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Two Highline School District teachers and a staff member at Camp Waskowitz are among King County’s 2006 Earth Heroes at Schools award winners.

The award winners are Fred Ritsema, a teacher at Bow Lake Elementary in SeaTac; Sara Esrick at…MORE

The 1,430 members of the Federal Way Educational Association (FWEA), the labor group representing teachers and certified staff district wide, will be seeing a slight increase in wages, in addition to gaining some respite from an ever-mounting…MORE

The King County Housing Authority (KCHA) is accepting applications for their Housing Choice Voucher program waiting list. The deadline for applying is Tuesday, May 9.

Applications are available at the Federal Way Multi-Service Center at…MORE

People cut new trails through the issue of North Highline annexation during a recent public forum discussion over whether the unincorporated community should join Burien or Seattle.

Could Burien afford to devote money to improvements in…MORE

When Maggie Palm returned to her job as a sixth grade teacher at Illahee Middle School after spring break, colleagues passing her in the hall offered their congratulations.

Palm was mystified until she learned the reason for the goodwill:…MORE

SeaTac voters will decide Sept.

After deliberating for more than four hours last week, a SeaTac Municipal Court jury found Vili Fualaau guilty of driving under the influence of alcohol.

A sentencing date will be set following a presentence investigation.

Fualaau,…MORE

Booster seats have been proven to protect children from serious injury, yet new research shows that in some communities fewer than 21 percent of children 4 to 8 years old are properly secured in booster seats when they ride in cars.

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Kacey Hogan, has been named to the dean's list at the University of Washington for winter quarter 2006. To qualify for the dean's list, a student must be taking at least 12 graded credits and have a grade point average of at least 3.50 out of 4…MORE

In what one transit manager referred to as 'routes on steroids', King County Executive Ron Sims has a plan to get more buses in and out of Ballard.

Sims announced the plan, called Transit Now, on April 18. The executive is proposing a one-…MORE