King County Executive Dow Constantine proposed installing cameras on all Metro Transit buses, building on the progress the agency has made to dramatically decrease the number of driver assaults in recent years.
The Metropolitan King County Council’s Transportation, Economy and Environment (TrEE) Committee will receive a special briefing on the steps the King County Sheriff’s Office and Metro Transit are taking to ensure the safety of passengers and bus drivers:
About 87 percent of drivers engaged in at least one risky behavior while behind the wheel within the past month, according to latest research by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. These unsafe behaviors include driving while distracted, impaired, drowsy, speeding, running red lights or not wearing a seat belt.
Sound Transit riders once again set all-time annual records in 2015 for boardings on commuter trains, buses and light rail in central Puget Sound. Sound Transit had an estimated 34.9 million total boardings last year, a 6 percent increase over 2014. Average weekday boardings were 116,839 in 2015.
Benjamin David Canty, a volunteer, assistant cheerleading coach at Kentwood High School and a coach with a private cheerleading club in Kent, has been charged with two counts of communicating with a minor for immoral purposes by the King County Prosecutor’s Office.
Around 8:30 this morning King County Sheriff’s Metro Transit deputies responded to S 296 th St and 36 Ave S for a report of a Metro driver who had been assaulted by a passenger. The driver reported that a man backhanded her in the face as he was getting off the bus.
A year-long legal battle between the Enumclaw School District and one of its students has finally come to a close.
Imagine being a kid, you go to school, play sports and spend time with your friends and family.
The King County Assessors Office is letting property owners know early their tax bills will increase in 2016 because of initiatives approved by voters.
At Feb. 22’s Council meeting, Councilmembers: Heard from the public during the Council’s monthly public comment period.
Two projects aimed at improving natural areas in and around the City of Covington received the unanimous support of the Metropolitan King County Council at the Council’s Feb. 22 meeting.
Beginning March 7, small dogs and cats can join their owners on Amtrak Cascades trains for their next adventure.
Registration for the popular Citizen’s Police Academy is open only until filled. The King County Sheriff’s Office and the cities of Maple Valley and Covington are working cooperatively to help citizens gain a better understanding of police operations through education and interaction with law enforcement officers.
An ordinance making supplemental appropriations to various general fund and non-general fund agencies and to various capital fund budgets and amending the 2015/2016 Biennial Budget Ordinance (Substitute Ordinance 2016-0011.2).
Senate Bill 6195, creating a task force on basic education funding issues.
King County is working hard to educate landowners, manage high priority invasive species and restore habitats and ecological function to areas damaged by non-native plants, animals and insects.
More than 17 percent of Washington’s tobacco retailers illegally sold tobacco to minors in 2015, according to the annual Synar Report. Washington’s 2015 retailer non-compliance level is the highest it’s been since the state began tracking in 1997, when the rate was 19.8 percent. If the rate exceeds 20 percent, the state could lose federal funding for drug, alcohol, and tobacco prevention and treatment.
The Washington State House of Representatives today approved Attorney General Bob Ferguson’s agency-request bill to reduce youth access to vapor products, in a 59-36 vote.
Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced his office has prevailed in a lawsuit against a California company that scammed new property owners into buying overpriced deeds
Metro General Manager leaving for position in Canada
