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Monorail officials are feeling their way in the dark as they try to find how to kill the government agency that once planned a monorail line through West Seattle.

Apparently there are no instruction books explaining the procedure for…MORE

Several bar and club owners in the area have joined a city-wide lobbying group to fight a proposed Seattle ordinance that would force nightclubs to get a special license and follow stricter noise and safety requirements.

Pete Hanning, a…MORE

Some West Seattle bar and restaurant owners say they are opposed to a draft proposal from Mayor Greg Nickels that would force establishments to get a special nightclub license and meet stricter noise and safety requirements.

Some also say…MORE

About 30 other protesters picketed the Crown Hill Safeway store on 15th Avenue NW and NW 83rd street last Friday, August 18. The protest took the form of a mock funeral for the neighborhood's "Pedestrian designation," a reference to a…MORE

High levels of marine biotoxins that cause paralytic shellfish poisoning have been detected at concentrations above the safe level in shellfish samples throughout King County. As a result, the Washington State Department of Health has closed all…MORE

Funding for four high school police officers was included in a $161.3 million general operating budget approved Aug. 9 by Highline School Board members.

Superintendent John Welch earlier had proposed removing funding for the school…MORE

The Ballard Elks Lodge No. 827 has started a fundraising campaign to pay for a new deck overlooking Shilshole Bay at their Seaview Avenue headquarters.

The club needs to raise $40,000 to build the 470-square foot deck. It will have room…MORE

If you need a place to hold a birthday party or other event, the Ross Shelterhouse is now available in Ballard.

The Ross Shelterhouse held its grand re-opening after going through extensive improvements. A community meeting room was…MORE

Boat building in Ballard is on an upswing thanks to a $600 million contract awarded in part to Kvichak Marine, for constructing the Coast Guard's next generation of patrol boats.

Kvichak will partner with Wisconsin-based Marinette Marine…MORE

On a recent steamy day in Izabal, Guatemala, dentists loaded a compressor, generator, boxes of supplies and folding dental chairs in a Mitsubishi double cab four-wheel drive truck and headed out for their day's work.

Setting up a mobile…MORE