For the second year in a row, the City of Renton has received a Well City Award from the Association…
The bear captured Monday afternoon in the Highlands probably has made Renton his home for much of his life, says the man who led the effort to catch him.
The male bear was full of surprises.
Original estimates placed him at about 175 pounds. But he is really about 350 pounds. And he is much older that earlier thought, probably seven or eight years old.
The Hazen softball team lost to Bonney Lake 10-0 May 14 in the sub-district tournament. The Highlanders’ season is over…
The Renton City Council Monday night decided not to move forward with issuing 10-year bonds to build two new Renton libraries until after it gets more public input on the matter.
Mayor Denis Law at the meeting cited the recent shooting at the proposed downtown library site at the Big 5 sporting good store and council member absences from upcoming meetings as reasons to delay any decision.
The opening of the Seattle International Film Festival in Renton is Friday, with an opening night screening and gala to kick…
At the suggestion of Mayor Denis Law, Renton City Council members may delay a vote on whether to move forward…
The Renton City Council will decide Monday night whether to move forward with an $18 million bond issue to pay…
The following information was compiled from City of Renton police reports. An argument over a line-up at a gas station…
A 14-year-old Renton boy was shot Tuesday evening in the parking lot of the soon-to-close Big 5 sporting goods store,…
The City of Renton will beef up police presence in and around the Renton Transit Center to help control unruly and criminal behavior.
The initiative to add three officers to the downtown core is part of a continuing effort by Mayor Denis Law and the Police Department to help the public feel safer downtown. Police are adding the patrols to a long horizontal area bordered on the north by South Second Street, on the south by South Third Street, on the east by Main Avenue and on the west by Rainier Avenue.
Renton FilmFrenzy and the Seattle International Film Festival will present the SIFF-Renton Preview FilmWalk, 7 p.m.-9 p.m. Wednesday, May 11….
Del Mead, president of the Renton Clothes Bank, calls it her “Little Shop of Miracles,” because of the people who have come through for the clothing and the other items she’s able to provide to the community. She had one more note to add to her list of miracles Thursday afternoon, as the Renton Kiwanis Club stepped in to provide much-needed funding to the Clothes Bank.
The Friends of Renton Schools second annual Launching Lifetime Learning benefit breakfast last Thursday has raised about $180,000 so far,…
Despite a late afternoon shower, crowds gathered in the downtown Renton Piazza Saturday for the Spring Festival and Poker Run…
More than 500 people turned out for the Renton High School Centennial Celebration on Saturday. Former and current faculty, alumni,…
Following are the stories that appeared in the Renton High School Centennial special section that first appeard in the April…
By TERRI BRIERE One of my mentors – former mayor and alumni Don Custer – relates he sees Renton High…
Imagine being in high school during the start of World War II or the sock-hopping late ‘50s or during the…
Cecilia (Carey) Major is 99 and still active in the Renton High School alumni group. Tracey Compton, Renton Reporter Not…