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Tom Jovanovich was sworn in last week as a new commissioner of Water District 49.

Water District 49 provides service to downtown Burien and surrounding residential neighborhoods.

Jovanovich was appointed in August to fill a vacancy…MORE

Four groups opposed to annexation of North Highline by Burien have united their efforts against any attempt by the city to absorb part or all of the unincorporated area.

The Burien Residents Against Annexation Political Action Committee…MORE

The Miss Burien Scholarship Program announced last week that Janie Bakke has been named the organization's new executive director.

She succeeds Diane Kennish, who is stepping down after nine years of leading the program.

Bakke has…MORE

Five Burien City Council members say that they now favor designating the entire North Highline Unincorporated Area as a potential annexation area.

Council members voted 5-2 last month to target only two areas in the southern part of North…MORE

Three different designs for the future Junction Plaza were presented to the public last week and most of the 10 or so people in attendance preferred a plan with half of the site paved, the other half landscaped, crisscrossed by pathways and edged…MORE

A judge has dismissed the lawsuit brought by Northwest Animal Rights Network and two private citizens against Woodland Park Zoo and the City of Seattle.

In its lawsuit, the Animal Rights Network attempted to force transfer of the zoo's…MORE

As southbound traffic spills from the South Park Bridge onto 14th Avenue South, a mural is visible on the side of a discount food store in the neighborhood's business district.

Seattle Department of Transportation engineers are planning to remove one pedestrian crosswalk on Northwest Market Street and add another.

Next spring, the department could remove traffic lanes on 24th Avenue Northwest as well.

The…MORE

Citizens ponied up $6,000 to help pay for "traffic-calming" devices on 59th Avenue Southwest, the street that goes by Alki Elementary School and Alki Playfield, with tennis courts, Whale Tail Park and the Alki Community Center a soccer kick away…MORE

In the past few months, King County Metro Transit has closed some bus stops in West Seattle and has plans to relocate others that the Seattle Department of Transportation says pose safety concerns.

Most recently, the bus stop located at…MORE