About 300 emergency preparedness kits were assembled last Thursday by about 140 volunteers at an event sponsored by the Highlands Community Association.
The kits will go to senior citizens and the disabled in Renton so they have a better chance of surviving an disaster or other emergency.
The original goal was to assemble about 200 kits.
The Renton Fire and Emergency Services Department is conducting a special training exercise for firefighters next week, on Tuesday, Wednesday…
Michael Agelo Colacarro Sr., 89, died June 9, 2008, in Renton. He was born July 25, 1918, in Seattle.
Starting Monday, crews will begin installing the new culvert that will carry Thunder Hills Creek underneath Interstate 405 near Benson…
Due to the possible presence of salmonella bacteria in some tomatoes, Waste Management and Cedar Grove Composting of Maple Valley are requesting that all residential and business customers put suspect tomatoes and suspect raw tomato products such as salsa in the garbage, not in curbside yard/food carts or in home composting bins or worm bins.
It’s taken a while, but Crystal Ainardi has finally tracked them down. Or many of them. Late last year the 28-year-old former Renton resident started searching for the 20-some Italian families in a photo taken at a 1935 picnic at McDonald’s Grove — now thought to be Cedar Grove — on Maple Valley Highway.
The City of Renton is hosting a Benson Hill Community Celebration on Saturday, June 21.
The Renton Fire and Emergency Services Department will conduct a special training exercise for firefighters next week, on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, that will include a live fire.
The discharge of fireworks is banned in the City of Renton throughout the year, including the Fourth of July, city officials are reminding residents.
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Landlords and property owners would play a greater role in combating crime on properties in unincorporated King County, under legislation introduced Thursday by King County Councilmember Reagan Dunn.
As expected, Baiba and Joe Rubino came out near the top during the second and third Renton Neighborhood Challenge weigh-ins, on June 5 and Thursday, June 12. The family of four reduced its trash from the first May 29 weigh-in by more than half, going from a bloated 62.6 pounds to 24.6.
Becky Nickels will become the new president of Soroptimist International of Renton during the year-end installation and awards banquet 6 p.m. Tuesday at Merrill Gardens in Renton.
There are no city elections on this year’s primary and general election ballots, but state and national races should provide plenty of fireworks.
The candidates for state Legislature, governor and other state officials and Congress formally made known their intention to run during the recent filing period for the Aug. 19 primary.
Of course, it’s a presidential year, too.
This is also the year that the top-two vote-getters in the primary move on to the general election in November. That could mean two Democrats or two Republicans move on in a partisan race.
By EMILY GARLAND Renton Reporter The black bear treed in a Kennydale backyard in late April was released into the…
The black bear treed in Kennydale in late April will be released Wednesday on the eastern slope of the North…
All lanes of northbound I-405, just south of Northeast Park Drive in Renton, are now open. An earlier collision has…
