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Burien Little Theatre's 2006-2007 season opened last weekend with the French comedy Art by Yasmina Reza.

BLT's opening production is a success, thanks to both a wonderfully humorous script and admirable acting. As modern art-lover Serge,…MORE

Bartell Drugs in downtown Burien will move to a new store not far from its current location next year.

Wesbild Shopping Centers, owners of Burien Town Plaza (formerly Redwood Plaza), will build a state-of-the-art facility for Bartell Drugs…MORE

Road crews on Ballard Avenue will be a common site for the next few weeks as the city of Seattle makes repairs to fractured sidewalks along the historic shopping district. Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) has begun making the repairs…MORE

Instead of a monorail station, the Junction could be getting a new eight-story building with commercial space on the ground floor and 110 residential units above.

Harbor Properties presented preliminary plans for the multiuse project to…MORE

Former Kennedy High School football standout Mike Utley is one person who can't be slowed down.

With help from Kennedy, Utley and his foundation preparing to put on the fourth annual DAM2DAM "Thumps Up!" bike tour.

The event, which…MORE

A student chooses to make a mirror as a class project.

She goes to a lumber warehouse for advice and buys a framed mirror at Home Depot.

Then she tears out the mirror and creates her own customized framed mirror.

"At Big…MORE

Thanks in part to popular new attractions, the Woodland Park Zoo is boasting its highest attendance ever for July, preceded by its best attended June in more than a decade, said Jim Bennett, communications and marketing director for the zoo.…MORE

Editor's note: Many objections have been raised in recent months about the potential annexation by the city of Burien of the North Highline unincorporated area. Recently, the Times/News submitted a series of questions to Burien council members…MORE

The Employment Security Department says it has reshaped its employer-auditing program as part of its efforts to make the unemployment-insurance system more equitable for employers across the state.

The department is now focusing its audits…MORE

The adult smoking rate in Washington has dropped to 17.8 percent, which is the fifth-lowest smoking rate in the country.

Adult smoking in Washington has dropped by 21 percent since the state began its comprehensive Tobacco Prevention and…MORE