Site Logo
Tom Hitzroth stands in front of the historic Brown Building

News

Exploring Redmond’s colorful past: Hitzroth reveals all during historic downtown walking tours

A stroll through Redmond’s historic downtown with tour guide Tom Hitzroth reveals the city’s colorful past. Nearly a…

News

City seeks volunteers for Derby Days summer festival

The City of Redmond is seeking volunteers for its annual summer festival, Derby Days, Friday, July 8 and…

Redmond resident Erica Leuenberger

News

The Bear Creek School graduates ready to shine | Slide show

The Bear Creek School honored 44 graduates at Saturday's commencement ceremony at First Presbyterian Church of Bellevue.

Justin Prohn

News

The Overlake School honors its 69 graduates | Slide show

Sixty-nine graduates of The Overlake School in Redmond were honored at Sunday's commencement ceremony at the school's main…

Lake Sammamish State Park manager and ranger Rich Benson says the park could use some help from groups

News

Can Lake Sammamish State Park find a future, support in the community? | Part 2 of 2-part series

Rolling his truck through ankle-deep puddles, the ranger turns toward the empty beach and passes by a 1950s…

The Bear Creek School senior Abby Gomulkiewicz has participated in the school's drama department since sixth-grade. She said she loves dressing up and pretending to be someone she is not.

News

Redmond’s shining stars: Graduates ready to make their mark beyond high school

Their interests may differ, but high school seniors Abby Gomulkiewicz, Jeffrey McNerney and Tian Kisch have all made…

News

Redmond takes lead in new push to enhance sustainability in county

The City of Redmond is joining with King County and several other cities to commit to working together…

This is a conceptional drawing of a potential landing — or gathering space — to be built in the downtown sector of the Redmond Central Connector by 2016.

News

Redmond Central Connector master plan complete; construction to begin next spring

By spring of next year, the City of Redmond's divisive, dilapidated downtown rail corridor will begin to be…

Aliyson Spence (left) shows fifth-grader Parth Parulekar how to cut an onion without hurting himself. Spence visited Albert Einstein Elementary School as part of Beecher's Flagship Foundation program

News

Beecher’s Flagship Foundation teachers Einstein students about food nutrition

The two fifth-grade classrooms at Albert Einstein Elementary School were buzzing with uncommon activities late Wednesday morning with…

Leon McLaughlin and Carolyn Hall enjoy a dance together after being crowned king and queen at Overlake Terrace's Senior Prom last Friday.

News

Overlake Terrace Senior Prom: ‘A fun and colorful event’

Overlake Terrace, an assisted living community in Redmond, held its own Senior Prom last Friday, with the help…

News

Artwork to be exhibited at Old Redmond Schoolhouse Community Center and Redmond Senior Center

Artwork from local artists will be on exhibit throughout the summer at the Old Redmond Schoolhouse Community Center…

Jessica Koehnen of Bellevue pours rice and soy protein into a bag as a part of the Fill and Feed event in Redmond June 4. More than 1

News

Volunteers pack 285,000 meals for Filipino children as part of Fill and Feed event at Redmond Assembly of God

More than 1,000 volunteers packed meals to send to the Philippines at the Redmond Assembly of God last…

Redmond Mayor John Marchione

News

Two Redmond city council races will be contested: Flynn vs. Wright and Stewart vs. Carson

There will be five city races on the ballot this fall, but only two of them will be…

At Monday's Lake Washington School District board meeting

News

LWSD board of directors approves resolutions to bring new STEM school closer to reality

The Lake Washington School District's (LWSD) board of directors voted unanimously at Monday's meeting to approve two resolutions…

News

New Eagle Scouts announced

The Sammamish Trails District of Boy Scouts of America recently announced its newest Eagle Scouts.

Ranger Tor Bjorklund

News

Declining Lake Sammamish State Park out of place: Park losing its footing and funding | Part 1 of 2-part series

While the July 2010 shooting was isolated – nothing like that had happened in 20 years – it…

Shown packing

News

Troop support group sends out 10,000th care package to troops overseas

On Thursday evening, about 100 people were at Lake Washington Post 2995 of Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW)…

P.V. (Sundar) Balakrishnan

News

Redmond professor earns Distinguished Teaching Award: Dr. Balakrishnan to be honored Thursday

Redmond resident P.V. (Sundar) Balakrishnan has been named recipient of the University of Washington (UW) 2011 Distinguished Teaching…

On Friday

News

Cairns and Newman discuss future for Redmond’s roads at Redmond Senior Center

Just as the roads in Redmond connect the city's many neighborhoods, it takes many people to design, build…

Local participants circle the track at Redmond High School to help raise money for the American Cancer Society's Redmond-Kirkland Relay for Life on Saturday. So far

News

Redmond-Kirkland Relay for Life raises money to help stomp cancer

On Saturday, nearly 300 people gathered into 29 teams at the sun-soaked Redmond High School track to help…