On the ballot in Renton this year are the Mayor’s Office and five seats on the Renton City Council.
Last year for the sixth time, Renton was in the top 100 walks nationwide – out of more than 2,000 communities that participate.
A cougar was spotted coming down a hillside by a Renton Police officer late Monday morning in the 2100 block of Lake Washington Boulevard.
The following information was compiled from Renton Police Department case reports.
Renton CROP walks have raised more than $574,000 to help the hungry worldwide, with more than $143,000 going to Renton food agencies, according to local organizer Sharon Kenyon.
No firefighters or residents were injured in the fire at the River View Condominiums on the Maple Valley Highway at about 2:15 p.m., although pets were rescued. Arriving fire crews searched for occupants.
The 12K route starts at The Landing and travels north along the southeast shore of Lake Washington Boulevard and offers participants a unique opportunity to run around the Seahawks training facility, Virginia Mason Athletic Center. Runners return to Lake Washington Boulevard and travel south and the finish at The Landing. Read about impacts on traffic.
Approval of a new emergency radio network on April 28 will mean about 630 new radios for Renton’s first responders and more reliable communications.
Don Persson, 72, says the city has accomplished many “wonderful things” in the last few years and is on the cusp of finishing others, including revitalizing downtown, completing the new aviation education center at Renton Municipal Airport and completing the new Highlands Library and park.
A convicted felon from Spokane County was arrested Tuesday in a brutal home-invasion robbery in January that sent an elderly Renton couple to Harborview Medical Center with extensive injuries.
The following information was compiled from Renton Police Department case reports.
The 71-year-old told officers the transient had threatened him and the fight ensured. At one point the transient threw pebbles at him, then a large rock, which hit him in the head. The small rocks also struck a nearby car.
The Washington State Liquor Control Board sent letters in early March to the owners of Golden Dynasty Bar and Restaurant and the now-closed HomeRun Restaurant and Lounge, informing them of the board’s intent to not renew the establishments’ liquor licenses.
Cookie Marie Saovangxay listed her former residence, a house in the 2900 block of Cedar Avenue in Renton that she does not own, as available “for rent” on the Craigslist and Zillow websites, according to Renton Police.
In one case the burglars came through an unlocked sliding-glass door and stole car keys, a purse and a computer owned by Boeing, all without waking the residents or the dogs sleeping upstairs.
A man stopped for violating the rules by smoking a cigarette at the Metro Transit Center downtown March 6 was jailed after he was found in possession of a stolen gun and cocaine.
The three-vehicle collision occurred at about 6:40 p.m. at South Fourth Street and Main Avenue South. The driver of one of the other vehicles suffered minor injuries and was taken to Valley Medical Center, as was the injured officer, as a precaution.
Michael Chadd Boysen, the Renton man convicted in the 2013 killing of his grandparents, died on March 18 of natural causes at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla, according to the Walla Walla County coroner.
The following information was compiled from Renton Police Department case reports.
A 42-year-old man charged with raping a north Renton barista on Feb. 17 was returned from Idaho Tuesday and booked into the King County Jail in Kent.