Kent city officials have not yet sent out any notices of violation of city code to group homes housing sex offenders.
Four families were displaced by a Kent apartment fire at about 2:30 a.m. Thursday in the 22400 block of the Benson Road on the East Hill.
Ken Sharp is easily defeating Barbara Phillips and Bailey Stober in a primary race for a Kent City Council seat.
Kent Police arrested a man for investigation of fourth-degree assault after he reportedly punched another man in the city jail during a dispute over a sleeping mat in a holding cell.
The Washington State Liquor Control Board will hold five public hearings/special meetings across across the state Aug. 6-8 regarding the proposed rules for Initiative 502 implementation for the sale and manufacturing of recreational marijuana.
Collaborative artists Frances Nelson and Bradly Gunn will give unidentified grave sites at Saar Pioneer Cemetery in Kent an emblematic marker using a series of ‘thresholds,’ or doorways.
The Washington State Patrol and local law enforcement agencies will have extra patrols from Aug. 5-23 targeting distracted drivers using cellphones or texting while driving in King County.
A clash is underway in Kent between city officials and operators of 10 group homes that house sex offenders.
The city-owned ShoWare Center continues to lose money based on its operating budget. But a second economic impact study in two years by city-hired consultants shows the arena brings a lot of business to town.
A pregnant woman wearing a scrub top and brown jail pants allegedly walked away from the Valley Medical Center in Renton after Kent Police officers had transported her from the city jail to the hospital to be treated for spotting from her pregnancy.
Seattle Thunderbirds hockey fans can expect to see a young and rising star in center Mathew Barzal this season with the Kent-based team.
The King County Sheriff’s Office is looking for someone who is missing a box of cremated remains that were found last week near the Soos Creek Trail in unincorporated Kent.
A Kent man received a 37-month prison sentence Tuesday for his role in taking kickbacks on fraudulently inflated travel vouchers when he worked at Seattle's Veterans Affairs Hospital.
More than 10,000 Kent residents across the East Hill, West Hill and in the Valley are expected to participate Tuesday, Aug. 6 in National Night Out (NNO), a nationwide program aimed at reducing crime by neighbors getting to know each other.
Kent Police were part of the FBI Seattle Division task force that recovered three child victims and arrested nine people in Western Washington for investigation of child abuse and related crimes as part of a Operation Cross Country nationwide crackdown to address commercial child sex trafficking.
The trial date has been continued yet again for a man who reportedly made as much as $200,000 as a pimp in Kent and Seattle.
Neighbors are frustrated with the city of Kent's slow and calm action to combat fast and furious cars along a residential street.
Theatre Battery, a Kent contemporary theatre company, will present five showings of "Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead" on Aug. 1-4 in Suite 101 at the Kent Station shopping mall, 321 Ramsay Way.
If you hear a helicopter flying unexpectedly in your neighborhood, it could be from the King County Sheriff's Office.
A judge sentenced a repeat felon from Tacoma, who had been out of prison fewer than six months when he returned to drug dealing, to 14 years in prison in connection with a federal undercover sting last year in the Kent Valley.
