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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

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

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

Highline’s first newspaperman has died.

Vance Orchard passed away March 7 in Walla Walla from cancer diagnosed just a week earlier. He was 88.

Mr. Orchard first started writing news stories for the Highline High School newspaper.…MORE

Suzy Preston took it off -- took it all off. All 95 pounds. More than 10 million television viewers can vouch for this.

A recent winner on NBC’s hit program The Biggest Loser, the 29-year-old Des Moines resident was not camera shy.

Overlooking Puget Sound, the bluffs along Shilshole Bay from Golden Gardens to Carkeek Park are unstable and prone to landslides. On Thursday, January 6, a four foot high retaining wall above the railroad tracks running along the shoreline failed…MORE

The Times/News presents a weekly summary of actions on bills by Highline-area legislators.

For complete information, go to www.WashingtonVotes.org -- a free, non-partisan website with plain-English explanations of bills and a record of…MORE

Mayor Greg Nickels was in Ballard last week promoting a number of initiatives for the beginning of his second term in office. The viaduct replacement, in all its permutations, has dominated recent headlines but the mayor's biggest push last week…MORE

The Northwest Burn Foundation recently honored the North Highline Fire District as its “2005 Fire Department of the Year.'

“This is the second time in five years that the fire district has been honored with such an award with the first…MORE

Margaret Toomey, daughter of Denis Toomey of West Seattle has been named to the Grinnell College Dean's List for the 2005 fall semester. Toomey is a theatre major. Toomey is one of 267 students honored for outstanding academic achievement by…MORE