Sheriff's deputies on patrol in Maple Valley spotted a bear early Tuesday morning. The bear was wandering down a sidewalk near Lake Wilderness Elementary School and State Route 169 at about 3 a.m. A representative of the Department of Fish and Wild... »
The King County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s help identifying a man who robbed a Subway Sandwich Shop at gunpoint and may be responsible for two other similar robberies. On Tuesday, March 27, around 3:40 p.m., a man entered a Subway st... »
A small plane crashed near Covington Saturday afternoon, and the pilot was critically injured, according to Cindi West of the King County Sheriff's Office. Officials said the plane was found upside down between two houses near Crest Airpark. Accord... »
Like a visitor who has overstayed their welcome, snow has made another appearance in some areas even as the season changed to spring. KIRO 7 Eyewitness News reporter Michelle Millman was on the road Thursday where she found 1 to 1-1/2 inches in the La... »
Black ice sent cars sliding, causing spinouts all over Western Washington early Monday morning. Two people were hurt in a two-car crash on Interstate 5 in Fife, where one car slipped on ice at 2 a.m. While the driver was calling for help, another ... »
A Des Moines woman was convicted of stalking a Maple Valley man 12 years ago, and now she is accused of stalking another man. Madaline DeSmet sent love letters every day to Tim Dury, her first victim, until she was convicted of stalking him. Dury t... »
A memorial packed with rangers, officers, friends and family was held Friday for a Washington State Parks ranger who was killed in a crash last week. Ranger Ed Johanson died in crash near Seabeck. He was off-duty and on his way home when another vehi... »
A spokesperson from the Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission said the park ranger killed in a fatal car collision was 44-year-old Ed Johanson. Many mourned after hearing about his death. Johanson was a ranger for 20 years and served at ... »
Black ice is blamed for a number of accidents, and may have caused a fatal wreck that has closed westbound State Route 16 for hours. Westbound SR 16 at Burnham will be closed for up to four more hours after the crash involving at least six vehicles. ... »
Hundreds of thousands of people across Western Washington could remain in the cold and dark for days after a rare ice storm that downed trees, ripped down power lines and made some roads impassable. Puget Sound Energy said 255,000 are without power; ... »
Highway 18 between Interstate 90 and State Route 164 will remain closed overnight from Thursday to Friday after the Washington State Department of Transportation spent all day trying to clear the roadway of trees that fell under the weight of heavy sno... »
A Covington woman was offered hundreds of dollars right when money was the tightest - during the holidays. So Autumn Bullman said "yes!" But that so-called "loan" went very wrong. Bullman was at work mid-December when she received a cal... »
Firefighters from the Kangley Palmer Volunteer Fire District ran out of water while trying to put out a house fire in Selleck late Thursday night. The fire broke out before midnight and started from the chimney. When firefighters arrived, the roof of ... »
An underground power cable failed, sending a surge of electricity that sparked at least one fire in a Covington neighborhood early Tuesday morning. One resident told KIRO 7 Eyewitness News that part of his fence caught fire after the surge. Kyle Wi... »
A 15-year-old boy accused in two sexual assaults in Kent late last month has confessed, the King County deputy prosecutor said. Kent police arrested the boy shortly after noon Monday in the Covington area.Kent police said they started their investigati... »
