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Gubernatorial candidate Jay Inslee shakes hands Thursday with student leaders at Talbot Hill Elementary School

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Candidate Inslee calls for innovation in unveiling school plan in Renton

Using Renton's award-winning Talbot Hill Elementary School as his backdrop, Jay Inslee, Democratic contender for governor, said Thursday…

The Renton Public Library has stood over the Cedar River on Mill Avenue for decades.

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The legal pros, cons of library initiative | Read the opinions

The Renton City Council tonight will consider Mayor Denis Law's recommendation that the council decline to place on…

Sally Johnson points to a bullet hole  next to the front door of her home on Park Avenue North. There’s a similar hole in the blue house next door. Sally and her husband Dale hope a fence will keep crime

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Police efforts pay off in neighborhood | Making a stand in North Renton

There’s a sense, from residents such as Sally Johnson, from the Police Department and Mayor Denis Law that…

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UW Medicine leadership expects all parties will adhere to alliance, says spokeswoman

The elected commissioners of Public Hospital District No. 1, citing a legal opinion in their favor, want to…

Attorney Ann Mahony helps convicted murderer Curtis Walker take fingerprints Wednesday after he was convicted of first-degree murder in the death of 12-year-old Alajawan Brown of Skyway. In the background are Alajawan's parents

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Curtis Walker gets 50 years for murdering 12-year-old Alajawan Brown

In photos and a home video, Alajawan Brown grew up in front of Superior Court Judge Richard Eadie,…

Ground was broken Tuesday on the final phase of the Rainier Avenue improvement project by

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Work to begin in April on final phase of Rainier improvements in Renton

Work will begin in April on a $16 million, two-year project that will complete major improvements to Rainier…

Gary Ridgway

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Advanced DNA technology may help identify three Green River Killer victims

The remains of three victims of Green River killer Gary Ridgway may finally yield their identities

A ‘patient’ coughs repeatedly as she’s triaged outside the Emergency Department at Valley Medical Center in Renton Wednesday during a regionwide test of medical response to a terrorist attack.

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Terrorist attack tests hospitals’ ability to respond to mass casualties

The countywide exercise, coordinated by the King County Health Care Coalition and Harborview Medical Center, was designed to…

Alex Pietsch is the head of the new Governor's Aerospace Office.

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Renton’s Alex Pietsch to head Governor’s Aerospace Office

A key City of Renton official who has helped guide the city's growth and development for more than…

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Three injured in head-on collision on Martin Luther King Jr. Way

Three people were injured in a head-on, four-vehicle collision Tuesday night on Martin Luther King Jr. Way on…

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Two-alarm fire damages paper-shredding company in Renton; Tukwila responds, too

A two-alarm fire damaged a paper-shredding and recycling company Tuesday night at 710 Powell South in the south…

Betty Richards gets a cut from her daughter Judy Ford during one of her Friday morning visits to Center Coiffures

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Center Coiffures: 50 years of story-telling, perms, friendships

Center Coiffures is marking its anniversary this month, even though its lineage goes back a little earlier, to…

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Renton chamber signs final deal to buy new HQ building downtown

Three Renton Chamber of Commerce officials, John Galluzzo, Jason Parker and Bill Taylor, signed the final paperwork on…

Michael O'Brien has purchased Bob Bridge Toyota Scion.

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Bob Bridge sells Toyota dealership to O’Brien Group

Under Michael O'Brien's ownership the dealership will be known as Toyota Scion of Renton. In an interview O'Brien…

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Welcome to Renton, headquarters of Boeing Commercial Airplanes | Editor’s Note

I am just going to put this out there. The world heaquarters of Boeing’s Commercial Airplanes is still…

The  headquarters today of the Boeing Commercial Airplanes Division is on Oakesdale Avenue in Renton.

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Boeing’s Albaugh, top staff to move to office space in Seattle tower

It seems that Renton is going to have to share the title of world headquarters for Boeing's Commercial…

A City of Renton maintenance worker cleans up debris at the Maplewood Golf Course following the January storms.

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Renton storm damage $225,105; Gregoire asks for $32.3 million

Renton suffered $225,105 in damages from the January snow storm and ice storm, part of a $32.3 million…

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Valley board needs to focus attention | Editor’s Note

The residents of Public Hospital District No. 1 weren’t well-served Tuesday night by the district’s commissioners. They met…

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Declining property values cut hospital district’s revenue $3.3 million

Public Hospital District No. 1, which owns Valley Medical Center, is losing about $3.3 million in property-tax revenue…

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$97 million bond measure to build new middle school fails

The $97 million bond issue to build a new middle school in Renton lost some ground Friday in…