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A new driveway is going in at the Ballard Food Bank and the forklift drivers won't miss the slipping and sliding they've put up for years.

The old driveway was steep with cracks that caught the wheels of the forklifts. Small smooth rocks…MORE

The Seattle School District is forming another community advisory committee, but this time the focus will be on building better alternative education programs, rather than shutting down schools.

The new committee was proposed by the…MORE

In a determined effort that lasted six months, Starbucks employees from all nine of the Federal Way district's stores, from Hoyt Road to Des Moines, volunteered monthly at the food bank, served at the agency's annual Crab Feed, and on other…MORE

The five members of the Federal Way board of education, acting on behalf of the entire district, have agreed to sue the State of Washington for no longer fulfilling its own mandate.

The Washington State Constitution declares it's the state…MORE

Blogging, instant messaging, profiles, and posting comments, may leave the average adult scratching their head, but to today's teenager, they're a vital part of communicating with friends.

In the last two years, social networking sites…MORE

Maybe pledges and vouchers is what it takes for a community to change its bad habits - at least that was the tactic King County Metro Transit used to push its alternative transportation program, Ballard In Motion.

The summer program…MORE

The Department of Ecology has fined the Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority (Sound Transit) $66,000 for water-quality violations along its light rail line under construction between Seattle and Tukwila.

Ecology also issued an…MORE

Less than a week after his unpopular proposal to merge two distinct school programs and close Roxhill Elementary was voted down by the Seattle School Board, superintendent Raj Manhas announced he'd step down next summer as the district's leader…MORE

Over a thousand recent patients at Swedish Medical Center's Ballard Campus are being advised to check their credit reports after the personal information of three people was stolen from the hospital.

According to Swedish Medical Center,…MORE

A group of Ballard residents who are tired of waking up in the morning only to find their car windows shattered and belongings stolen organized a community meeting last week to talk about a rash of car prowls in recent months.

The latest…MORE