Residents will soon see $4 million of work start on new traffic medians along Pacific Highway South; improved salmon habitat and floodplain storage along the Green River; and a new bicycle/pedestrian trail in the Kent Valley.
A volunteer task force says city leaders need to focus on five primary areas to keep Kent financially viable.
A man reportedly crawled through an open window into a Kent home while the family slept and stole a vehicle and two laptops.
The father of a 1-year-old baby girl killed in a drive-by shooting last year in Kent faces two counts of first-degree promoting prostitution for allegedly forcing an 18-year-old woman to give him all the money she made working as a prostitute in Seattle.
Crews from Kent Regional Fire Authority and Renton Fire Department responded to a commercial fire just before 7 a.m. Monday in the 8100 block of South 216th Street in Kent.
Business and occupation tax revenue keeps rolling in to the city of Kent.
Kent Police recently arrested a 13-year-old girl for investigation of robbery after she allegedly robbed a bank.
The city-owned ShoWare Center turned a profit in the first quarter of this year just as it did in the final quarter of 2015.
The city of Kent could get the Green River levee system accredited by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) if enough repairs are made over the next two years.
The Togo’s sandwich chain plans to open a restaurant at Kent Station.
The state Department of Agriculture plans a gypsy moth spray treatment on Wednesday in Kent.
Kent’s water remains very safe, said city water superintendent Sean Bauer.
Getting more visitors to town remains a priority for the Kent City Council.
Things took a quick change for the worse when a fired package delivery driver in Kent refused to leave his former workplace.
The city of Kent’s Riverbend Golf Complex moved a step closer to getting a new irrigation well.
Divers didn’t find anybody inside a vehicle discovered Monday afternoon in the Green River near the 25000 block of Frager Road in Kent.
Latasha Walker’s relatives erupted in cheers on Friday afternoon at a Kent courtroom when a judge gave Corey Mann the 40-year maximum prison sentence for the 2013 fatal beating of the 24-year-old woman at her Kent apartment.
Kent city staff should know this fall the estimated cost to remodel four city buildings to provide more office space.
Paramedics took a woman to a local hospital with non-life threatening injuries Wednesday evening after another vehicle struck her SUV from behind in the 12700 block of Southeast 240th Street.
The taxpayers’ tab for the Kent City Council’s decision to terminate the Pine Tree Park sale is $800,000 – $40,000 higher than what city staff initially released.
