King County News

Cascade will send nearly 100,000 kits to homes in its service area throughout the Eastside and South King County.

Anyone who is currently uninsured can get financial and health security by enrolling at the Washington Healthplanfinder website.

A flag waves atop the Bellevue Youth Theatre under construction near the Crossroads Community Center.

The King County Prosecutor's office confirmed via e-mail to Examiner that the teen accused of gunning down a North Seattle man for his cellphone last month is scheduled for arraignment Monday in a case that neither Washington CeaseFire - which is running a new anti-gun bus billboard campaign - or the Washington Alliance for Gun Responsibility has ... (more)

The Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle is urging people to sign up for health insurance, with an event Saturday at the Miller Community Center.

Carnation's new police officer is back. Scott Allen, who got his first job in law enforcement 17 years ago with Carnation's police department, is once again patrolling the city, this time as both a King County Sheriff's Deputy and Carnation's dedicated full-time cop.

A 53-year-old Kirkland man was arrested Friday after he struck and killed a woman in her 20s in the Inglewood neighborhood of Kenmore.

A horse sanctuary, a senior center, neighborhood events, clean-up campaigns, and local youth groups are among 27 projects and organizations that will receive Community Engagement Grants through King County's Community Service Area program.

The King County Council is considering legislation that would establish a minimum wage for the county's 12,000 employees as well as its contract workers.

Six Mercer Island High School students could soon face charges after a drinking party turned into a high-priced burglary.

The 33-year-old man was shot in the 4000 block of A Street Southeast at 10:16 p.m., according the Auburn Police Department.

King County Councilmember Larry Phillips says he plans 600,000 hours of bus service cuts, many targeted at people living in poor neighborhoods, unless voters agree to increase some of the county's most regressive taxes.

King County Sheriff's detectives are asking for the public's help identifying a man who they believe is responsible for two recent bank robberies.

White Center Heights Elementary kindergartners and first graders working on their community helpers module in class got a very special set of visitors March 13th when a Fire Engine from North Highline Fire District, an ambulance from American Medical Response, MJ Olmstead from the King County Sheriffs Office, and King County Sheriff's Guardian1 ... (more)

King County Sheriff's Office detectives are looking for this man seen Thursday in connection with a robbery at a Chase Bank in Covington.

A new school devoted to helping nonprofit infants and children with special needs opened in Bothell March 3, as a part of the Northshore School District.

Stellar J workers Jess Hibdon and Oscar Gonzalez clean on March 11 construction-related sediment from a stormwater vault along Park Lane.

A Maple Valley man accused of killing his fiancA©e's 5-year-old son in a drunken driving wreck has been charged with vehicular homicide.

Mike Stroble, left, facilities manager of the vacant K2 building on Vashon Island, stands in what was once a meeting room for the ski company's creative team.

Six siblings who said they suffered 2½ years of physical abuse and neglect while living with a family friend will get a combined $8 million from Washington state as part of a legal settlement reached this week.