Kent city jail to house inmates from Federal Way
Cities near agreement for at least five spaces per day by end of year
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Kent American Legion Post 15 holds annual Flag Retirement ceremony
Chriss R. Moen, legionnaire of American Legion Post 15, Kent, and Boy Scout Troop 406 prepare for the annual Flag… Continue reading
Business
Washington’s average wage tops $65,000 in 2018
Washington’s average annual wage grew by 5.5 percent in 2018 to $65,301, according to the state Employment Security Department –… Continue reading
Group buys Kent’s Bryson Square Apartments for $43.2 million
198-unit complex built in 1988 on East Hill
50 electric buses coming to local transit agencies; $13.3M from VW settlement used to reduce diesel pollution
Makerspaces essential solution to job gap | SBA
Half Lion Public House opens at Kent’s Riverbend Golf Complex
Red Cross offers free smoke alarms and installation
Café on Fourth serves up opportunity in downtown Kent
Sports
Sanders to be instructor at Thunderbirds Skills Camp
School on ice returns in August at accesso ShoWare Center
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Life
KBAC’s Juneteenth celebration returns to Morrill Meadows Park
Event commemorates important day in African-American history
Opinion
Legislature: History, investigations and new laws
The 2019 session of the Legislature included controversy, compromise, surprise, new law and more.
Northwest
Rick Steves to give $1 million yearly to stop climate change
“If we are in the travel business, we are contributing to the destruction of our environment,” he said.
No good solution to the plastics problem
Plastic is piling up everywhere from King County to ocean floors, and humans keep making more.
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Kent public charter school to close
Kent man pleads guilty to online threats to Trump’s family, Jewish community
Half Lion Public House opens at Kent’s Riverbend Golf Complex
Kent Police pursuits up 37 percent in 2018
Sound Transit Board approves three sites to study for light rail maintenance facility
City of Kent targets railroad quiet zone in 2022
Kent groups receive voter education funds