Art and autos will combine July 6 at the Return to Renton Annual Car Show, lining the streets downtown and including an art gallery sponsored by Arts Unlimited.
The driver of a 2002 Acura that crashed into an apartment complex on Talbot Road South in December, resulting in the death a passenger, has been charged with vehicular homicide.
The discovery of a human jawbone in the Renton Highlands last Thursday may go down as an historical mystery.
The mood is merry inside the wood-paneled club house. People sing along to folk songs the man in the corner strums on his guitar. A young girl dances. An assortment of appetizers and cakes sit nearby.
Renton School Board honored Lindbergh High School’s 12 Outstanding Seniors at a meeting Wednesday.
A human jaw bone was uncovered Tuesday at a residential construction site at 2211 Edmonds Ave. N.E., according to the Renton Police Department.
This weekend’s heat has brought the seasonal calls for safe use of the region’s rivers and the City of Renton’s swimming pools and beaches.
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Renton Salvation Army is hosting its annual Need Knows No Season Benefit Dinner at the Spirit of Washington Event Center June 26 at 6 p.m. Tickets are not yet for sale.
Hearing Examiner Fred Kaufman recently approved — with basic conditions — the plans for a downtown apartment and retail building that would take up five downtown lots anchored by Jet City Espresso, at the southwest corner of South Second Street and Main Avenue South.
Supporters of the Renton School District’s $150 million construction bond measure are putting on a final push this weekend to get voters to mail in their ballots.
It’s not every second grader who can comfortably throw around words like thou, thee and doth. But the students in Harvey Sadis’ Cascade Elementary class aren’t any second graders.
Eleven Renton School District teachers were honored recently at the Excellence in Education Ahead of the Class awards ceremony.
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It’s nearly 7:20 a.m. at Hazen High School. On any other day, campus would be buzzing with straggling students. But today, except for staff cars, the parking lots are deserted. A girl wearing shorts and a T-shirt runs inside to join other dancers. No other students are around. Upstairs, lockers line the empty hallways. Only a few classrooms are lit.
The wares at the Salvation Army Renton Rotary Food Bank grew by 64,000 pounds over the weekend.
The black bear treed in Kennydale a couple weeks ago is on the mend. He underwent surgery on May 5 to fix his dislocated right hip and fractured hip bone.
Leila Swier turned 18 March 31. She registered to vote a few weeks later and mailed her first ballot shortly after.
A 74-year-old Renton man stabbed multiple times Thursday evening in downtown Renton is recovering from his wounds, while Renton police investigate the events leading to the attack – starting with the robbery of a cell phone.
