As 18-year-old Rajjat Chauhan prepares to start his senior year at Kentlake High School, he is also getting ready to compete in the International Powerlifting League World Championships in November in Las Vegas.
The Washington State Labor Council (WSLC) has taken action in hopes of re-establishing shared governance between Green River College administration and faculty and staff and improving morale on campus.
The U.S. Department of Education has given state education officials an allowance to correct a Kent School District clerical error in 2012 that put the highly qualified status of 177 teachers in question.
A clerical error in 2012 has left 181 teachers in the Kent School District having to reconfirm their status as highly qualified teachers, and 72 of those teachers, who teach Title 1 core subjects, have until school starts Aug. 31 to do so.
Theatre Battery, a local theater company geared at bringing theater to Kent, has extended its run of "A Maze" by offering two free shows, at 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday, Aug. 6 and 7, at Kent Station, 434 Ramsay Way, Suite 103.
Jimmy Shane spends his working days as an integration engineer in Kent. But on weekends, the 29-year-old Covington man is a fierce competitor with a zeal to race high-powered hydroplanes.
Family members of several Seattle Seahawks football players will host a parent empowerment event on Thursday, July 30, at the ShoWare Center, 625 W. James St. in Kent.
Two Green River College programs will be shut down in a cost-saving effort, and more cuts could follow as the college faces a $2.5 million to $3.5 million budget deficit.
Just two years after taking up rowing, Grace Herbert has her eyes set on one day making the women's junior national crew team.
Kent School District employees will get a 5.5 percent pay raise for the upcoming school year. The school board approved the increases at a special meeting Tuesday night.
Becka Gately's love of fitness inspired her to organize and promote a health and fitness night at Kent's Panther Lake Elementary School.
In his first month on the job, Kent School District Superintendent Calvin Watts is establishing ties in the community and setting goals.
More than 500 runners and walkers took to a portion of the Green River Trail last Saturday to participate in the Kent Cornucopia Days 5K fun run.
With hopes of bringing theater culture to Kent, Logan Ellis, a Kent-Meridian High School graduate, and several friends and classmates started a production company in 2011.
For Ken and June Iverson, Kent will always be home.
Beginning this fall, Kentridge High School students can study information technology and earn college credits through a partnership with Green River College.
For former Kentwood High School girl's basketball star Kylie Huerta, playing for the world-famous Harlem Globetrotters was beyond her wildest dreams.
A dispute broke out in court on Monday in Kent among friends and relatives of two men involved in the June 11 West Hill shooting death.
Two Springbrook Elementary School students and their father were killed last Saturday evening in a two-vehicle car accident in southwest Washington while returning from a family vacation to the Columbia River Gorge.
About 350 athletes swam, biked and ran the Lake Meridian Triathlon last Sunday.
