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Overlooking Puget Sound, the bluffs along Shilshole Bay from Golden Gardens to Carkeek Park are unstable and prone to landslides. On Thursday, January 6, a four foot high retaining wall above the railroad tracks running along the shoreline failed…MORE

Suzy Preston took it off -- took it all off. All 95 pounds. More than 10 million television viewers can vouch for this.

A recent winner on NBC’s hit program The Biggest Loser, the 29-year-old Des Moines resident was not camera shy.

Mayor Greg Nickels was in Ballard last week promoting a number of initiatives for the beginning of his second term in office. The viaduct replacement, in all its permutations, has dominated recent headlines but the mayor's biggest push last week…MORE

The Times/News presents a weekly summary of actions on bills by Highline-area legislators.

For complete information, go to www.WashingtonVotes.org -- a free, non-partisan website with plain-English explanations of bills and a record of…MORE

Margaret Toomey, daughter of Denis Toomey of West Seattle has been named to the Grinnell College Dean's List for the 2005 fall semester. Toomey is a theatre major. Toomey is one of 267 students honored for outstanding academic achievement by…MORE

The Northwest Burn Foundation recently honored the North Highline Fire District as its “2005 Fire Department of the Year.'

“This is the second time in five years that the fire district has been honored with such an award with the first…MORE

Tom Weeks of West Seattle has joined the board of directors of People For Puget Sound, a citizens group dedicated to protecting and restoring Puget Sound.

Weeks is the former Monorail board chairman, Seattle City Council member and Seattle…MORE

The Washington Legislature was “remarkably productive' for a short session this year, especially on health-care issues, according to Sen.

The Highline School District's $148 million bond issue has passed on its first try.

With all votes cast at polls in the March 14 election and most of the absentee votes counted, 64.35 percent (11,311) of Highline voters approved the bond…MORE

There’s an old joke that you’ve probably heard that goes, “What do fish and house guests have in common? They both start to stink after two days.'

Be careful if you found yourself laughing at that punch line. It could mean that misery…MORE