To commemorate the National Day of Service this year, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in conjunction with the Catholic Community Services, Children’s Therapy Center, the Forgotten Children’s Fund, the city of Kent and local food banks are sponsoring the North America Northwest Area Day of Service 2011.
The professional Indoor Football League is leaving Kent and the ShoWare Center after just two seasons.
The Washington State Department of Natural Resources asks campers, woods workers and other forest visitors to be especially careful with fire this weekend.
The King County-owned Aukeen Courthouse will be sold to the city of Kent for $5.6 million in a deal brokered by King County Executive Dow Constantine and approved unanimously today by the Metropolitan King County Council.
The Kent School Board unanimously approved a $308 million budget on Aug. 24 for the 2011-12 school year that is $18 million less than last year and includes 78 fewer jobs.
Jason Fiorito is fighting a war where victory means keeping his business, Pacific Raceways, operating.
It's a war which has multiple fronts.
Starting Aug. 31 the Move Over/Slow Down message will be displayed on six digital bill boards in Kent and one Tacoma digital bulletin board to educate drivers on the emergency zone law.
The start of school is just around the corner. For a healthy and safe 2011-2012 school year, every parent’s back-to-school checklist should include making sure children are up-to-date in their immunizations.
Recent cases of pertussis in Washington, the unusually high number of imported measles cases in the United States this year and an ongoing mumps outbreak in neighboring British Columbia are all important reminders that vaccine preventable diseases remain a threat to health.
Debbie Hernandez trembled as she sat down Friday afternoon at Kent City Hall in front of television cameras to ask the public to help solve the murder of her brother-in-law.
Members of the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Apprehension Task Force arrested a woman in Kent for investigation of robbery in connection with a Belltown ATM case in Seattle.
A common practice for a criminal when asked by the police for their name is to use a false one, according to the Washington State Patrol. But it just got easier for police to confirm a suspect’s real identity.
Kent residents are invited to participate in National Public Lands Day by pruning and weeding from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Sept. 24 at Lake Fenwick Park, 25828 Lake Fenwick Road.
If you love cars, or know someone who does, plan to attend the Kent Downtown Partnership’s Inaugural Hot Rod and Custom Car Show from 8-3 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 27.
The Kent School District and the teachers union reached a tentative agreement on a new contract.
An electrical fire caused an estimated $2,000 damage at about 10 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 25 to a Kent mobile home in the 22000 block of 84th Avenue South.
With no "significant leads or suspects" in the shooting death Aug. 19 of a 27-year-old Kent man, Kent Police want the public's help to find the person responsible.
The Neely-Soames Historic Homestead celebrated its 10th anniversary with an open house and tour Aug. 20.
Copper-wire thieves struck the Bonneville Power Administration substation in Covington for the second time in five months.
A fundraising event is planned this week for Messiah's Hands and Feet Outreach and its founder Marc Elmore, who is ill with cancer.
Kent city crews will install new flashing signals to alert drivers to slow down for school zones at Scenic Hill, Kent and Meadow Ridge elementary schools.
