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The Burien Planning Commission voted 6-1 Nov. 29 to recommend the Burien City Council not designate North Highline as a "potential annexation area."

"I do not believe Burien is ready," said Planning Commissioner Barbara Williams.

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The North Highline Unincorporated Area Council decided last week to formally recommend that voters approve annexation to Burien -- two days after the Burien Planning Commission yanked away the welcome mat.

Nine members of the North…MORE

A strategic part of Ballard’s economy will continue its historical operation as U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-Wash) announced the full restoration of funding for operation at the Ballard Locks in 2006, last Friday afternoon.

The Locks were…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

Amid controversy over constructing a new headquarters fire station, SeaTac lawmakers postponed on Nov. 22 passage of the city's budget until their final scheduled meeting of the year.

The council's last regular 2005 meeting is set for Dec…MORE