It won't take long for the Kent Predators to find out how well they can compete in the professional Indoor Football League.
The Predators open the season Feb. 28 at the Billings (Mont.) Outlaws, the defending league champion and a franchise that has played in several indoor leagues over the last nine years.
A Kirkland developer has returned to Kent city officials with a revised application for a proposed East Hill commercial development that the City Council denied two years ago.
The Kent City Council voted 6-0 Feb. 16 to recommend voters approve an April 27 ballot measure to form a regional fire authority merging the Kent Fire Department and King County Fire District 37.
The Green River Glass Show isn't just for Depression-era glass items anymore.
Steve Armstrong perked up when he heard about temporary jobs for the U.S. Census Bureau at a community jobs forum hosted by local state legislators Feb. 20 at Kent City Hall.
Dog lovers are pumped that there could be a new off-leash park coming this summer to Kent's East Hill.
Kent city officials are working with residents in an effort to open a canine-friendly park on an undeveloped 3-acre site between Morrill Meadows Park and East Hill Park along Southeast 248th Street. The city-owned site sits just east of 104th Avenue Southeast.
The Kent Predators players are ready for some football.
Receiver Blaine McConnell, one of two dozen or so players who attended the Predators kickoff press conference Friday at the ShoWare Center, can't wait to get out on the field to play in the professional Indoor Football League.
Few players have as much fun playing basketball as the Harlem Globetrotters. They also make sure the fans join in that fun.
A Seattle-area developer still wants to build a six-to-seven story, mixed-use apartment complex in the Mill Creek neighborhood on the edge of downtown Kent.
A 2-year-old boy remained in serious condition Thursday at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle after falling Wednesday morning from a second-story window at a Kent home in the 11700 block of Southeast 268th Street on the East Hill.
The Washington state Senate approved a bill Feb. 9 that could help as many as several hundred businesses in Kent, Auburn, Tukwila and Renton obtain hard-to-find supplemental flood insurance.
The Roger Newton Model Radio-Controlled Hydroplane show runs 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Feb. 13 at the museum, located at 5917 S. 196th St.
Racers will display more than 60 scale models of unlimited hydroplanes during the second-annual show, which will include gas- and electric-powered boats.
Malicious mischief
Kent Police cited a 24-year-old man for investigation of third-degree malicious mischief Jan. 20 after he reportedly broke a mirror and punched holes in the walls of his girlfriend's apartment.
The incident occurred 1:38 a.m. at an apartment in the 10700 block of Southeast 256th Street.
The state Liquor Control Board reduced a $500 fine to $300 against the ShoWare Center operators after eight vendors were caught selling alcohol to minors.
A Kent man and a Renton man each pleaded not guilty Tuesday morning in Kent to first-degree robbery charges in connection with an alleged drug deal that went bad Jan. 15 near a Kent apartment complex.
Kent city staff told the City Council Tuesday that a small work group of King County and city officials from throughout the county expect to have a recommendation by March 31 regarding a new regional model for animal control and sheltering.
Kent Mayor Suzette Cooke couldn't say goodbye quickly enough to 2009, during her fifth-annual State of the City Address at the Kent Chamber of Commerce luncheon Wednesday at the ShoWare Center.
The International Guitar Night tour has gone even better than expected for Brian Gore.
“This is my 10th tour and it really is truly the best one yet,” Gore said in a phone interview Friday prior to a concert in Helena, Mont.
Gore, the founder of International Guitar Night, joins Stephen Bennett, Itamar Erez and Lulo Reinhardt for a concert 7:30 p.m. Feb. 5 at the Kent-Meridian High School Performing Arts Center, 10020 S.E. 256th St.
A 47-year-old Kent man pleaded not guilty Jan. 25 in King County Superior Court in Kent to first-degree rape and first-degree kidnapping of a 14-year-old Federal Way girl.
A 17-year-old Kent teenager pleaded not guilty Jan. 28 to first-degree malicious mischief in connection with an attack of a Metro bus driver Jan. 23 in Tukwila.
