Changes are coming to the Cedar River Trail – possibly, a lower speed limit for bike riders – following the death in April of Velda Mapelli, who was hit on the trail by a bike.
Mayor Denis Law’s proposal was presented to the City Council Monday night by administrative staff members. The council made suggestions, which staff will now incorporate into a final proposal for council consideration.
Armed with heavy gear, stuffed toys and high-tech equipment, firefighters drilled together in Renton Friday in simulations of hazardous-materials spills.
They were joined by a U.S. Army unit, the Civil Support Team, based at Camp Murray in Tacoma. That unit is on the frontlines of responding to a weapon of mass destruction in the region.
Let’s not tip-toe around what happened to Alajawan Brown. He was murdered. And someone out there knows who fired that…
The homeless encampment, Nickelsville, has moved back to Skyway, after a nearly year-long sojourn through Port of Seattle property and floors and lawns at Seattle churches.
The tent city spent three months in spring 2009 at the Bryn Mawr United Methodist Church on the other side of Skyway from where it is now. It left in June for Seattle.
Hundreds of mourners filled the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Baptist Church in the Highlands with hope and sorrow Monday,…
A donation jar regularly raising more than $100 a day for the family of the 12-year-old boy shot dead in…
Maybe Renton can call it the “bumblebee” bridge. Ignore the warning signs and you’re going to get stung. But whatever…
Alajawan Brown liked to play football. A couple Thursday’s ago, he took the bus to Walmart to buy some football cleats, using $20 he got from his brother to clean the kitchen.
City of Renton officials from multiple departments are working on plans to make the Cedar River Trail safer, following the death of an 83-year-old woman knocked down by a bike rider on April 18.
At about 6 p.m. April 29, 12-year-old Alajawan Brown got off the bus in front of the 7-Eleven on Martin Luther King Jr. Way in Skyway for the walk home.
He had just bought some cleats at Walmart to get ready to play football.
Just minutes later he ran back, bleeding from a gunshot wound, near death. He made it just to the front of the store, where he co
Kris Sorensen with the South Renton Connection is helping to connect his neighborhood with his feet. Sorensen, sitting at his…
The Skyway community will come together Wednesday evening in a prayer vigil to remember 12-year-old Alajawan Brown, who was shot…
The Sheriff’s Office is asking the public’s help for information in the shooting last Thursday evening that left a 12-year-old boy dead and a 27-year-old man with critical injuries at Harborview Medical Center.
A 12-year-old boy was shot and killed in a shooting Thursday evening in Skyway, according to the King County Sheriff’s…
The Renton Civic Theater has stepped up to save the Summer Teen Musical, which had lost its City of Renton…
Gerald “Jerry” Selden’s death came near a date 42 years ago that would change his life forever.
Not long out of Renton High School, the young Marine was shot in both legs in Vietnam on April 19, 1968.
He died either April 22 or April 23, 2010, haunted by the war, his body pulled from the Cedar River near the Renton Senior Center by two Renton police officers.
I can’t imagine the terror and pain Velda K. Mapelli must have felt, if only for an instant, after she was knocked to the ground by a bicyclist late Sunday afternoon on the Cedar River Trail.
The body of a 62-year-old Renton man reported missing from his south Renton home Thursday afternoon was pulled from the Cedar River Friday afternoon.
The Sikh community in South King County will celebrate May 1 with its Sikh Day Parade and a gathering for all at Springbrook Elementary School.
This is the third year the Sikhs have held the parade, starting at their Gurudwara Singh Sabha of Washington temple on Talbot Road South.
At Springbrook, everyone can enjoy booths, food, vendors and a children’s area.
A strike Wednesday by Waste Management garbage haulers has halted collection today (Thursday) of garbage, recyclables and food and yard waste today in Renton.
The drivers went on strike at about 10:30 a.m.
Allied Waste also serves a portion of Renton, but that hauler earlier reached an contract agreement with Teamsters Local 174.
