Sammamish News

Sammamish's budget update contained a lot of good news, including an increase in sales tax revenue.

Police responded to a home on the 1500 block of East Lake Sammamish Parkway Northeast when the woman who lives there reported missing items.

A trail of pink helium balloons curved up into an arch from Eastside Catholic campus May 8 as Sammamish's three high schools gathered for the fourth annual Plateau Pink Day.

Sammamish saw its police department expand by two May 7 when Chief Nate Elledge swore in a pair of reserve police officers.

Following a pair of court rulings about impounding vehicles, Sammamish is poised to make changes to its regulations surrounding the issue.

This time, it was the people's turn. The City Council spent the past few weeks getting briefings on the Environmentally Critical Areas Ordinance from members of the city's planning department.

Over a dozen King County law enforcement agencies - including Sammamish and Issaquah police - will deploy extra patrols beginning next week to look for unbuckled drivers and passengers and drivers who are on their cellphones.

Redmond Ridge residents will have to travel to the downtown Redmond Library or another branch to pick up books starting next month.

Cascade Bicycle Club's annual Bike to Work Day is just a few days away, and organizers are gearing up for another big turnout.

Police recovered stolen property - including an assualt rifle with over 1,000 rounds of ammunition - and arrested three people with alleged gang tieslate Thursday evening and early Friday morning in connection with a Sammamish burglary.

From summer recreation to the neighborhood buzz, our Local Voices Bloggers fill us in on the interesting, important and humorous parts of life in Sammamish and Issaquah.

Janet Sailer, from Sammamish Plateau Water and Sewer District, stands near one of the three district's wells that draws half of the drinking water from the aquifer below where she is standing.

Sammamish Police are investigating a residential burglary on the 1800 block of East Lake Sammamish Place SE involving a small safe full of valuables, including $234,000 in Boeing stock certificates, ripped off a wall and stolen from the home.

At the May 7 City Council meeting, Councilwoman Nancy Whitten suggested the city take up monitoring duties that the Friends of Pine Lake plan to stop doing.

The Sammamish resident saw patients of her husband shuffled through the public health system without any long-term resolution for the person afflicted with the crippling condition.

High schools in Bellevue are making headlines once again - this time as some of the nation's best public high schools Newsweek's 2013 list of "America's Best High Schools." All five Bellevue high schools - International, Newport, Interlake, Bellevue and Sammamish - made the cut, with International School ranking 31st out of 2,000 public high ... (more)

Looking for a new job? Sammamish-Issaquah Patch is here to help with a roundup of what's available in and around town.

"Detroit would kill for this kind of financial picture," said Mayor Tom Odell at the May 7 Sammamish City Council meeting.

Kali, a Sumatran tiger cub born April 17, is being 'hand-raised' at the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium.

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