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A functional and happy parent-to-child relationship comes from relating to and respecting your children, not controlling them.

This is the foundation of Sanity Circus, a seven-week parenting course coming to West Seattle this month.

The Washington Legislature went back into session this week and West Seattle's Sen. Erik Poulsen, focuses frequently on environmental issues, an arena where he has clout as chairman of the Senate Water, Energy and Environment Committee.

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Like a palette with an array of colorful pigment ready to express a painter's inspiration, the Youngstown Cultural Arts Center is about to change the West Seattle arts scene.

The grand opening of the four-story facility is planned for Feb…MORE

The city council career of Mike Park has become the closest thing to a political dynasty as ever existed in Federal Way's short history.

In a unanimous vote last Tuesday from the seven-member council, Park set a new first for the city with…MORE

Crown Hill will not be sprayed with pesticide to kill gypsy moths in 2006, according to the Washington State Department of Agriculture, though the department's Plant Protection Division will propose aerial spraying for approximately 100 acres of…MORE

Mark Stenberg died two days before his baby was born on New Years' Day.

Stenberg, a carpenter working at a construction site in Federal Way, was crushed by a falling wall around 9:30 a.m., on December 30, 2005.

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Indigo Fuhrman was born on December 30. As he came into this world, he brought with him a special present, 500 million stem cells to help fight the leukemia in his mother's body.

It has been a special Christmas for mother Roxanne Fuhrman…MORE

Waiting for a "gold plated" tunnel option to replace the endangered Alaskan Way Viaduct would be "irresponsible," says City Councilman David Della.

After a resolution was adopted in support of Mayor Greg Nickels' preferred tunnel option…MORE

Eric Winiecki trusts his son Leo. But it's his bubbly and inquisitive toddler Eva that could pose a risk to his newly finished replica of Sandro Botticelli's famous painting, "The Birth of Venus." (See photo, Page 1)

"I know it's just a…MORE

While we wrap up another memorable year in Federal Way, the staff of the Federal Way News decided to look back on a prosperous year in the city's history and sift through the archives of our stories from 2005. From the city's decision to buy 80-…MORE