A town hall meeting was the top entertainment recently in Covington with the 47th-District legislators from Olympia presenting some good news and some troubling predictions.
The Kent Police Department will offer its next Community Police Academy starting on April 20. Registration is open now.
The goal of the Community Police Academy is to develop lasting partnerships by increasing the public’s knowledge about law enforcement, according to a Kent Police media release.
For community members curious about the workings of their police department, this is an opportunity to get an inside look at the Kent Police Department.
A 21-year-old Kent woman was injured after a car she was a passenger in crashed at about 12:05 a.m. Friday in the Mount Baker Tunnel on Interstate 90 in Seattle.
State Patrol troopers arrested 29 DUI drivers in a 12-hour period during a crackdown St. Patrick's Day evening in King County.
A former teacher in the Kent and Renton school districts pleaded guilty Thursday to first-degree sexual misconduct with a minor for having sexual conduct with a 17-year-old male student in June when she was a teacher at Garfield High School in Seattle.
The La Crosse Spartans rushed for five touchdowns and crushed the Kent Predators 66-28 in a professional Indoor Football League game Thursday in Wisconsin.
If America doesn't know about the singing abilities of Kent's Stefano Langone, they know him now.
The former Kentwood High School student nailed Simply Red's version of "If You Don't Know Me by Now" on "American Idol" Wednesday night.
With the slogan “Let’s make our mark – and cover theirs!” serving as inspiration, service clubs and volunteer groups from throughout Kent will celebrate the arrival of spring this year by working to cover up graffiti around the city.
Pianist Alpin Hong, in Kent for a March 18 concert, also took time to stop by a few schools for educational outreach assemblies.
Kent's Stefano Langone and the rest of the "American Idol" final 12 contestants will sing songs from the year they were born on Wednesday night's show on Fox.
The city of Kent is sponsoring a teen job fair from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. March 19 at the Kent Parks Community Center, 11000 S.E. 264th St., Kent (Also known as the Kent Phoenix Academy).
The Rainier Chorale was one of seven groups that received a total of $8,450 in February from the Kent Arts Commission for 2011 projects.
To help unite families and friends in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan, Comcast announced Tuesday it will provide free calls to Japan for its Xfinity Voice and Business Class Voice customers.
King County prosecutors have charged a 41-year-old man with first-degree theft in connection with allegedly conning $2.3 million from a Kent businessman.
Kent attorney Mark Prothero will talk about defending Gary Ridgway, also known as the Green River Killer, at the April 6 Kent Chamber of Commerce monthly membership luncheon.
The luncheon goes from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Meridian Valley Country Club, 24830 136th Ave. S.E.
Ready to recycle items that have been sitting around the house? Then take the items to the city of Kent's Special Recycling Event from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. March 19 at Russell Road Park, 24400 Russell Road.
About 50 people were evacuated from apartments Sunday night in the 1400 block of West Smith Street in Kent after multiple reports of breathing problems by residents.
Food vendors are wanted to participate in the city of Kent's 14th annual Fourth of July Splash.
The festival runs from noon to 11 p.m. July 4 at Lake Meridian Park.
Federal-Way-based World Vision, which has its storage facilities in Kent, is mobilizing relief supplies and psychological assistance to assist the earthquake- and tsunami-ravaged cities of Japan.
As earthquake aftershocks and the threat of nuclear meltdowns continue to rock the Japanese island of Honshu, Kent's sister city of Tamba appears to have ridden out the storm intact.
Minako Fushida, a resident of Tamba who hosted this reporter in 2008, reported Friday that they were safe.
"I and my mom are living very far from the center point of the earthquake," she said in an e-mail. My family is fine."
Watching the devastation unfold on television, she added, "we are really shocked."
