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A usually quiet council chambers erupted with the voices of 150 people, many of them demanding answers to the growing number of questions stemming from the tragic story of Mooie, a three-month-old pit bull puppy scalded by chemicals.

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After graduating from college, many students launch their careers.

But Amber Johnson, fresh with a bachelor’s degree in literature from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, realized her educational journey must continue.

“After…MORE

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

Band parents and students from Tyee High in SeaTac protested on March 22 a decision to schedule band after school.

Speaking before the Highline School Board, parents said the principals at the Tyee campus had informed them that band…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

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

The 15-member 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 last week.

Some members feared their May 26 deadline…MORE