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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

Alki's miniature Statue of Liberty - weather-worn, cracked and vandalized - might soon be recast and re-enshrined with commemorative pavers and a new plaza at Alki Beach.

Northwest Programs for the Arts, which stages the Seattle Music…MORE

The fourth annual Washington Wine Restaurant Awards, hosted by the Washington Wine Commission and the Seattle Times, honored West Seattle's Salty's on Alki with two top honors, the coveted Restaurant of the Year and Sommelier of the Year awards…MORE

Qualifying for this year's state National Geographic Bee for the second year in a row, Schmitz Park Elementary fifth grader Sean Keller will compete tomorrow in the state championship, to be held at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma.

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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

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.