A new addition to the Kirkland Children’s School was recently approved by the Kirkland City Council and Houghton Community Council that will include three additional classrooms, nine parking stalls and a rain garden for children to learn.
Some residents in downtown Kirkland oppose the construction of a large building that would replace the current parking lot behind Hector’s and Milagro Cantina with roughly 189,500 square feet of parking, office, restaurant and retail space.
At least one dozen opponents of the Potala Village project dressed in red at the last Kirkland City Council meeting of the year Tuesday to express dissatisfaction on an unclear zoning code that would affect development in the Moss Bay neighborhood, among others.
Between Nov. 30 to Dec. 6, the Kirkland Police Department reported 519 traffic violations (11 DUIs), eight school zone traffic violations, 40 alarm calls,
A 15-year-old Kirkland boy was arrested on Saturday after crashing on Interstate 405 and running from police.
The Top Shelf Broiler opened last Friday at the location of the former Greek restaurant Olive You.
The Kirkland community is making sure same-sex couples will have an opportunity to have a wedding this Sunday, instead of simply going to City Hall.
A Montana man was charged Monday for the murder of a Kirkland woman that occurred in 1996. Clifford Everell Reed faces a $5 million bail and second degree murder charges after allegedly killing Sandi Rae Johnson, a former Kirkland resident, on April 26, 1996. King County detectives from the Cold Case Unit recently arrested the 59-year-old at his home in Victor, Mont. without incident. And swiftly extradited him to King County to be detained.
Between Nov. 26-29 the Kirkland Police Department reported 255 traffic violations (two DUIs), six school zone traffic violations, 16 alarm calls, four noise complaints, two calls of disturbance, 12 thefts, eight car prowls, four car thefts,
Many residents of the Garden Gate neighborhood want a nearby one-acre piece of land turned into a small children’s public park, but others in the surrounding neighborhood say that opening up the enclosed space may subject the site to criminal activity.
A Baskin-Robbins employee claims he was terminated after requesting to have an extra employee by his side for night shifts. The request came after the ice cream shop was robbed on Wednesday night.
Kirkland firefighters extricated an elderly woman trapped in her vehicle after her car went off the road and into the woods on Wednesday night.
The blotter feature is both a description of a small selection of police incidents and a statistical round-up of all calls to the Kirkland Police Department that are dispatched to on-duty police officers. The Kirkland Reporter Police Blotter is not intended to be representative of all police calls originating in Kirkland, which average about 1,000 per week.
Investigators were at the scene of a house fire Monday to determine how the crawl space of a 4,000-square-foot house caught fire Sunday night.
A Swedish singer began filming her fourth music video at Kirkland’s Heathman Hotel on Friday and will continue throughout the weekend.
Between Nov. 9-15 the Kirkland Police Department reported 604 traffic violations (four DUIs), 12 school zone traffic violations, 31 alarm calls, eight noise complaints, seven calls of disturbance, 17 thefts, 20 car prowls, 32 acts of traffic abandonment
The Kirkland City Council did not approve a proposed Potala Village settlement agreement last night put forth by developer Lobsang Dargey and his wife Tamara Agassi Dargey.
A child sex abuse claim, which involved a Kirkland church, has been settled. A trial was scheduled to begin against the Seattle Archdiocese next Monday but the parish district settled for $635,000 on Thursday.
About 1,000 pounds of food were donated to Hopelink two weeks ago thanks to Evergreen Academy’s “star student,” Ellie Sivesind.
For those who feel groggy, irritable and not quite “there” in the morning, the owners of Java Zombie say they have the cure.
