Kenworth Truck Co. will lay off up to 430 workers at its Renton plant in mid-January because of a significant…
About 21,000 Boeing engineers and technical workers are voting on a new four-year contract recently negotiated by the Boeing Co….
The 2008 general election Nov. 4 in King County is putting up some really big numbers. Turnout could reach about…
This Sunday (Nov. 9), the Boulevard Salon on Lake Washington Boulevard is going to be a beehive of activity for…
The fish weir crossing the Cedar River near Interstate 405 downtown was removed Wednesday in advance of the “pineapple express”…
Today, I am hopeful. The day is bright, despite the gray weather. I have nothing to fear from my national leader.
Barack Obama is our new president.
I witnessed the Obama experience a couple years ago when I covered his appearance at Bellevue Community College for the King County Journal.
Renton community and business leader Marcie Maxwell has been elected to the state House of Representatives in the 41st District,…
Sue Carlson, who many credit with helping to lay the foundation for much of Renton’s economic development today, died Thursday…
Marcie Maxwell of Renton is “cautiously optimistic” that her comfortable lead in her race for a seat in the state…
What is happening at the King County Elections Office in Renton today began in 2004, in the wake of a…
It’s all over but the counting.
Yup, it has been a long few months, wading through the pleas of political candidates and the attack ads that more often than not obscured any hope of making an informed decision.
But it’s our system and you gotta love it, I suppose.
Big Mac has risen from the ashes of a storm-related fire last December that destroyed the McDonald’s restaurant on Rainier Avenue.
Although the restaurant opened for business on Oct. 21, dignitaries, including state Sen. Margarita Prentice, and well-wishers gathered Wednesday for a grand opening. The roughly 50 in attendance received tours of what’s touted as one of McDonald’s new state-of-the-art restaurants. Of course, there were samples.
A 27-year-old man early died Wednesday morning when the car he was driving – apparently at a high rate of…
Mayor Denis Law presented to the City Council Monday night a proposed $252 million city budget that is being buffeted…
Renton has a lot of firepower in the state Legislature, as measured by the number – 5 – of legislative districts that include a piece of the city or its environs within their borders.
A Renton-area man has been charged with eight counts of removing or defacing political advertising in the theft of nearly…
An interactive golf retailer – Golf Galaxy – gets into the swing of things with its grand opening Nov. 14 at The Landing.
The store is the first Golf Galaxy in Washington state.
The Boeing Co. and the union representing its roughly 27,000 Machinists will return to the bargaining table this Thursday in…
Vandals dropped two picnic tables from the walkway next to the downtown Renton Library last week – right on top of redds or nests of returning sockeye salmon.