Des Moines News

Fireworks sales have already begun and the Fourth of July holiday is fast approaching.

The Federal Way Symphony Garden Tour lineup has been announced. The annual event will help support the upcoming 2009-2010 season and takes place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. July 18.

Three Kent men, a Des Moines man and a Federal Way man were sentenced Friday to prison terms by U.S. District Court Judge John C. Coughenour for their involvement in growing marijuana.

A diver was killed in an accident at Redondo Beach in Des Moines on Sunday afternoon.

Five family members from South King County were all sentenced to federal prison Friday for their roles in an extensive marijuana-growing operation using each of their homes as indoor gardens.

On a vast wooded area that sat empty for years, a mountain biking trail was built.

Hundreds of gallons of doughnut glaze pours out onto a hillside near Highway 99 in Des Moines after the driver of a tanker truck loses control and the truck overturns.

Gallons and gallons of white, sticky glaze spilled out on the side of Highway 99 in Des Moines, Washington, about 20 miles south of Seattle.

TK421 - You forgot a very important place that you cannot open carry... or even carry at all.

The Covington City Council is considering beefing up its city laws regarding dangerous and vicious dogs.

A candidate for Everett City Council and active foe of illegal immigration was charged with theft after walking from a Quality Food Center... A Des Moines police officer shot and killed a suspected bank robber who charged him after being hit with a Taser Friday evening.

The people who run the medical marijuana clinics in Washington state control the supply and prices.

Another pathetic attempt at a shakedown... there are other shakedowns ongoing, where the accused are mostly conveniently dead and unable to defend themselves.

The Coast Guard has presented its Silver Lifesaving Citation to one of its own who dove into Puget Sound nearly a year ago to save a 76-year-old motorist whose car had plunged off a sea wall along the Des Moines, Wash., waterfront.

Not all stimulus packages are coming from the government these days. Out Today , a Bellevue-based company that specializes in plumbing, heating, and electrical work, is offering a monthly giveaway of $2,500 in services for one applicant who can't afford much-needed repairs.

Local homeowners trying to sell their homes are caught up in an $18 million mortgage fraud scheme.

A major sewage pipe on Bainbridge Island continued to spill tens of thousands of gallons of raw waste into Eagle Harbor on Sunday, a day after rupturing, and a city official said the line can't be fixed until Tuesday morning.

In a unanimous vote Tuesday night, the King County Library System's board of trustees endorsed a plan to keep Vashon's branch library at its current location in Ober Park.

Jim Delvin of Des Moines, WA writes : Coping crown molding with an electric jigsaw is much easier when you attach a radiused auxiliary base to the jigsaw's standard flat base.

I find this rather creepy to be honest. I have no problem with religion. If it is used properly and kept in check too.