Ivar's restaurant a few days after the power went out. The walls feel like wet broken glass. Your feet splash in cold, ankle deep water and they crunch and squish on a carpet of muscles, barnacles and anemones. When it's…MORE