Late last month a steep stretch of hillside gave way on Luana Beach Road, and authorities are taking steps to ensure they are ready if it worsens.
King County officials who will work with islanders to update Vashon’s town and community plans this year will kick off the process with a public meeting Thursday evening.
Washington State Ferries officials will come to Vashon next week and discuss a range of topics relevant to island ferry passengers.
Vashon’s fire department is facing a leadership transition
Vashon HouseHold, the island’s affordable housing developer, will begin preliminary work at a site on Bank Road this week
Members of a local environmental group are launching an effort to enrich the soil in the food bank’s newest garden and grow food there this summer while working to reduce Vashon’s waste stream.
King County may begin charging a fee to homeowners with septic systems in an effort to fund an oversight program and improve water quality in Puget Sound.
A gruesome disease has decimated sea star populations between Alaska and Mexico in recent years, and a new study has confirmed suspicions
A 7-year-old Vashon boy remained in serious condition in Harborview Medical Center’s intensive care unit on Monday after being hit by a pickup truck last week in the Thriftway parking lot
The building will be closed, but some of the agency’s services
will remain available
A 7-year-old boy remains at Harborview Medical Center after being hit by a pickup truck Wednesday evening in the Thriftway parking lot.
Some 70 years after it happened, Mary Matsuda Gruenewald recalls the day her brother left Wyoming’s Heart Mountain War Relocation Center, a concentration camp for Japanese Americans, as one of the saddest times in her family’s life.
In the ongoing legal dispute over control of the historic Mukai house and garden, the nonprofit group Friends of Mukai will go to court again next week.