After a heated debate, the Kent City Council voted 4-3 on Tuesday night to approve a $5.9 million budget increase for the Kent Events Center.
No two court cases are the same to Ellen Bond.
Despite the hundreds of cases Bond has heard in 14 years as a clerk for Kent Municipal Court, the excitement remains.
“I like the court environment,” Bond said Tuesday, sitting in an empty jury room at the court on Central Avenue South. “You could do the same type of hearing and it’s never the same. It’s different every day. It’s exciting.”
Kent residents will have to wait until fall for Mill Creek Canyon Earthworks Park to reopen.
City officials closed the park to allow construction of a new flood-control dam at the park. The goal of the dam will be to control flooding of downtown streets during major storms.
Two men, one of them armed with a handgun, reportedly robbed a clerk July 3 at a service station in the 1200 block of Central Avenue North.
Kent detectives were still investigating Wednesday whether gang activity was behind the July 12 shooting death of a 17-year-old Renton boy at a Kent fast-food restaurant in the 300 block of East Smith Street.
Kent Police officer Jeff Cobb discovered just how tough it can be to paddle a kayak in Lake Washington during a relay race.
The Kent City Council decided to go young with the appointment of Jamie Danielson on Tuesday to the vacant Council position.
Steve Pinto corrected an interviewer’s comment that he sees a lot of the city on his job.
Kristi Rozdilsky walked through the opening of the Summer Art Exhibit Wednesday evening at the Centennial Center Gallery in downtown Kent and quickly formed an opinion.
A controversial proposal by developer Bill Floten to build 27 homes on the banks of Lake Meridian took one step forward last week.
The Kent City Council voted 5-1 July 1 to approve a rezone application by Floten to allow six homes per acre rather than 4.5 homes per acre on the 6.3-acre site on the lake’s northwest shore at 25840 135th Lane S.E.
But the development remains tied up in King County Superior Court on other matters connected to the proposal.
Kent Police shot two women with Taser guns to stop a fight between them at 1:30 a.m. June 23 outside a Kent gas station in the 1200 block of North Central Avenue.
Staffers told the Kent City Council last week that spending roughly $233,000 in repairs could extend the life of the Kent Meridian Pool for another five years.
When Fred Satterstrom attended his 40-year reunion for the Kent-Meridian class of 1967 last September, classmates gave him plenty of positive feedback about the City of Kent.
A Kent Police sting to catch customers of prostitutes resulted in the arrest of a woman for investigation of prostitution at 10:30 p.m. June 17 in the 25200 block of Pacific Highway South.
With so many trees, bushes and flowers to care for, Richard and Stella Land spend a lot of time in the backyard of their home on Scenic Hill, just east of downtown Kent.
City officials will throw a “Party at the Plaza” starting at 10 a.m. Saturday to celebrate the opening of Town Square Plaza Park, and to kick off a community health initiative.
About 20 people participated in “The Mayor’s Mile” to help kick off a new community health initiative as part of the Town Square Plaza Park dedication Saturday in downtown Kent.
Many children at Kent’s Fourth of July Splash at Lake Meridian Park ask the same question.
A roadblock has gone up for bicyclists, joggers and pedestrians along the Green River Trail in Kent.
A stay-at-home mom, an attorney and a middle school teacher are among the seven finalists for the vacant Kent City Council position.
