Kingsgate News

In a city that has forbid card rooms within city limits, the gambling tables have turned.

For some, the Fourth of July is full of excitement with loud bangs and bright colorful explosions.

The Washington State Boundary Review Board for King County has cemented the Kirkland City Council's decision to move forward with annexation.

Police said a man has robbed the same Kingsgate-area bank four times since January.

A bank robber who held up the Chase Bank this morning in the Kingsgate neighborhood has hit the same bank four times since January, officials said.

Former State Rep. Toby Nixon of Kirkland's 45th District has found a new direction in public life.

Longtime Kirkland City Councilwoman Mary-Alyce Burleigh announced this week that she will not seek re-election to a third term.

A raging fire has destroyed a Kingsgate home, video from Chopper 7 shows. The video shows firefighters from Bothell and Kirkland spraying water on the home as flames consumed the roof.

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A public hearing for Kirkland's proposed annexation of the Kingsgate, Upper Juanita and Finn Hill neighborhoods will be held by the state's Boundary Review Board for King County on June 8, 7 p.m. at Lake Washington Technical College.

Up or down. Left or right. A decision will usually only go one way or the other.

At its last meeting, the Kirkland City Council approved pursuing annexation of the Potential Annexation Areas of Finn Hill, Juanita and Kingsgate.

The Kirkland City Council voted to start the process of annexing an area north of the city with 33,000 residents.

A backyard brawl is brewing between the city, which wants to annex neighbors to the north, and long-time residents who don't want any part of it.

Kirkland's City Council met Monday night to be briefed on how much it would cost to annex a large swath of unincorporated King County north of the city line.

Under pressure as a key deadline approaches, The Kirkland City Council announced annexation is back on the agenda next week and added a special April 6 meeting to consider absorbing several neighborhoods presently north of city limits.

Prosecutors filed charges Tuesday against two local men for the targeted robbery of several Hispanic businesses on the Eastside and in Snohomish County, including two in Redmond, over the past three months.

Robert Frost Elementary students ask for communitya s help to outfit library in Kenya and complete project.

A Kirkland carjacking suspect was treated at Harborview Medical Center Saturday night after crashing on I-5 southbound in a high-speed attempt to evade police, tying up traffic for hours.

To annex, or not to annex: that is the question a ' the strung-out, interminable, never-ending, Kirkland question.