Renton News

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A Renton man was charged today with homicide by watercraft and assault by watercraft in connection with Wednesday's Lake Washington boat collision that killed a Seattle schoolteacher.

RENTON, Wash. -- Families who lost almost everything in a massive apartment complex fire are struggling to rebuild their lives.

Renton firefighters on Monday surveyed the damage following a four-alarm fire Saturday afternoon at the Regency Woods apartment complex.

A sinkhole has been discovered and Monster Road will be closed in both directions from the Beacon Coal Mine Road in Renton up to 68th Avenue South/Martin Luther King Jr. Way in unincorporated King County.

Because people like to videotape their activities, a Renton Police officer seized as evidence a GoPro camera located after the arrest of a shoplifter.

About 40 residents have been displaced following a fast-moving fire in the Regency Woods development Saturday, but there were no serious injuries reported in the blaze.

Crews responded to a report of a commercial fire in the 1400 block of South 18th Street at about 2 p.m. Skyway fire officials initially said the fire was a two-alarm fire.

The IKEA corporation last week filed papers with the city to build a brand new, two-story store on the site of its current Renton store.

The National Weather Service is calling for cloudy skies today, Saturday, with a high near 76. Overnight, the clouds thicken with a 30 percent chance of showers and a low around 60. This week's weather photo comes to us from Robert Hess who grabbed this great picture of his grandsons, Henry Cooke and Leo Stevenson finding some relief from the heat ... (more)

Passengers on a sailboat told police they were slowly motoring with a low-power trolling motor after dark when a powerboat slammed into them Wednesday night on Lake Washington, according to a statement of probable cause released Friday by the King County Prosecutor's Office.

A 46-year-old Renton man will appear in court Friday afternoon for investigation of homicide by motorcraft in the boating death of a Seattle woman Wednesday on Lake Washington.

Maggie Breen, executive director of REACH, prepares sandwiches for the homeless men's program ARISE.

King County Solid Waste Division recently announced that four Renton businesses have been named to the 2014 "Best Workplaces for Recycling and Waste Reduction."

Fitch's performance expectation incorporates prospective views regarding commercial real estate market values and cash flow declines.

If you have to come back from the Eastside, besides Highway 520, another option is to take 405 to Renton, where it heads west and joins up with Highway 516, which you can take westbound to northbound Highway 509, which connects you with east West Seattle.

Pivot Point Consulting was revealed as the 2014 Eastside Fastest-Growing Private Company tonight after having increased revenue by 750 percent between 2011 and 2013.

Renton police have identified Tatanysha M. Hedman as a suspect in Wednesday's domestic violence incident in which a man was doused with gasoline and lit on fire.

Seattle police have arrested the driver of a motorboat that collided with a sailboat on Seattle's Lake Washington, killing a 24-year-old woman and injuring two others.

On Sunday the 29th of June I stopped for a bowl of clam chowder at the Ivar's Seafood Bar in Burien.