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Sunday 29th January, 2012

    • Redistricting plan getting minor tweaks

    The News Tribune

    OLYMPIA – State lawmakers are looking to make only minor technical adjustments to the new redistricting plan. The state House unanimously approved those tweaks Friday. Lawmakers can’t ...

    • Crowded JBLM posted highs for DUI, misdemeanor crimes in '11

    The News Tribune

    With a full base for the first time in a decade and more soldiers stationed here than ever before, Joint Base Lewis-McChord last year recorded new highs for misdemeanor crimes and for offenses ...

    • Pierce County standards for pay during storm varied by worker

    The News Tribune

    During this month’s snow and ice storm, Pierce County Executive Pat McCarthy decided to pay about 2,000 county workers their normal pay for the two days she ordered them not to report to ...

  • Walls of Discovery Bay cafe yield amazing $10,316

    KOMO 1000

    Carl "Fat Smitty" Schmidt counts some of the $10,316 removed from the walls of his Discovery Bay cafe, Fat Smitty's. (Photo by Charlie Bermant, Peninsula Daily ...

  • Former KOMO Newsradio reporter arrested in Oakland protest

    KOMO 1000

    Police move in on Occupy Oakland protesters on Oak Street and 12th Street as tear gas gets blown back on them in Oakland, Calif. on Saturday, Jan. 28, ...

  • Seattle Symphony pays tribute to 007 themes

    The Seattle Times

    7:30 p.m. Thursday, 8 p.m. Friday, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday, and 2 p.m. Feb. 5, Benaroya Hall, 200 University St., Seattle; $17-$93 (206-215-4747 ...

  • Department of Corrections remembers slain corrections officer

    The Seattle Times

    MONROE, Wash. — Washington's Department of Corrections is remembering slain officer Jayme Biendl on the anniversary of her death. Biendl was strangled by inmate Byron Scherf in the ...

  • AK hearing to be set for attempted espionage case

    The Seattle Times

    ANCHORAGE, Alaska — U.S. Army officials could decide in February when to schedule a court hearing for an Alaska-based soldier charged with attempted espionage. Army officials say 22-year-old ...

  • WA measure aims to slow down spread of E-Verify

    The Seattle Times

    SEATTLE — In Olympia, it's not all that often that immigrant advocacy groups and farmers are on the same side of a proposed bill. But the unlikely allies have teamed up this session to ...

  • Police Beat: Customers can be unruly; throwing food at them isn't a solution

    The News Tribune

    The drive-thru trainee broke the first rule: Never throw food at customers. Location: a burger joint in the 6700 block of Sixth Avenue. The customer, a 31-year-old man, rolled up to the squawk box ...

  • Mount Rainier National Park asks visitors to watch for missing

    The News Tribune

    Officials are asking Mount Rainier National Park visitors to look out for clues related to four people missing there since mid-January. The park is handing out fliers telling visitors to report any ...

  • Clean Air Agency ends Stage 1 burn ban for Pierce County

    The News Tribune

    The Puget Sound Clean Air Agency canceled Saturday evening a burn ban issued for Pierce County the day before. The agency reported that forecasters expected winds last night and tonight that should ...

  • Local photographers snap winning nature images

    The News Tribune

    There were four winners from the South Sound in the 2011 Northwest Exposure photo contest held by Washington Trails Association. The winners of the ninth annual contest were announced in the ...

  • It's open! Sprinker ice rink back from the brink

    The News Tribune

    Head bobbing and fists pumping the air, Pierce County Executive Pat McCarthy steered a big Zamboni ice-resurfacing machine through a red ribbon at Sprinker Recreation Center on Saturday, officially ...

  • College presidents wary of Obama cost-control plan

    The Seattle Times

    WASHINGTON — Fuzzy math, Illinois State University's president called it. "Political theater of the worst sort," said the University of Washington's head. President Barack ...

  • Tacoma priest ends 2-week protest fast

    The News Tribune

    A Tacoma priest and peace activist best known for breaking into a nuclear submarine base in Kitsap County has ended a two-week fast that drew sharp concern from some in the local faith and peace ...

  • State GET program may not cover cost

    The News Tribune

    Washington universities won authority last year to vary undergraduate tuition rates according to what different degrees really cost. But before they start charging engineers more than English ...

  • Pow! Presidential race goes to moon

    The Seattle Times

    The record shall reflect that, in the 2012 presidential campaign, the shark was officially jumped at 9:25 p.m. EST Thursday. That's when Reuters — placing itself at grave risk of being ...

  • Winning numbers drawn in 'Hit 5' game

    The Seattle Times

    OLYMPIA, Wash. — The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Washington Lottery's "Hit 5" game were: 06-20-24-25-35 (six, twenty, twenty-four, twenty-five, ...

  • Portland hands Seattle 8-3 loss; Everett edges Prince George 4-3

    The Seattle Times

    Sven Bartschi and Brendan Leipsic each had two goals and an assist to lead the Portland Winterhawks to an 8-3 victory over the Seattle ...

  • Seattle filmmaker finds herself in her Tanzanian family

    The Seattle Times

    Eli Kimaro and her brother, Kunda, mug from inside the family car in this snapshot taken by their mother in the late 1970s, when the Kimaros lived in the Washington, D.C., ...

  • An elevated Seattle view from Denny Hill, ca. 1873

    The Seattle Times

    THEN: The still forested First Hill, upper left, and Beacon Hill, center and right, draw the horizon above the sparsely developed north end of Seattle's residential neighborhood in 1872-73. ...

  • Seattle Pacific men edge Western Oregon, 61-58

    The Seattle Times

    Scott Morse hit the go-ahead three-pointer with 5.6 seconds on the clock and converted two free throws with 1.2 left to play Saturday in Seattle Pacific's 61-58 men's basketball victory ...

  • How Your U.S. Lawmaker Voted

    The Seattle Times

    FDR prayer By a vote of 386-26, the House on Tuesday sent the Senate a bill (HR 2070) requiring the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., be engraved with the "Let Our Hearts Be ...

  • McGilvra PTA contract over, but large donations live on

    The Seattle Times

    Last year, Seattle Public Schools gave $60,000 to a group of parents at McGilvra Elementary to — in essence — stop them from donating so much money. Still, parents say they will ...

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Seattle’s Department of Transport has plans to improve the Mercer Corridor or Mercer Mess as it is known to many residents of the city, Seattle news media have been reporting on the plans for some time, but a groundbreaking ceremony now marks the beginning of the major project.

The Mercer Corridor was built over forty years ago when the city’s transportation needs and traffic volumes were entirely different to present day. Mercer Street is a primary artery for the city of Seattle and over 80,000 people drive along it every day, but because of increased traffic and inefficient infrastructu ... more


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