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The Highline School District’s $148 million bond has been officially certified by King County Elections as approved by voters.

Final totals showed 64.46 percent (11,410) of Highline voters approved the bond while 35.54 percent (6,292)…MORE

Fifty years ago next week, my mother told me, or I heard her tell someone else, that one of our neighbors, a pilot, had died when a commercial plane crashed between Des Moines and Maury Island

April 2, 1956, was typical of those gray, low-…MORE

An update on the anticipated fiscal impact that annexation of the North Highline unincorporated area would have on Burien was presented to city council members March 20.

The update will serve as a benchmark in future city deliberations…MORE

The Des Moines City Council voted 4 to 3 on March 23 to award $90,000 to four former city council members to cover legal fees they incurred while in office.

Mixed emotions laced with resentment towards former council members Richard…MORE

The Seattle Department of Transportation might want to redesign the Junction's midblock crosswalks when it repaves California Avenue this summer, but city transportation officials don't plan to add parking pay stations or change the Junction's…MORE

King County prosecutors have filed charges against Tony Dale Green for the robbery of Irma Andrews in the Green Lake area on June 9 last year and crimes committed against several other victims.

Andrews, 90 years old, died on August 27 from…MORE

Sylvan Way, one of West Seattle's most vital east-west arterial streets, remains closed while workers replace much of the street's road base after encountering unstable soils under the street when they tried to hook up a sewer line.

A few…MORE

The Seattle School District Community Advisory Committee began the complex task of recommending which K-8, alternative and elementary schools to close, consolidate or relocate at their first meeting Monday, March 20. Some members feared their May…MORE

The recent spate of teen-on-teen robberies was a major topic at last week's meeting of the West Seattle Community Safety Partnership at the Southwest Police Precinct.

A group of approximately 20 parents and community members expressed…MORE

Peace activists met at Ballard's Trinity United Methodist Church on Monday, March 20, to read aloud grim, often-contradictory descriptions of the war with Iraq. The meeting was one of 42 held in cities around the world to coincide with the third…MORE