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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

If the North Highline Unincorporated Area Council was hoping for guidance from the public, it didn't get much at a Nov. 21 "listening session" at Evergreen High School.

Public testimony indicated that deep divisions remain among community…MORE

With monorail off Seattle's list of potential modes of mass transit, the remaining contenders to serve the western side of the city are streetcars, buses, and light rail.

Sponsored by the Sierra Club at the REI store downtown, the transit…MORE

Atop a hill on a scenic stretch of road in White Center sits a very purple and very different kind of wedding chapel.

For more than 40 years, locals and people from all over the world have come to AA Vagabond’s Enchanted Chapel to get…MORE

Instead of repairing the weather-worn totem pole at the Admiral Viewpoint, it will be replaced next spring with a new "story pole" featuring a localized design.

The existing totem pole is a 39-year-old replica of a totem pole from Canada.…MORE

Last week marked the 50th anniversary of a fiery military plane crash in the Boulevard Park neighborhood of North Highline. Twenty-seven people died in the crash.

Five years ago, kids playing in an abandoned lot found metal scraps. They…MORE

Concerned business and property owners around Leary and Ballard Avenues Northwest may have won their battle with Teutsch Partners, a development firm who plans to build a 150-unit assisted living and retail development, the Ballard Landmark Inn,…MORE

Seattle voters' defeat of the monorail is affecting the public debate over how the North Highline area should govern itself in the future.

Without the monorail tax, the cost of being a resident of Seattle is comparable to the tax expense…MORE