With temperatures set to flirt with record highs all week, the city of Kent is opening up a pair of cooling centers to help resident… Continue reading
Lynn Gering, the chief appraiser in the King County Assessor’s Office for the past 11 years, was unanimously appointed Monday by the Metropolitan King County… Continue reading
The city of Kent has agreed to pay $400,000 to settle a civil lawsuit filed against the city by a man who was shot and… Continue reading
Before they left their small towns back in Norway for the more than 4,400-mile journey to Kent, Alise Johannessen Hjellbrekke, 16, and Ragnhild Kringlen, 15,… Continue reading
A head-on crash injured two men at about 3:30 p.m. Friday on the West Valley Highway near South 208th Street.Both drivers, who were alone in… Continue reading
A 30-year-old, pregnant Federal Way woman sustained minor injuries after her car veered off of West Valley Highway at about 11 a.m. Friday and ran… Continue reading
High levels of ozone pollution (smog) are being forecast by the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency for the Cascade foothills of King and Pierce counties,… Continue reading
Drivers should expect delays on Saturday night as crews shift northbound I-405 traffic onto the new bridge over Oakesdale Avenue Southwest. The work requires lane… Continue reading
John and Carol McConnell have both been blind since birth. Each was born prematurely and that affected their vision, leaving both to spend their lives… Continue reading
Kent resident Debbe Carson wants residents to know that people do steal mail out of mailboxes. She's had mail taken twice in June, for a… Continue reading
A King County female child died on July 18 from complications of H1N1 influenza (swine flu) and her underlying health conditions. This is the second… Continue reading
A 25-year-old Kent man was sentenced Monday to 16 1/2 years in prison for the murder last year of a 75-year-old Federal Way woman.Joseph Njonge,… Continue reading
The City of Kent learned Wednesday that the ShoWare Center, its new multi-purpose sports and entertainment facility, has been awarded LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold certification by the U.S. Green Building Council. This designation makes ShoWare Center, managed by SMG, the first sports arena in North America to achieve such a rating.
Numerous salmon-restoration projects are hatching along the Green River by federal and local governments, in an effort to boost the number of fish in the… Continue reading
In his first few weeks on the job, new Kent School District Superintendent Edward Lee Vargas made it a point to tour all of the… Continue reading
Besides working to stop leaks at the Howard Hanson Dam, U.S. Army Corps officials face another major challenge - getting fish safely through it.This week… Continue reading
Car washers in Kent raised approximately $3,300 Saturday to help a 4-year-old California boy recovering from an attack by his father, who mutilated the child’s… Continue reading
A small plane landed on the drag strip at Pacific Raceways located at 31001 144th Ave SE, Kent according to Tim Perciful, spokesman for Mountain… Continue reading
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plans to construct a grout curtain by November to slow the water leaking through a damaged abutment at the Howard Hanson Dam.
