Cigarette ashes started a small fire at about 11 a.m. Thursday at an office building in the 400 block of West Titus Street in downtown Kent.
Kent Police arrested a 23-year-old Kent man and a 21-year-old Covington woman Wednesday night for investigation of theft in connection with several recent incidents at East Hill businesses.
There's going to be little to nothing to see of the women's Lingerie Football League this year in Kent.
Kent firefighters rescued 13 ducklings that had fallen into a storm drain Tuesday morning on the East Hill.
The state Attorney General's Office has charged a Kent businessman with four counts of first-degree theft and one count of forgery for allegedly receiving $19,459 from the state for a job injury claim even though he had returned to work.
Sensible Washington, which filed an initiative last month with the city of Kent to let voters decide whether the city should make marijuana offenses the lowest enforcement priority by Kent Police, received the go-ahead from Kent City Attorney Tom Brubaker to start to collect signatures.
Two employees of the Valley Communications Center in Kent are being honored as King County Emergency Medical Dispatchers of the Year.
It is expected to take at least until Wednesday before Kent Fire Department investigators can enter a destroyed recycling facility for carpeting and carpet padding to try to determine the cause of the fire.
Friends, family and the Kent Police all seem to come up with the same response about the disappearance three years ago of 21-year-old Alyssa McLemore.
Ten people were displaced as a two-alarm fire caused an estimated $600,000 damage to six apartments on Kent's West Hill.
Saxophonist Darren Motamedy will return to Kent to play in the fifth annual Evening of Jazz & Art Showcase June 28 at the Kent Senior Activity Center.
Expect to see large numbers of emergency vehicles traveling and in the parking lots of Kent's ShoWare Center on eight days over the next four weeks as part of a mass casualty incident drill.
Sex trafficking continues to be a growing problem in Kent and the rest of the nation.
The trial date has been continued to June 20 for a 31-year-old Oregon man charged with first-degree murder in the May 2010 stabbing death of Seth Frankel a city of Kent employee and Auburn resident.
Gene Mueller, the administrator of Chicago’s largest critical-care veterinary hospital, was named Wednesday as the new manager of Regional Animal Services of King County.
The Machinists Union says management at Kent's Hytek Finishes rejected an offer from the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service to help resolve contract talks.
Matt Hague, a former Kentwood High School star, has made the Major League Baseball roster of the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Kent Police will throw a spotlight Saturday, April 7 on the role liquor serving establishments play in keeping drunk drivers off the road.
Kent Police arrested a woman for investigation of prostitution after an undercover officer replied to an escort advertisement on www.backpage.com.
The Metropolitan King County Council Monday appointed former Kent Police Chief Steve Strachan to succeed Sue Rahr as King County Sheriff.
