Fire heavily damaged a portable at Scenic Hill Elementary School in Kent after a fire broke out in it shortly after midnight early Tuesday.
Firefighters responded late Monday afternoon to a house fire near 132nd Avenue Southeast and Southeast 266th Place on the East Hill, according to the Kent Fire Department Regional Fire Authority.
Expect plenty of music, games and fireworks at the city of Kent’s annual Fourth of July Splash at Lake Meridian Park.
The city of Kent will close East James Street on Saturday, June 25 through Friday, July 1 between Woodford Avenue North and Jason Avenue North to install catch basins and piping for a stormwater pump station to help reduce flooding on the street near Central Avenue.
Kent city officials are considering selling about 7 acres along Naden Avenue near downtown for development after dropping plans six years ago to build an aquatics center at the site.
The Kent City Council approved a six-month moratorium against the new four-member cooperatives to grow and cultivate marijuana for qualified medical patients that the state will allow, starting July 1.
Airways Brewing opened its new brewery and tap room on Tuesday in Kent at 8611 S. 212th St.
Ronald Moore has resigned as the Kent city clerk after three years on the job.
A man driving a stolen van took Kent Police on about a 1.7-mile, 69-second chase before an officer maneuvered a patrol vehicle to stop the van.
A $1.4 million plan to install concrete pavement along East James Street between Central Avenue and Jason Street looms as one of the primary city of Kent street projects for 2017.
Fire heavily damage an apartment Thursday morning in the 11100 block of Southeast 256th Street on the East Hill in Kent.
Kent could get its first light rail station a year later but a second one four years sooner under the proposed Sound Transit 3 (ST3) measure going before voters in November.
The woman who died in Kent last week when her car hit a tree has been identified as Diamond Ligan, a 50-year-old Federal Way woman.
Kent Police arrested a man and a woman for investigation of stealing a car, credit cards, checks, wallets, purses, tablet computers and more than 50 pieces of mail.
A 64-year-old Kent man remained in satisfactory condition on Monday at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle after he suffered injuries in a single-car crash on Saturday along Interstate 90 near Easton.
When Kent resident Pam Morgan took a close look at her garbage bill, she discovered a charge connected to a city of Kent tax that didn’t seem to add up.
Kent Police are investigating a single-car accident that killed a 50-year-old woman driver when her car smashed into a tree near South 200th Street and the East Valley Highway.
The Kent City Council approved an extensive Park and Open Space Plan on Tuesday night and now must figure out how to fund the proposal.
Kent Police responded to a report about a shirtless man in his 50s punching vehicles at about 1:18 p.m. on May 29 near the intersection of East James Street and Central Avenue North.
Drivers can expect delays along Pacific Highway South on Kent’s West Hill over the next few months as crews repair and plant center medians between South 240th Street and South 272nd Street.
