King County News

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.

New Medicaid enrollments are coming in faster than people buying insurance coverage through Washington's Healthplanfinder.

A newborn baby found dead Feb. 12 by the side of a road in North Bend will be buried Saturday.

The question of whether Williams L. Phillip Jr. or someone else killed city of Kent employee Seth Frankel in 2010 at his Auburn home dominated the opening statements Monday at the retrial of Phillip just as it did last year at his initial trial.

The 14th annual Wacky Wheelays will be held at 12:45 p.m. on July 13 at Lake Washington High School in Kirkland and many Northshore organizations have signed up to take part.

The Washington Native Plant Society and the cities of Kenmore, Kirkland, Mercer Island, Sammamish, Seatac and the King Conservation District are offering ecological restoration stewardship training this spring.

KOMO reports surveillance video shows Natalie Hulme talking with the driver Feb. 28 then jumping into her truck and driving away as the mother pounds on the windows.

The Queen Anne Community Council and the Magnolia Community Club will have a joint meeting on Thursday, March 13, to discuss bus-service cuts in the neighborhoods.

Finance professionals, business owners, veterans, and one former Valley nurse among them, seven applicants for King County Public Hospital District's open Position 3 seat aired their ambitions Thursday night, March 6, in open interviews with the board.