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After recently proposing a cooperative effort with Seattle and King County on the possible annexation of North Highline, the Burien City Council brought that plan closer to reality March 6.

In January, Burien lawmakers directed staff to…MORE

Since 1924, when Highline High School in Burien opened, it’s been a “comprehensive” high school.

Students would take various courses, moving between classrooms with a different teacher in each one.

Over four years, a student could…MORE

An extended-day kindergarten targeting the district’s most struggling beginning students is a success, Highline School Board members were told March 8.

District staffers identified low-achieving students at the district’s half-day morning…MORE

2006 supplemental budget. By a vote of 55 to 43 in the House and 29 to 19 in the Senate on March 8, the legislature approved SB 6386. The finalized 2006 supplemental budget adds $522 million in spending, raising the total 2005-07 biennium budget…MORE

Two Irish transplants, Mick Purdy and Adrian Kelly, are gearing up to introduce Burien to a bona fide St. Patrick's Day celebration.

Co-sponsored by Discover Burien Association and Mick Kelly's Irish pub, co-owned by Purdy and Kelly, the…MORE

Today he's a shadow, but don't be surprised if soon others are following his lead. Anthony Hogan, a freshman at Todd Beamer High School, asked Sen. Tracey J. Eide, D-Federal Way, if he could follow her for a day in Olympia. She had sponsored his…MORE

Unless you live in Paris or Prague, it's not often that the characters in a major opera are singing about your hometown.

In the current production of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte at the Seattle Opera, which first premiered in…MORE

A surveillance video shows a violent attack against a female patron at an Alaska junction bar last week. After she rebuffed a man, he belted her in the jaw, knocking her unconscious. Another woman was also bruised in the attack as she fell to the…MORE

Through tears of mourning and frustration, Gretchen Davis continues to search for answers.

Gretchen and her family want to know who, and more importantly why, someone in their neighborhood shot and killed their beloved dog, Sally, with a…MORE

Medical malpractice. By a vote of 82 to 15 on Feb. 28, the House approved HB 2292. The bill takes a number of approaches to the medical malpractice issue. A medical provider's apology or statement of fault will not be admissible as evidence. A…MORE