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The City of Federal Way Parks Department closed the West Hylebos Wetlands Park today - for the first time in its history - in order to repair damage from the recent winter storms.

The boardwalk has been damaged by falling and leaning trees…MORE

The Saltwater Park Bridge on Marine View Drive in Des Moines is expected to be closed for six months. During the big December windstorm, a tree fell onto the south approach retaining wall causing significant damage. Traffic is being detoured…MORE

The Highline School District took another step on Jan. 10 towards requiring a third year of high-school math for graduation.

Board members accepted the first reading of the requirement change. They will vote on it at a later meeting.

Burien council members began the new year by focusing on the city's response to last month's major windstorm that left most Highline residents without power for days.

Lawmakers, who heard from Burien/Normandy Park Fire Chief Mike Mars and…MORE

The line at the Twin Lakes catered buffet table looked significantly longer than normal. The popular Federal Way Chamber of Commerce membership luncheons typically draw a sizable crowd, but none quite like the one that showed up at the Twin…MORE

Police in Des Moines received criticism when they convinced the city council to adopt an ordinance that limits their response to local burglar alarms.

But new data shows the changes have greatly reduced false dispatches and, as a result,…MORE

New radiography (x-ray) and fluoroscopy equipment that produces real-time digital fluoroscopy for contrast studies is now in use at Southwest Medical Imaging on Highline Medical Center's main campus in Burien.

Fluoroscopy studies include…MORE

Persons interested in supporting this year's Relay for Life will have a chance to learn more about the national fundraiser at a 7 p.m. Kick-Off Party in Burien on Tuesday, Jan. 23.

The party at Highline Medical Center's Somers Auditorium,…MORE

Proposition 1 and 2 would replace expiring levies passed by voters in 2001 and 2004; a $398 million capitol bond and a $338 million education and operations levy.

Whittier Elementary School Principal Alex Coberly has been charged with one count of indecent exposure in a criminal misdemeanor complaint by the Seattle City Attorney's Office last week.

The criminal complaint filed in the Municipal Court…MORE