14 LWSD schools to be honored with 2011 Washington Achievement Awards

7 February 2012, 2:58 pm

Fourteen Lake Washington School District (LWSD) schools, including six from Redmond, are among 186 schools in the state that have been honored with 2011 Washington Achievement Awards, as announced by the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) and the State Board of Education (SBE).... Read More »

Redmond's mobile ER: Medic One provides top-notch service, knowledge to emergency situations

7 February 2012, 11:58 am

Mark Donnell first became interested in becoming a paramedic in 1992 when he was with the North Bend Fire Department. The agency had started a program that paired emergency medical technicians (EMTs) with paramedics and Donnell said he was impressed by the paramedics' level of experience, educat... Read More »

Washington's Top Two Youth Volunteers Selected in 17th Annual National Awards Program

7 February 2012, 5:01 am

Jesse Sheldon, 17, of Spokane Valley and Skyler Lee, 12, of Longview today were named Washington's top two youth volunteers for 2012 by The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards, a nationwide program honoring young people for outstanding acts of volunteerism.... Read More »

Washington County News: Tigard chain Typhoon closes restaurants, service remembers Aloha shooting victim

6 February 2012, 9:38 am

A Tigard businessman is blocked from returning to the United States after a humanitarian trip to Libya, Suzanne Bonamici will be sworn in as the 1st District's congressional representative on Tuesday, and PCC Rock Creek joins forces with SolarWorld and SolarCity for a campus solar installation.... Read More »

The Engineer Who Stopped Airplanes From Flying Into Mountains

6 February 2012, 12:14 am

New submitter gmrobbins writes "The Seattle Times profiles avionics engineer Don Bateman, whose Honeywell lab in Redmond, Washington has for decades pioneered ground proximity warning systems. Bateman's innovations have nearly eliminated controlled flight into terrain by commercial aircraft, the... Read More »

Investment Fund Griffin Capital Acquires AT&T Washington Data Center for $40 M

2 February 2012, 9:24 am

February 2, 2012 -- Real estate investment trust company Griffin Capital has acquired a three-building, 155,830-square-foot office and data center fully occupied by AT&T Wireless Services located in Redmond, Washington, according to a report by GlobeSt.com. AT&T Wireless was previously using the dat... Read More »

Microsoft Announces Layoffs

2 February 2012, 4:14 am

Microsoft Corp. said on Wednesday that it had laid off some 200 employees as part of a major restructuring aimed at eliminating redundancies in its marketing division, the Associated Press reported. In a statement, Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft said its layoffs were part of the company’s eff... Read More »

Microsoft Creates Facebook Page To Address Issues In Washington State

31 January 2012, 7:18 am

Microsoft is based in Redmond, Washington, and they have always been a company that’s concerned about with the state in which they are based. They say that since Washington state houses more than 40,000 employees, they have a “huge stake” …... Read More »

Fly Away Simulation Visit the Microsoft Game Studios to Discuss "Microsoft Flight"

24 January 2012, 3:18 am

LONDON, Jan. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Microsoft held a press event at their Game Studios at Redmond, Washington in December 2011, to enable members of the community and press to discuss "Flight" ...... Read More »

Microsoft Brings the Cloud Down to Earth for Enterprises

17 January 2012, 8:41 am

REDMOND, Washington, January 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - System Center 2012 is a true "private cloud builder." In an online broadcast today from Microsoft Corp. headquarters, Satya Nadella, president of Microsoft Server and Tools Business, laid …... Read More »