Mayor Suzette Cooke accused the City Council of treating the Kent Chamber of Commerce as another council member after it overturned her veto about how to spend business and occupation (B&O) tax revenue.
The city-owned ShoWare Center lost $74,100 in the first quarter of 2015 but several popular events later this year are already selling well.
An inmate was found dead in the King County jail at the Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent.
Candidates planning to run for office in the Aug. 4 Primary Election or the Nov. 3 General Election must file Monday, May 11 through Friday, May 15.
The salaries paid to mayors and city council members in other cities could play a large role in whether the Kent mayor and City Council members get pay raises.
Martrice Grant held up photos of his 1-year-old baby daughter at a Kent Police news conference on Monday and told people to come forward to help solve the murder of Malijah Grant on April 16 in Kent.
Mark down a couple of dates in May if you want to tell Sound Transit about where light rail routes and stations should go when the agency extends its line from SeaTac to Kent.
The staggering numbers are in for the first year of Kent's traffic camera program to catch speeders in school zones.
Kent Police are asking for the public's help to solve a drive-by shooting that killed a 1-year-old baby girl.
Numerous amenities at Kent city parks are slowly but surely starting to fall apart.
Newcastle Police arrested two Kent men and two Renton teens for investigation of residential burglary in connection with entering a home through an open window in the middle of the night while the family slept.
The city of Des Moines beat out Kent, Renton, SeaTac and other cities for the new Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Northwest Mountain Region offices.
A Kent Police officer resorted to punching a man two or three times in the head and face as officers struggled to get him into a patrol vehicle after he earlier had stepped in front of cars along South 277th Street.
A Kent man, his brother and their father received prison sentences last week in U.S. District Court in Tacoma for leading a Pierce County-based meth and heroin distribution ring.
City leaders decided it's time to form a volunteer task force to help figure out how to keep Kent financially sustainable.
Seattle developer Tarragon will receive a property tax break each year for eight years from the city of Kent for building the 154-unit Kent Station Apartments downtown.
About 2,600 city-owned street lights will get new LED lights later this year at a cost of $2.6 million that is expected to save the city approximately $230,000 a year in electricity costs.
The former Kent Highlands Landfill site on the West Hill continues to protect public health and the environment, according to a recent periodic review by the state Department of Ecology (DOE).
It took the city of Kent's controversial business and occupation (B&O) tax to cause Mayor Suzette Cooke to use her veto power over the City Council for the first time during her 10 years in office.
The weed-infested, busted-up traffic medians along Pacific Highway South in Kent will get a new look this year.
