A homeowner discovered five men, all strangers, hanging out in her garage at night, after she forgot to close it Nov. 5.
Joshua Schaer won his seat on Issaquah City Council on Tuesday night, after being the only person from the four open seats to be challenged.
Joshua Schaer won his seat on Issaquah City Council Tuesday night, after being the only only person from the four open seats to be challenged.
Issaquah residents used less water this year, but they won’t pay less money for the savings.
City Council agreed to raise the water rate by 9 percent Monday. It comes to about $4-5 a pay period for the average home.
A wood burning stove is to believe the cause of a fire that consumed a two-story garage in Sammamish Friday.
A new mom and pop winery on Tiger Mountain won two bronze metals from the Tri-Cities Wine Festival.
Issaquah plans to dedicate 40 acres of woods to a former city councilmember Nov. 12.
Maureen McCarry, who the woods are being named for, played an instrumental role in acquiring the piece of wildlife habitat.
When faced with the decision to buy a fourth car for his teens or start riding his bike to work, Paul Winterstein realized he needed to lead by example.
The 50-year-old rides to Redmond twice a week, pumping up Squak Mountain on his return home. He’s an outdoorsman by heart with a human services bend.
“I have moss growing on my feet,” he said with a laugh.
Winterstein is running unopposed in the Nov. 8 General election for John Traeger’s seat on Issaquah City Council.
The Cascade Land Conservancy, the leading land conservation group in the state, announced that it was changing its name to Forterra Tuesday.
Swedish Hospital Issaquah delivered its first baby Tuesday, marking the opening of inpatient care.
The new baby, Liliana Yozelin, was a healthy 8-pounds and 20-inches long. She’s the second child born to Issaquah’s Zulma Gutierrez-Tiznado and Francisco Javier Rodriguez.
Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna would continue his national fight against human trafficking if elected governor in 2012.
Highlighting his role in a recent national attorneys general effort, he spoke at the Issaquah Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday on non-profit and civic leadership Wednesday.
This week’s police blotter for Issaquah and Sammamish
Slides of Bandera Mountain consumed in flame click in and out of a projector in the basement of a Sammamish home.
A picture of a man tipped over with gear, a windsock draped over his shoulder, pops up on the screen.
While Ben Harrison, now 86, had plenty of equipment, he still fought the 1958 fire in a button down, sleeves rolled above his elbows.
The fire blazed a week and a half, scorching six miles along the I-90 corridor. It was another three months and a second swell of fire, before the U.S. Forest Service put out the flames.
Swedish Hospital technicians in Seattle painted a pumpkin using their surgery robot to celebrate Halloween.
Police are still looking for the suspect in an Issaquah bank robbery Friday.
The white, 20-something man was wearing a dark jacket with white stripes down the sleeves and a gray baseball hat.
The following information was compiled from City of Issaquah and City of Sammamish police reports:
Police visited 15 homes scattered throughout Sammamish after 10 p.m., Oct. 19-20, after the owners had left their garage doors open.
The officers warned the residents that there have been several recent burglaries through open garage doors.
The officers had done the same check the week before, and found 15 more homes with garage doors wide open.
Once a corporate lawyer, Nancy Whitten is still surprised that it was the environment that first pulled her into Sammamish politics.
After eight years in Position 4 on the City Council, she gave it up this year to challenge Kathy Richardson for Position 2.
Spurred on by opposition from an established Issaquah hiking group, mountain bikers overwhelmed a park board meeting Monday night to ask for more trail.
It was a spectacle for the board, which is often so scarcely attended it uses a historic farmhouse for its meetings.
This the second of three questions posed to two candidates running for the only challenged seat on Issaquah City Council this November.
The following information was compiled from City of Sammamish police reports:
