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When Des Moines-area voters go to the polls in the Sept. 20 primary election, they will be asked if they want to merge Fire District 26 with the Federal Way Fire Department.

The proposal to combine the Des Moines and Federal Way…MORE

If Seattle doesn't get the $2 billion approved by the Washington Legislature to help replace the Alaskan Way Viaduct, the city will tear down the deteriorating elevated highway anyway because it is unsafe, said Mayor Greg Nickels during an…MORE

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As local political campaigns for the fall election heat up, many voters will notice changes in the King County Council districts.

Many of these voters also will find themselves in new districts.

One…MORE

The North Highline Unincorporated Area Council (NHUAC) will hold a community meeting Thursday, Sept. 15, to receive public comment on annexation .

The 7 p.m. meeting at St. Bernadette School, 1028 S.W.

The Burien/Normandy Park Fire Department (Fire District 2) will ask voters in the Sept.

In 1992, Angel Bolanos moved to Seattle from Ecuador without any ability to English speaking ability, but now he is running for a second time for the Seattle City Council.

He said in an interview last week that he will win the primary in…MORE

Dwight Pelz has spent the last eight years serving on the Metropolitan King County Council, but said he now wants to try his hand at the many "exciting decisions facing the Seattle City Council."

Besides the fact that Pelz' seat on the…MORE

Seattle City Councilman Richard McIver supports building a downtown waterfront tunnel to replace the Alaskan Way Viaduct, opposes the monorail, but supports a light-rail line to West Seattle.

McIver is running for his third four-year term…MORE

David Darling remembers riding in his dad's car as a youngster up Southwest 108th Street toward 12th Avenue Southwest and seeing the "big brick presence" of Mount View Elementary School at the top of the hill.

Today Darling is the…MORE

Imagine, for just a moment, that you're swimming a half-mile beside 650 other swimmers.

Flailing legs and arms crowd around you. Your lungs ache with a thirst for oxygen, muscles burn from the resistance of the opaque lake water.