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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.

Last week…MORE

Burien residents are invited to learn more about their city at two community meetings that will be held in neighborhood schools.

These community meetings focus on the city's various programs and services, and not on any one topic.

A…MORE

Early morning Sept. 7, a Seattle Police Department SWAT team was sent to an apartment building near the southwest corner of Northwest 67th St. and 24th Avenue Northwest in search of a murder suspect. The police had received a tip from the…MORE

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

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

Times/News Correspondent

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

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

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.