She has never competed in a pageant before, but 22-year-old Kristen Tateishi didn’t let that keep her from winning this year’s Miss Seafair crown.
When Kathy Burns Rosen found the letters in a trunk in her mother’s attic stacked on top of her old college keepsakes, she sat down and her eyes filled with tears.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the City of Tukwila are conducting repair work over the next few weeks on two sections of Green River levee that were damaged in the November 2006 flooding.
Repairs to the popular Cedar River Trail – damaged by heavy floods nearly two years ago – means a portion of the trail will be closed for approximately six weeks.
The heat of the summer is reaching its peak this month, just as grass, downed branches and trees and other vegetation are drying out – creating the perfect conditions for wildfires.
Fifteen students in the computer network technology program at Renton Technical College (RTC) recently took CompTIA (Computing Technology Industry Association) exams.
Helping children excel is Sari Pascoe’s passion.
Master Chung’s students at Renton’s Black Belt Academy havea raised $520 from a garage sale to benefit Renton Area Youth and Family Services (RAYS).
Everything was a go for the switching of southbound Interstate 405 lanes to the Oakesdale Bridge Southwest starting on Friday.
The family of a man who was stabbed in Issaquah last Friday is from Renton.
Sometimes, a guy just doesn’t want to let his gold Lincoln-Continental Navigator go, even if it’s being repossessed.
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The Renton History Museum has been awarded a $10,000 Heritage Cultural Education grant by 4Culture, the King County arts and heritage funding agency.
Omar Vazquez 19, of Renton was recently selected to receive a fellowship from the Institute for International Public Policy, a program funded by the U.S. Department of Education and administered by the UNCF Special Programs Corporation.
The King County Bar Association has rated nine candidates for judicial election as “exceptionally well qualified” for contested positions on the King County Superior and Washington State Supreme courts. An additional 12 judicial candidates appearing on the Aug. 19 primary ballot also received ratings.
A group promoting freedom for Tibet, which is now part of far western China, will hold a “Light Protest” around the world, including in Renton, on Thursday.
The owner of a pub in the 1300 block of Union Avenue Northeast and a customer had to jump to safety when a customer earlier banned from the pub tried to hit them – twice – with his vehicle, according to Renton police.
For these workers, the tools of their trade are four stomachs and mouths like leather.
Oh, and by the way, they only have bottom teeth.
About 100 goats have been munching their way through about a third of a mile of a hillside along Perimeter Road at the Renton Municipal Airport.
Travel on southbound Interstate 405 through Renton next weekend will slow considerably as the state moves traffic to a new bridge over Oakesdale Avenue Southwest, part of a state project to widen the freeway.
