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The city of Des Moines is updating its Shoreline Master Program (SMP).

The plan, required by state law, establishes goals and policies for managing the city's shoreline resources.

Since it was first developed in 1988, Des Moines'…MORE

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For two weeks, volunteers in Burien donated and sorted goods for the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Three full semi-trucks and 2,000 miles later, those supplies are in San Antonio, Texas, bringing evacuees a measure of…MORE

It was with a feeling of pride and accomplishment that I paged through Lori Hinton's new guide book, "West Seattle 101."

I feel gratified that what we started three years ago is actually a great guide book and available to the public.…MORE

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

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

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

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