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Recently completed designs for the Town Square public park will be on display at a community open house on Wednesday, May 31, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.

The latest information and designs for streets serving Town Square and for the new City…MORE

Patti Calder's eyes welled up with tears as she spoke of the devastation she witnessed in Mississippi, fully nine months after Hurricane Katrina.

"Unless you've been there, you can't know what it's like," Calder told the Federal Way News…MORE

Adding sunshine and blue skies to the three-day Memorial Day weekend can equate ferry use to traffic backups on Friday afternoon and evening heading to your destination and again on Monday, as travelers head home. It's usually a good idea to pack…MORE

Members of Burien's Free Methodist Church will celebrate a century of service in the community this weekend.

Highlighting four days of special services and festivities will be the Rev. Matt Whitehead, Pacific Northwest Conference…MORE

Beginning August 1, the Washington State Patrol will start enforcing new Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration rules for securing loads.

The rules provide performance criteria for cargo securement to prevent articles of cargo from…MORE

As chairwoman of the Senate Health & Long-Term Care Committee, Sen.

An Alki woman was so distraught over the cutting of a western red cedar in her neighborhood that she called the city arborist, had the cutting stopped, and then climbed up into the tree with food and water for a daylong sit-in protest May 16.…MORE

The Burien Council approved on May 15 an additional $764,000 for the new City Hall/King County Regional Library project.

On April 24, city Finance Director Linda Gorton reminded the lawmakers prior to their vote, they agreed to add 2,600…MORE

Seattle Public Schools has released a list of preliminary closure and consolidation recommendations for the second year in a row. Four schools in the Northwest quadrant could either be closed down for good or moved to other buildings.

The…MORE

Manuel "Manny" Ventoza is a self-deprecating guy, a Shriner who likes cowboy boots and parks a camper in the driveway. He smiles often and effortlessly. Most of his Burien neighbors probably have no idea he's a war hero.

Memorial Day means…MORE