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Sammamish Council approves tenfold increase to ARCH funding

The Sammamish City Council unanimously approved a $90,000 line item, which would increase the city’s funding to A…

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Sammamish Plateau Water & Sewer District more prepared with new $3 million facility

The newly installed outdoor facility includes a landscape shop, a decanting facility, two large fuel tanks and storage…

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Deck the halls with fire safety in mind

December is one of the leading months for U.S. home fires, according to the National Fire Protection Association.

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No new movement at Talus landslide site | More data needed before safe, city says

Monitoring devices installed outside the site of the Northwest Talus Drive landslide were showing no new perceptible movement…

Nearly 490 customers near Northeast Eighth Street and 244th Avenue Northeast in Sammamish lost power around 8:45 a.m. with an estimated restoration time of 11 a.m.

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Downed tree in Sammamish causes 1,500 residents to lose power Thursday morning | King County in high wind alert

As of 11:30 a.m., that was reduced to nearly 490 customers near Northeast Eighth Street and 244th Avenue…

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Issaquah Cannabis Company cited for underage sale | First and only violation for city’s only recreational marijuana store

The Issaquah Cannabis Company has been cited by the state Liquor and Cannabis Board after a compliance check…

The suspect in Tuesday's robbery of the Bank of America on Front Street North.

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Bank of America robbed

An unknown man robbed the Bank of America in Issaquah’s Olde Town neighborhood Tuesday.

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Multi-state E. coli outbreak expands, links celery mix to infection

What started with a four-state E. coli outbreak linked to Costco’s chicken salad has expanded to seven states…

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City moves forward with public records settlement terms

The Sammamish City Council unanimously voted Tuesday to allow a longtime Sammamish couple to submit a shoreline variance…

Former Eastside Fire & Rescue Fire Chief Lee Soptich pins uniform bars on interim Fire Chief Greg Tryon during the Eastside Fire regular board meeting

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Interim Eastside Fire & Rescue chief officially starts

Interim Fire Chief Greg Tryon is one of four candidates for the open position.

R. Joseph Scott

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Longtime Sammamish Symphony director retires

R. Joseph Scott announced his retirement, due to health reasons, this week. Adam Stern, the interim director since…

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Public invited to meet, greet EF&R fire chief candidates

The Eastside Fire regional board of directors will hold a special meeting at the Hilton Garden Inn in…

Alana Deporter

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Missing Sammamish teen returns home safe

Alana DePorter, 15, returned home after running away in mid-October, according to the King County Sheriff's Office.

Local items like kokanee salmon replace the familiar die-cast Monopoly pieces in Issaquah-opoly.

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Chamber revives Issaquah-opoly board game for Christmas season

"It's the type of thing you can bring home once every generation," she said.

Battalion Chief Glenn Huffman and his son camped out on top of a truck over the weekend to collect donations for two area food banks.

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Firefighters collect 12 tons of goods for food banks

Battalion Chief Glenn Huffman and his son camped out on top of a semitruck trailer parked in the…

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Sammamish council considers significant increase to ARCH funding

A $90,000 line item, which would increase the city’s funding to A Regional Coalition for Housing tenfold, drew…

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Inside Issaquah PD’s Citizens Academy | Part 4: Cops in Schools

If an officer can successfully relate to students, students are more likely to help that officer keep the…

A scene from the Issaquah Turkey Trot Thursday morning.

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Issaquah Turkey Trot

Hundreds gathered for the Issaquah Turkey Trot to walk and run the morning of Thanksgiving.

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Sammamish Planning Commission aims to gather public input on potential changes to city code

The potential changes are related to concerns citizens spoke out about regarding the relationship between residences and group…

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16 affected by multistate E. coli outbreak linked to Costco chicken salad | 1 Washington case confirmed

Public health officials urge people who recently bought Costco’s “chicken salad made with rotisserie chicken” to toss it…