Sound Transit held the first of five open houses and public hearings regarding East Link light rail options on Wednesday evening at the Old Redmond Schoolhouse Community Center.
Redmond-based Microsoft Corp. eliminated 1,400 jobs Thursday morning, including 872 at its Redmond campus — and there are more cuts to come.
Children at Redmond Elementary School might not have fully grasped the enormity of what happened Tuesday in Washington, D.C.
Yet only an hour after Barack Obama became the first black president of the United States, NFL star Mack Strong made a guest appearance at Redmond Elementary and shared his thoughts on how this seemingly impossible dream had come true.
The 2009 One Night Count of unsheltered homeless persons in King County will take place from 1:30-5:30 a.m. Friday, Jan. 30 — in other words, after midnight of Thursday, Jan. 29.
Mother and son, Monica and Patrick Anderson perform a waltz before switching to a hip hop dance routine during a rehearsal for the World Dance Extravaganza at The Overlake School last Friday.
King County Metro Transit will be operating with a reduced weekday schedule today for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. That means some commuter-oriented routes will be canceled that day, and there will be individual trips canceled on other routes. Many routes will have no changes.
Underhill’s Fine Wood Furniture, which had previously announced that it would close its Redmond store at the end of January, has since announced that it will also close its Bellevue, Totem Lake and Lynnwood stores on March 31.
The Lake Washington School District will add three more days of instruction to the school year due to last month’s severe snow storm.
Redmond’s third annual Polar Bear Plunge for the benefit of Special Olympics Washington happens at noon Saturday, Feb. 14 at Idylwood Park, 3650 W. Lake Sammamish Pkwy NE.
Burglary: Police responded to a burglary at an apartment complex in the 15600 block of Northeast 40th Street. Somebody broke a sliding glass window and stole a television.
Even some high-rollers apparently are dressing down or shopping less frequently in this dreadful economy.
The upscale men’s clothing store Barcelino, headquartered in San Francisco, will withdraw its presence from the Pacific Northwest when it closes its Redmond location on Jan. 27.
If people have their way, tolls will be put on the 520 bridge and as soon as next year. That…
A memorial is scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 24 for Heather Haworth, a long-time math and science teacher at Redmond Junior High who passed away on Jan. 6 due to complications from cystic fibrosis. She was 38 years old.
As residents throughout King County and county employees continue to assess the damage caused by two very different winter storms, the Metropolitan King County Council unanimously adopted legislation on Monday, to assist the victims of December’s snow and January’s floods in their recovery.
Heather Haworth, a 38-year-old math teacher at Redmond Junior High (RJH), passed away Jan. 6 due to complications of Cystic Fibrosis.
According to RJH Principal Prato Barone, she began working in the Lake Washington School District in the fall of 1995, “taught sciences and math with a unique passion and energy,” and also coached tennis for a number of years.
A benefit concert for Levi Pocza and his family begins at 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 16 at the Old Fire House Teen Center, 16510 NE 79th St., Redmond.
For the second year in a row, cyclists in the Stinky Weather Poker Run (a.k.a. the Stinky Spoke) will take on the muddy terrain of the north Eastside on Saturday, Jan. 17.
Sen. Rodney Tom and Rep. Ross Hunter, Democrats from the 48th District, appeared at a sparsely-attended Town Hall Meeting Jan. 8 at Redmond City Hall.
The Boeing Co. announced Friday, Jan. 9 that it plans to reduce the workforce of its Renton-based Commercial Airplanes division by 4,500 workers this spring, a 6.6 percent cut.
Redmond Police have found no “firm suspects” in the brutal murder of Arpana Jinaga, a 24-year-old software engineer who was strangled to death at her Redmond apartment after a 2008 Halloween party, according to Lt. Doug Shepard.
