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Travel will be up slightly this Memorial Day holiday despite high gas prices and increasing hotel costs, according to the American Automobile Association, which estimates that 38.3 million Americans will travel 50 miles or more from home this…MORE

Highline figures prominently in the Sound Transit 2 package proposed recently by the agency's board of directors.

If approved by voters, the Sound Transit 2 package, which carries a $10.9 billion price tag, would be financed through a…MORE

Beware on Alki Avenue Southwest on May 25 because for the first time since its inception, Washington's Click it or Ticket campaign will take to the nighttime hours.

More than 75 law enforcement agencies throughout Washington will be out…MORE

SeaTac lawmakers have decided to proceed with construction of a headquarters fire station in McMicken Heights.

Earlier, the council approved preliminary design plans including the purchase of four homes for the expanded station.

But…MORE

Dow Constantine has filed legislation to protect the right of county residents to cast a secret ballot.

"The right to cast a secret ballot is guaranteed to all citizens by our state Constitution," said Constantine, King County Council…MORE

Burien's annual Strawberry and Arts Festival June 23-24 will feature a new 5K run and walk this year to benefit the Ruth Dykeman Children's Center and the WhiteWater Aquatics Club.

The Burien-based Ruth Dykeman Center is a longstanding non…MORE

The North Highline Unincorporated Area Council represents about 31,000 White Center and Boulevard Park residents, but only one in a thousand of them bothered to vote in the election of the community's lone elected body.

There will be four…MORE

Local radio legend Bill Wippel of Normandy Park has been tapped to receive the Susan Hutchinson Bosch Award from the Western Washington chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.

Wippel will receive the honor at the Western…MORE

Circle Dynamics a new group offering workshops that empower school-age children of divorced parents has opened in the Greenwood area.

The company was started by Erin Byrnes, a counselor at Foster High School in Tukwila and Tanya Salmi, a…MORE

The city of Seattle hopes the threat of heavy fines will pressure negligent landowners to follow the rules.

A new program, called "Clean up Your Act," will increase fines for landlords and property owners who refuse to repair run down…MORE