Sen. Margarita Prentice, D-Renton, has been elected chair of the Senate Ways and Means Committee, which is the Senate’s budget committee.
Due to inclement weather, Waste Management has cancelled collection services in Snohomish County and most of King County for Monday.
Residential customers whose collection is missed may set out twice the regular amount of garbage, recycling and/or yard waste will be accepted at no additional charge on the next regularly scheduled collection day for each container. If your next regularly scheduled collection falls on a holiday, Waste Management will collect the following day. For example, next week’s Thursday customers will be serviced on Friday and Friday customers will be serviced on Saturday.
SEATTLE-TACOMA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT HAS ISSUED THE FOLLOWING ALERT FOR SUNDAY, DEC. 28: For the latest, go to Port of Seattle,…
The state Department of Transportation has reopened Snoqualmie and White passes, joining Stevens Pass with reopened earlier this week. The…
METRO TRANSIT HAS ISSUED THE FOLLOWING ALERT FOR TUESDAY: Please check MetroOnline Web site before you leave home to see…
A winter storm watch has been issued for Western Washington this weekend, meaning snow and cold will be accompanied by…
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Highlands Community Association (HCA) recently awarded Lakeridge Elementary School Principal Ginny Knox $500.
Renton resident and Western Washington University senior Cory Budden received a $500 Thomas O. Vassdal Art History Scholarship for the 2008-2009 academic year.
• Students in Terry Derrig’s Business Education class at Lindbergh High School recently made 150 thank you cards for service members in Iraq as part of a Veterans Day project. The cards will be mailed to Army Specialist William Wallace, a young man Derrig has known since he was 10. Wallace will give the cards to members of his unit on Christmas Day.
Creative Kitchen Works is seeking food donations to make Christmas dinners for 40-some area families.
Work to repair the 80-year-old State Routed 169 Green River bridge between Black Diamond and Enummclaw is ahead of schedule.