Two King County Fire District 37 commissioners were sworn in Jan. 19 during a short ceremony that preceded the monthly District 37 meeting of commissioners.
With the 2010 legislative session under way in Olympia, the Kent Chamber of Commerce has released its priorities for this session.
According to Executive Director Andrea Keikkala, the top priority for the chamber this session deal with the potential for flooding throughout the Green River Valley.
Kent city officials do not expect to cut any city jobs this year in order to meet a 2010 general fund budget of $80.3 million as well as a reserve balance of $6.3 million, or 8.1 percent of the general fund.
King County prosecutors Thursday filed first-degree robbery charges against a Renton man and a Kent man in connection with a drug deal gone bad and and gunshots Jan. 15 in Kent near an East Hill apartment complex.
All Kent School District families are invited to attend a “Getting School Ready” event on Jan. 21 at Springbrook Elementary.
Kent-Meridian and Kentridge High Schools are seeking community volunteers to help judge culminating senior projects.
The Washington State Patrol this past month visited the Kent School District’s transportation Department for its annual, unannounced inspection.
A 47-year-old Kent man was charged Jan. 15 with first-degree rape and first-degree kidnapping of a 14-year-old Federal Way girl.
The Washington State Department of Ecology and King County are taking proactive steps to help prevent toxic material from escaping the site of an old Kent auto-wrecking yard in the event of Green River flooding.
A Kent man was killed Saturday night when he lost control of his motorcycle, crashed and was struck by three vehicles as he lay in the roadway.
The state Department of Transportation reopened two lanes of westbound Highway 18 in Auburn at 3:23 a.m. Tuesday.
Editor's note: The following story is actually two stories: A separate account for each levy the Kent School District is putting before voters this month. Contact information, and where to get more information on the Web, also are included. Please read on.
In a surprise announcement during the Jan. 13 Kent School Board meeting, Director Chris Davies announced he was resigning from the board effective Feb. 11.
The King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office on Jan. 13 charged a 17-year-old Kent boy with first-degree assault in connection with the stabbing of 30-year-old Auburn man Jan. 9 near a Kent convenience store.
A King County Superior Court judge on Jan. 13 sentenced Tracy Floren to 30 years in prison for the shooting death of Floren’s wife in 2007 at their Panther Lake home in unincorporated Kent.
Kent Police were questioning three men and were looking for at least one other man Friday afternoon in connection with two shots fired from a shotgun near an East Hill apartment complex in the 11300 block of Southeast Kent-Kangley Road.
The westbound lanes of State Route 18 will remain closed until at least Jan. 20, after a second slide brought down approximately 1,500 cubic yards of mud, rocks and debris across all westbound lanes of the highway Jan. 14.
You are surrounded by people with runny noses, coughs and sore throats. And now your kids are showing signs of being sick. But what do they have and should you be worried?
Friday morning commuters up westbound Highway 18 in Auburn found themselves forced to detour to Peasley Canyon Road after a landslide closed all three lanes of traffic near the West Valley Highway and Highway 167.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, a national holiday, is Jan. 18. With schools and many businesses closed, including the City of Kent offices, Kent Parks… Continue reading
