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People fill up downtown streets during Kent Cornucopia Days

Popular festival returns after two-year absence due to COVID-19

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Vehicle crashes into Kent restaurant; minor injuries to two patrons

Afternoon of July 8 at Pho Cat Sang restaurant in Panther Lake

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Gang members with ties to Kent shootings receive prison sentences

Each gets four years, six months for illegal firearm possession

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Firefighters extinguish two-alarm blaze at Kent warehouse

Wednesday evening, July 6 along South 194th Street

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Two Kent-based T-Birds taken in NHL Draft’s first round

Kevin Korchinski to Chicago with 7th pick; Reid Schaefer to Edmonton with 32nd pick

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Modern urban village theme chosen for new Kent Sounder station

Sound Transit to incorporate public feedback into design of garage scheduled to open in 2026

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Hard-working, well-known Kent Police Officer Jen Prusa retires

She helped lead Neighborhood Response Team; worked 13 years in Kent after 15 years in Cowlitz County

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Kent speaker will discuss race and racism in America

Hasan Kwame Jeffries, part of the city’s speaker series, is a history professor at Ohio State

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Battle of the Badges raises money for Kent, Federal Way food banks

Police officers from each city and Puget Sound Fire compete in grocery story showdown

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Kent apartment rents up 16.8% compared to June 2021

Median rents are $1,477 for a one-bedroom apartment, $1,904 for a two-bedroom

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Kent School District superintendent to get $355,000 per year

School board approves 3-year contract for Israel Vela; pay higher than recent hires in Seattle, Federal Way

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Tacoma man dies in Kent I-5 crash after making unsafe lane change

Thursday afternoon, June 30 northbound near State Route 516

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Kent School Board revotes on grant after Farah conflict raised

Director Awale Farah initially voted on funds that went to his wife’s organization Living Well Kent

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Proposal would clear longtime Green River homeless encampment

County Councilmember Reagan Dunn submits legislation for property near Kent, Auburn

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Cajun Food and Music Fest coming to downtown Kent Aug. 20

Outdoors at Burlington Green Park

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Fire displaces family of five from downtown Kent home

Nobody injured in Monday evening, June 27 blaze

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Kentridge High drama teacher earns Outstanding Educator award

Jennifer Grajewski honored by The Fifth Avenue Theatre; Kentwood, Kent-Meridian muscials also recognized

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Kent man charged in killing man who had an affair with his girlfriend

Des Moines man stabbed multiple times before body dumped in remote area near Skyway

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Kent Police involved in an officer-involved shooting

Nobody hit by shots but few details released by police about June 26 incident

A rendering of the new light rail station, near Pacific Highway South and 30th Avenue South, that will be called Kent Des Moines Station along the extension from SeaTac to Federal Way scheduled to open in 2024. COURTESY IMAGE, Sound Transit

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Sound Transit approves light rail station names in Kent, Federal Way

Kent Des Moines Station, Star Lake Station and Federal Way Downtown Station