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Burien council members unanimously approved on Feb.

Some Crown Hill residents are trying to convince the city to expand a proposed pedestrian zone to stop potential construction of auto-oriented businesses, which they said could destroy the community's chance of becoming a pedestrian friendly zone…MORE

About a mile and a half of California Avenue is scheduled for repaving this summer, from the Admiral District to the Junction and major changes to lanes and crosswalks.

Before they start work, representatives of the Seattle Department of…MORE

Parents in the Highline School District could track their child's grades, homework assignments and attendance over the Internet if voters approve a proposed $148 million bond on Tuesday.

The bond needs a 60 percent supermajority yes vote…MORE

On Tuesday, March 2, the City of Seattle and State of Washington hosted an open house so visitors might come to understand the worth of replacing the Alaskan Way Viaduct with a tunnel. In the Seattle aquarium, across from the viaduct, people…MORE

Seattle City Council member David J. Della introduced legislation that calls for the Parks Department in conjunction with a new skateboard park advisory task force to develop a comprehensive skateboard park plan for Seattle. Della worked with…MORE

Ninth and tenth grade students at North Highline's Evergreen High School are beginning to get a more personalized education by joining the school’s “small learning communities.”

The learning communities are designed to curb low graduation…MORE

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Alternatives to the WASL

By a vote of 33 to 10 on Feb. 10, the Senate approved SB 6475. The bill would establish three alternative ways of assessing student performance and aptitude.

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, high school kids flocked to the northwest corner of Pacific Highway South and Kent-Des Moines Road to dance at the Spanish Castle.

Soon, lease payments from a new Walgreen Drug Store at the site will help…MORE

With the proposed Fauntleroy Place project planned for one of West Seattle's most prominent intersections, a member of the West Seattle Design Review Board wondered how come architects didn't design an attention-getting architectural feature that…MORE