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Months after the Seattle Department of Parks and Recreation decided to implement the Loyal Heights Playfield Improvement project, which will add synthetic turf in place of natural grass and additional lighting, some Ballard residents have…MORE

Late last September, after sending out mailers and doorbelling, Burien City Council candidate Rose Clark thought she had all the issues down.

But, the newly elected councilwoman observed recently, she was wrong.

“Annexation of North…MORE

At least 14 development projects with a total value approaching a quarter of $1 billion are in process in a 100 acre area around downtown Ballard. When these projects are finished, there will be at least 1500 new residential units, more than 1000…MORE

At approximately 7:00 p.m. on Sunday, December 4, a woman notified police that a man raped her at gunpoint in his vehicle near the 28800 block of Military Road in Federal Way.

The woman, in her twenties, claimed her assailant-a man she did…MORE

Shortly after five A.M. on November 17, the Federal Way Police received a 9-1-1 call from a woman at 30602 Pacific Highway South. The women said she had just managed to escape from being held hostage by an armed man in a nearby apartment and…MORE

If the North Highline Unincorporated Area Council was hoping for guidance from the public, it didn't get much at the "listening session" the council held last week at Evergreen High School.

Public testimony at the meeting showed there are…MORE

Businesses that cater to smokers are anticipating some loss of business while others plan to go with the flow.

Meanwhile, smokers in West Seattle and White Center bars, taverns, bowling alley and casinos should wish for warm, waterproof…MORE

The Seattle Public Library Board authorized the sale of two library properties in Ballard last week to private developers. The site of the former Ballard library was authorized for sale to Pryde Johnson Urban Development for $3.1 million.…MORE

In here it smells like Ivar's restaurant a few days after the power went out. The walls feel like wet broken glass. Your feet splash in cold, ankle deep water and they crunch and squish on a carpet of muscles, barnacles and anemones. When it's…MORE

Amid controversy over constructing a new headquarters fire station, SeaTac lawmakers postponed on Nov. 22 passage of the city's budget until their final scheduled meeting of the year.

The council's last regular 2005 meeting is set for Dec…MORE