Medina News

With Fourth of July just around the corner, it's time to celebrate. But, please, not with private fireworks.

If you plan to travel between Seattle and the Eastside on Sunday morning, you'd better check your traffic because several roads will be closed for the Seafair Marathon.

MAIL: When the Government Accountability Office announced that it supported Boeing's tanker protest on Wednesday, a host of politicians quickly fired off their reactions to reporters' inboxes.

A rental car, apparently lost in the area, was traveling northbound in the 3600 block of Evergreen Point Road when it veered off the roadway and struck a large rock, Medina police report.

Medina police are investigating an early-morning car crash and fire on the Evergreen Point Road today.

But what's the impact of video games on our culture? Also: The United States has only five percent of the world's population, but nearly a quarter of all the prisoners.

George and Kim Brace were pioneers in 1996 when they moved from Medina into a downtown Bellevue high-rise. "For the first four years, we were the only people on our floor," George Brace, 67, said.

A 17-year-old Islander got a headache and small cut above his eye after he was in a head-on collision in the intersection of S.E. 42nd Street and 85th Avenue S.E. around 7:30 a.m. on May 23.

Tacoma Art Museum invites Seattle's Tudor Choir to perform works by Renaissance composer Thomas Tallis on Saturday, July 12, at 6:30 pm.

This grand and important event is to benefit the victim's and their children of domestic violence.

I learned a new word this week: NIMBY. As in Not In My Back Yard. As in A A Aoethe NIMBYs donA A A t really have a good reason why they donA A A t want this project, they just know they donA A A t want to be ... via Kirkland Courier

Posted today at 9:42 am by Rick Anderson Bummed out by your property tax bill this year? Bill Gates may be too, although he can assuage himself by filling one of his rows of bathtubs with C-notes and diving in. via The Daily Weekly

I'm not sure why Bill Gates brought so many A-list journalists this year to his annual shindig for business leaders to yack about the future of technology. via The Seattle Times

“They do not have in their budget money for drug research, so the really sad thing is that hardly anything was being spent on malaria research, hardly anything was being spent on TB research or an AIDS vaccine”

Jeff Raikes will take the role of CEO of the Gates Foundation Sept. 2. Raikes speaks at the Unified Communications Server 2007 conference in San Francisco last October. via NPR

The Bellevue Philharmonic League will host the 8th Annual "Symphony of Gardens Tour" on June 29. via The Bellevue Reporter

“The world changed for us when we did the first Prius conversion”

Rich Stearns learns about the all-electric Acura that Bill Rowling, right, converted in his shop in Milton. via Wenatchee World

State Department of Transportation officials Monday gave members of the Bellevue City Council a look at the state's plan to replace a six-mile stretch of State Route 520, including the Evergreen Point Bridge, ... via The Redmond Reporter

“The nice thing about these versus honeybees is, number one, they don't have a stinger”

Local man trying to take sting out of bee shortage by CARRIE WOOD A disease that has killed off honeybees and devastated crop production along the West Coast has some Northwest farmers growing uneasy. via Kirkland Courier Reporter

“Nobody's here waving their checkbook around”

The Medina City Hall and police department have a choice view on the east shore of Lake Washington, with a waterfront park and dock. via The Seattle Times

Seattle's Kingdome imploding. When government swings the wrecking ball Plans for Seattle Center, the University of Washington and the Capitol Campus in Olympia suggest that public agencies, like private ... via Crosscut.com