Tukwila News

Huh - another article about the finally impending arrival of mass transit to metro Seattle results in another bevy of the same stale comments from the same stale bunch of auto-uber-alles posters... Maybe the folks in almost all of the major cities on the planet are wrong about rail transit but you lot - you happy teeth gnashing asphalt loving few - ...

Create a rain garden and help save the planet. Create a rain garden and help save the planet.

The family of 11 who had their van and almost everything they own stolen from a Tukwila hotel is back on the road.

Not long after Edward Lee Vargas was named superintendent of the Kent School District, he stood on a playground where most of the students playing soccer, swinging from the jungle gym or batting tetherballs were Asian, Hispanic or black.

There's a new city in South King County, and all its citizens are under 18. "It's a kid-run city," Meg Pitman explains.

Sorry, tfree, you had your chance to complain. And that chance has passed. I have never been beside a light rail track in another city Lack of due diligence on your part does not constitute a reason for sympathy on my part.

Laurie and David Shumate, who live across the street from Sound Transit's light-rail route on East Marginal Way South in Tukwila, say proximity to the Duwamish River drew them to the neighborhood.

Water leaking through a damaged abutment at the Howard Hanson Dam still puzzles the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and increases the risk of flooding this winter in the Green River Valley.

A Level 3 sex offender is under arrest and charged with molesting a young boy at a public swimming pool.

Some local homeowners are asking Sound Transit to hush up. The residents on East Marginal Way South say the noise the new light rail is forcing on their neighborhood far exceeds the minimal noise they were promised during the design and building phases.

Crystal Beltran stood up at a community meeting at the Riverton Park United Methodist Church, pleading with residents of Tukwila and SeaTac.

The Tukwila man who died Sunday afternoon while diving in waters off Redondo Beach has been identified.

A 60-year-old Tukwila man died Sunday afternoon while diving in waters off Redondo Beach, police said.

A young woman was hit by a freight train and killed late Friday while walking on a Burlington Northern train trestle in Tukwila.

King County sheriff's detectives are investigating an overnight fatal shooting at an intersection in SeaTac.

An 18-year-old man was gunned down in a hail of bullets late Wednesday night, and the shooter remains on the loose.

King County Sheriff deputies are searching for suspects following a deadly shooting in Seatac overnight.

One man is dead after an overnight shooting at an intersection in SeaTac. Police say the shooting happened around 11:30 p.m. Wednesday at Military Road and South 140th Street.

I remember my Dad taught me how to shoot a rifle and a pistol when I was a boy. I would line up glass jars and bottles on the top of a fence and shoot at them for target practice.

A man and his adult son have been charged with first-degree animal cruelty after they allegedly shot a Rottweiler and left it for dead last month in North Bend.