The Kent City Council approved a $43,730 contract with a consultant to find ways to save money in the city budget.
Crews expect to remove the final giant sandbags this week from along the Green River levees in Kent.
An airplane part fell Friday morning in Kent in the middle of the street along Southeast 231st Way near 128th Place Southeast on the East Hill.
Residents are invited to testify in front of the Kent City Council about the 2013-14 biennial budget and the 2013-18 capital improvement plan.
Even two years before a car struck and killed one of their Kent neighbors two weeks ago, Matt and Allison Richner reached out to city officials to do something about the speeding vehicles along Southeast 223rd Drive.
An 18-year-old Kent man pleaded not guilty to a vehicular homicide charge in connection with the death Aug. 22 of a 55-year-old Kent motorcyclist in the Panther Lake area.
Fountainhead Northwest LLC has bought the four-building Centerpoint Corporate Park in Kent for $46.25 million.
A letter from the federal Drug Enforcement Administration threatening to shut down a Kent medical marijuana store because it's too near a school persuaded owner Charles Lambert to close the business.
SuperValu Inc. will close the only Albertsons store in Kent and one of two in Auburn as part of a shut down of 27 stores in Southern California, Oregon and Washington.
A Kent park will close starting Monday, Sept. 17 so a contractor can begin work on a $2.65 million project along the Green River to improve the Boeing Levee and provide better flood protection to the Kent Valley.
Seven groups are lined up in Kent for the Ladies Night Out, Volume 5 R&B concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 8 at the ShoWare Center.
The U.S. Department of Labor has sued telecommunications provider DirecTV and a Kent-based contractor with the company for allegedly failing to pay employees the federal minimum wage or for overtime when installation technicians worked more than 40 hours per week.
King County prosecutors have charged a 41-year-old Kent man with attempted promoting commercial sex abuse of a minor after he allegedly tried to pick up an undercover cop posing as a 17-year-old girl near the Westlake Center in Seattle.
Two families were displaced from their homes following an apartment fire at about 9:37 p.m. Monday in the 23700 block of 101st Place Southeast on Kent’s East Hill.
Fewer and fewer giant sandbags are blocking the Green River Trail in Kent.
A proposal to build 30 cottage housing units in Kent will be the subject of a public hearing at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 12.
As many as 40 positions could be cut at King County jails at the Norm Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent and the King County Correctional Facility in Seattle.
The return to competitive figure skating by Olympic champion Evan Lysacek in Kent continues to pick up momentum.
The city of Kent wants residents to take an online survey about future downtown development, including whether they would consider living downtown.
A 16-year-old Kent boy pleaded not guilty Thursday to two counts of first-degree rape and two-counts of first-degree kidnapping with sexual motivation.
