King County News

King County's Solid Waste Division recently announced that 97 local companies have been named to the 2014 "Best Workplaces for Recycling and Waste Reduction" list, including 6 businesses/offices in Federal Way.

Measles cases are up dramatically from last year and that has the state warning of an outbreak.

The August 5 primary election is fast approaching and it is the first graded test of the political season for candidates.

Attorney Todd Maybrown says the charge was dismissed July 3 after investigators learned the woman had previously falsely claimed she had been raped by an ex-boyfriend.

The King County Sheriff's Office is currently hiring 9-1-1 communication specialists and will be holding a recruiting workshop at the station in Renton on July 12. On Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon, interested applicants may attend a workshop to learn about the hiring process, training, expectations and more.

The King County Department of Assessment has started mailing real estate valuations that will help set what taxes you pay on your property in 2015.

Aut-3715: "Two human skulls prepared for clinical use that were donated to a Bellevue, Wash., thrift store.

John "Jack" Ciliberti, the former medical director of the emergency department at Overlake Hospital Medical Center, was identified by the King County Medical Examiner as the victim in a Cessna 182 plane crash in Fall City Tuesday.

The young teenage girl and her boyfriend were at the door of the Public Health Center a half-hour before it opened at 8 a.m. on a Monday, Nurse Practitioner Carol Tanaka recounted to the Auburn City Council this week.

From left, Kyung Ku Lee, Jedy Gillespie, Swaraj Pandey, and Jingying Lu are sworn in as naturalized U.S. citizens.

Chateau Ste. Michelle is Washington's largest and oldest winery. It has been in Woodinville since building the French-style manor in 1976, essentially creating a wine industry in northeastern King County.

Record number of students make pledge for free college : A record-breaking 96 percent of eligible students in South King County signed up this year for the Washington College Bound Scholarship, a program that guarantees free in-state, public college tuition to students who maintain at least a 2.0 GPA and avoid getting into trouble with the law ... (more)

Officials responded to a number of holiday-related emergencies over Fourth of July weekend, including an accident during the annual hydroplane race around the island.

William Hayes is up for nomination to be the new director of the King County Department of Adult and Juvenile Detention.

Natural gas was a factor in an April 25 explosion that destroyed three buildings on North Bend Way, but it was an accident, according to a report coming from the King County Fire Investigation Unit.

A Spanaway man once convicted of salacious sex crimes involving an under-aged girl in Pierce County now is accused of attempting to hire a 15-year-old girl for kinky sex in King County.

The King County Sheriff's Office Crime Blotter is both a description of a small selection of police incidents and a statistical roundup of all calls to the Northshore area that are dispatched to on-duty officers.

Prior experience: First elected in 1996, Smith now is the ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee.

Two Seattle firefighters and a woman were each charged today with fourth-degree assault and malicious harassment for an alleged attack on a homeless man who was sleeping on a memorial to fallen firefighters in Seattle's Occidental Park in March, according to the Seattle City Attorney's Office.

A Seattle contractor faces charges that he defrauded homeowners, including some in Renton, who paid him more than $45,000 to upgrade their bathrooms and kitchens, and do other home renovation projects.