King County News

"Shouldn't you be going after the serious criminals instead of kids who skip school?" they ask.

The housing authorities of Bremerton, Grays Harbor County, Yakima, and Chelan County and the City of Wenatchee participated in assuring the preservation of a total of 337 homes within the various communities.

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Three men are now charged in what's been dubbed the "My Gun's Bigger" robbery attempt at Highland Park's Morning Star Market .

A SWAT team had an unarmed Russell Smith cornered in a dead-end street. Next week a jury will be asked: Should he have died? After Russell Lydell Smith was shot to death in his car outside his Columbia City home in March by a Bellevue SWAT team, Seattle Police, who were also on the scene, said the officers were forced to shoot because Smith seemed ... (more)

The former executive director of the Senate Democratic Campaign Committee was sentenced this afternoon to 25 1/2 months for embezzling up to $330,000 in campaign contributions to fuel his alcohol and gambling habits.

King County Executive Dow Constantine said he is ready to look for another way to fund Metro bus service in the county if the state Legislature does not pass a stateside transportation package.

One commute note so far this morning - King County says it's canceling the Vashon Water Taxi runs because it's too windy.

Permits are available to cut Christmas trees now through Dec. 24 in the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest.

The field of contenders for Democratic State Chair rose to five on Monday, as the party's longtime executive director Jaxon Ravens declared his candidacy.

Washington state's most populous county is closer to narrowing the types of crimes that would hold immigrants in county jail at the request of federal immigration authorities.

This photo provided by Washington Department of Corrections show Samuel Kenneth McDonough.

At a packed meeting of the King County Metropolitan Council on Monday, Jen Boon president of the Redmond Ridge residents association, spoke out against pot sales in Redmond Ridge.

Big drug manufacturers have sued the King County Board of Health over a new disposal program that makes them pay the costs for getting rid of unwanted medications.

In any consideration of agrarianism, this issue of limitation is critical. Agrarian farmers see, accept, and live within their limits.

According to a report from the King County Sheriff's Office, at about 9:20 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 30, a sheriff's deputy was conducting an area check of a trailhead near the 17000 block of the Northeast Duvall-Monroe Road.

A spokesman for the King County prosecutor's office, Dan Donohoe, says they'll ask for high bail to hold Samuel Kenneth McDonough in jail.

As a journalistic enterprise, we always like our stories to have a news hook. So, given that the holiday season is upon us, and that Giving Tuesday - the national philanthropic antidote to Black Friday - is tomorrow, we figured it was a good time to ask you, our readers, to consider making an end-of-year donation to support Crosscut's nonprofit ... (more)

It's that time of year again - the Burien Tree Lighting Festival will be held starting at 5:30 p.m. this Wednesday, Dec. 4 at the large Fir tree at the Economy Wiring store located at 633 SW 148th Street in Burien.

As a Redmond Ridge father of two elementary school kids, I am writing to express my strong opposition to and demand a "no" vote to zoning ordinance 2013-0472 , scheduled for hearing and vote tomorrow .