Take a look at the future of PARK LANE attend the Design Concepts Open House Thursday, October 23, 2008 6:30-8:00 PM Kirkland Library 308 Kirkland Avenue Park Lane is a central corridor to shopping, dining, public art and ...

  [gallery] The fourth annual PACE Race will take place on Sunday, November 2nd. Join the 5K Run/Walk or participate in the 1 mile family fitness walk. For the 8 and under crowd there is a Kids’ Dash (followed by some ...

  [gallery] The Kirkland Wednesday Market celebrated the end of the season with a "Howl-O-Ween Dog Costume Fashion Show" which featured dogs of all shapes and sizes dressed up for Halloween. By popular demand, there was an encore appearance of the MaxMobile. The ...

Touchstone and Citizens for Responsible Development have submitted 200-word rebuttals to each other's arguments which have been amended to their respective Point and Counterpoints. You can read them here: Point/Counterpoint: Touchstone on Kirkland Parkplace Social and Economic Impact Point/Counterpoint: CRD on Kirkland Parkplace Social ...

Today, the City of Kirkland Planning Department released the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for the City of Kirkland Downtown Area Planned Action Ordinance (PAO) prepared in accordance with the State Environmental Policy Act. The Proposed Action being considered includes three ...

Here is one of those stories about bad stuff that happens elsewhere. Not here in our town. I didn't ever expect to read about prostitution in Kirkland. Thank you to the King County Sheriff's Office for getting this scum ...

How well are Kirkland’s streets being maintained?  The City of Kirkland wants to know your opinion.  In February, 2008, the City of Kirkland commissioned a citizen survey to understand the opinions of randomly selected city residents about city services.  This survey reflected ...

A new feature called Forums has been added to Kirkland Views. There have been many requests for the posting of events on this site. The time requirements involved have been overwhelming so we have introduced the ...

According to an article by Kevin Ervin of The Seattle Times, King County Executive Ron Sims has called for a cut in funds set aside as incentives to cities to annex urban unincorporated areas. Instead, the money will be ...

While community is primarily about people, it’s also interesting to look at how buildings can contribute to community. Can new buildings make an already great community even more solid by providing resources to the city, places where people can connect, and improved quality of life and environment? For certain.

During a public hearing held Tuesday night, the Kirkland City Council passed on the chance to vote on two ordinances involving the building moratorium in downtown Kirkland. A dozen or so passionate speakers from the audience lobbied the Council toward ...

Nearly a century after a “Mosquito Fleet” of small boats linked the communities that ring Lake Washington and Puget Sound, a new King County Ferry District is up and running to operate Vashon passenger-only ferry service, year-round operation of ...

The Kirkland Tourism Board as put together the following list of Kirkland events: Featured Events From Farm To Table Harvest Bounty On October 6 at 6:30 p.m., Sur La Table ...

[gallery] The rain subsided just in time for the estimated 1600 triathletes who stormed the beaches of Houghton. After swimming 1/2 mile in Lake Washington, mounting their bikes to pedal 12 miles through Kirkland and then running the final 3 ...

This came in today from Kathryn Reith of the Lake Washington School District: Rob: I wanted to make sure you are aware of an event on Monday at the Lake Washington School District Resource Center. The School Board is hosting a conversation with...

Your editorial on Kirkland's six-month moratorium on high-rise construction downtown ("Kirkland takes a breath," April 19) raises troublesome questions about such actions beyond protecting a "treasured sense of scale," which most of us value. All those who have a stake in the integrity of the public...

Washington is only the second state to allow online voter registration. Our state has seen more than its share of controversial elections. Just two years ago, Sam Reed was quoted saying a voter fraud incident “was the worst case of election fraud in our state's history. It was an outrage”...

Downtown Kirkland was hopping Wednesday as two events filled Park Lane with vendor booths, information, activities and live music as both the Green Festival and the Harvest Supper shared the street. The Kirkland Wednesday Market...

I may have disagreements with the course we have taken to date, but I share the goal of the entire Council going forward: remove ambiguity from the development process, thus preventing the insanity of the past year from ever happening again...

A Task Force of residents along Slater Ave NE and the North Hill Neighborhood Association has been working with the city to develop a traffic calming plan for Slater Ave NE. The purpose of the plan is to reduce traffic speeds and make the street safer for all who ...