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Residents of White Center and the North Highline area would get slower fire protection service from Seattle than they get now from the North Highline Fire District or the district that covers Burien.

That was one message to a crowd of…MORE

Mayor Greg Nickels didn't buy the new financial plan for the monorail, calling for a fifth vote and moving to deny the proposed elevated transit system the use of city streets.

In an extraordinary Saturday meeting, the Seattle Monorail…MORE

While some West Seattle residents worry about the noise of potential Southwest Airlines passenger jets flying along two sides of West Seattle, the airline CEO said water would reduce the noice from its planes.

Gary Kelly, chief executive…MORE

Chopping the cost of the Green Line from a ridiculed $11 billion to $7 billion puts the monorail project back into the "realm of reasonableness," said Cleve Stockmeyer, a member of the Seattle Monorail Project board of directors.

Two weeks…MORE

Six Highline public schools did not make "adequate yearly progress" during the last school year as defined by federal standard..

The designation is based on test scores from the Washington Assessment of Student Learning (WASL) taken by…MORE

Despite an appeal by an outraged grandmother concerned that her grandson's mind would be "polluted" by the appearance of the word "damn" in a book, the Federal Way School Board voted to keep the book in the classrooms.

At the September…MORE

After studying the latest financing plan for the monorail, John Haley, the new director, recommended continued pursuit of the project and called for completion of a contract by the end of December.

The monorail board of directors…MORE

An eight-year-old Boulevard Park boy was seriously injured when he was struck by a pickup truck Sept. 10.

According to King County Sheriff's deputies, the vehicle struck the boy while he was riding a bicycle near the intersection of First…MORE

Members of the Greater Des Moines Chamber of Commerce learned last week that the local business organization may merge soon with the Southwest King County Chamber of Commerce.

Business communities in Burien, SeaTac and Tukwila already are…MORE

Got Aim? Battle for prizes and bragging rights at DeVry University's Laser Tag Competition.

Participants will be placed in teams for action-packed matches in the university'sparking garage, complete with obstacles. Must be at least 16…MORE