Burien News

Riders will enjoy existing levels of bus service next year despite the recessionary drop in the sales tax revenues that support Metro, as a result of actions by the King County Council to reprioritize property tax revenues and set a small fare increase for 2011.

A Burien community program has offered a $1,000 reward to find whoever hit and critically injured Jeff Kearney in a White Center crosswalk Tuesday.

Scientists have determined that - by frying their rice - the Chinese are shrinking Greenland glaciers at a rate of 1.037649 inches per year.

The Burien Planning Commission will conduct a public hearing on proposed zoning for the North Highline annexation area on Tuesday, Nov.

A bar fight at closing time Nov. 12 led to the death of one man. A second victim was taken to Harborview with stabs wounds.

A fare increase in 2011 and setting new priorities for property tax revenues will allow Metro to maintain existing levels of bus service next year despite the recession, following action Monday by the King County Council.

Guy Harper is a retired citizen who resides in Gregory Heights and is a nationally respected wood carver, working with red cedar to create Northwest Indian art.

It's the middle of winter in the Washington cascades, and in a mountain pass town a mysterious visitor arrives at a small hotel just before a winter storm blocks the path both ways.

A couple accused of importing an illegal cosmetic device and then bribing a federal official to let them use it in their Burien beauty salon has pleaded guilty to the charges.

It's a deadly, if familiar, progression of events: drinking leads to a confrontation, the confrontation leads to fisticuffs and fisticuffs to tragedy not limited to but including murder.

One man has been killed and another seriously injured in a stabbing at a Burien bar.

Sure, we've come to expect intramural fighting within the Des Moines Council, but who figured there would be just one disputed council race in Burien and all-out warfare in SeaTac? Last election, the SeaTac incumbents all ran unopposed.

A man and his ex-wife accused of broadcasting live online the rape of a 4-year-old girl pleaded not guilty to all charges in court Monday.

A 16 year old Tukwila teen accused of robbing another teen at gunpoint has been charged as an adult.

On Nov. 21, Burien Arts will hold its second annual 20/20 Vision fundraiser and art sale at the Karuna Arts Yoga Studio in Burien from 6:45-10 p.m. The fundraiser features the work of twenty artists who created twenty works of art in a variety of styles and media.

Encouraging lawmakers "not to give up on downtown, not to give up on Urban Partners and not to give up on Burien real estate," two Los Angeles developers have presented a proposal to build a 10-screen cineplex in Burien's Town Square.

Federal Way Municipal Court Judge Michael Morgan, who has been the focus of investigations over how he managed court employees, was losing to Seattle prosecutor Rebecca Robertson on Tuesday night.

Fueled by outrage over the current city administration, a proposition to institute popular election of a strong mayor and a slate of three candidates took on SeaTac city government in the Nov.

A 16-year-old Tukwila teen accused of robbing another youth at gunpoint has been charged as an adult.

Board members for the Seahurst Environmental Learning Center appeared before the Burien city council Oct.