King County News

Neighboring cities on opposite sides of the Snohomish-King County line find themselves in the unusual predicament of fighting to control a future neighborhood's waste water.

The Greater Maple Valley Unincorporated Area Council held its monthly meeting on July 7. The main topics this month were public safety, King County Community Service Areas, and King County roads issues and solutions.

A contingency of the Zone 3 Fire Explorers and Advisors will be heading to the campus of Indiana University in Bloomington, Ind.

On Thursday , Metropolitan King County Councilmember Dave Upthegrove handed over the keys of an eight-passenger van to the City of Des Moines Parks, Recreation & Senior Services Office to transport low income residents, children and seniors to local and county wide activities.

King County councilman Reagan Dunn will hand over the keys to three "retired" King County Metro vans on Tuesday to Vine Maple Place , the Tahoma School District Transitions Program, and Real Life Church of Covington.

This morning, I checked Sound Transit's website on what help there is for disabled persons who need wheelchair or other assistance to get to or from the airport and downtown Seattle via light rail.

Cured/Not Cured : "A baby girl in the US born with HIV and believed cured after very early treatment has now been found to still harbor the virus," reports the BBC .

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.