The Kent Fire Department will host its first Community Assistance Referral and Education Services (FDCARES) charity golf tournament on Thursday, Aug. 9 at Meridian Valley Country Club in Kent.
The city-owned ShoWare Center took a deeper loss than expected in the second quarter of this year because of an additional $100,000 business and occupation tax payable to the state Department of Revenue.
The Kent City Council is seeking volunteers to write the statements that will appear in the voters’ pamphlet both for, and against, a property tax measure to pay to maintain and improve existing parks and streets.
Find out all about the career of former drag racer Jerry "The King" Ruth at a special program Aug. 23 in Kent.
The Allegro Performing Arts Academy in Kent has been named one of the top 60 dance studios in the nation and among the top 10 in the Pacific Northwest.
The Seattle rock band Random Manor plays at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 2 at Lake Meridian Park in Kent.
Seattle-based Sensible Washington announced Tuesday that it will try to get a statewide initiative in 2013 to ask voters to repeal adult marijuana prohibition in the state.
Kent voters will decide Nov. 6 whether to approve a property tax levy increase to help pay for city park and street repairs.
A 26-year-old Kent man was shot in the neck during an altercation with another man Tuesday night in a Burien convenience store parking lot.
Caspar Babypants, a popular entertainer in the Seattle are for children and adults, performs Wednesday, Aug. 1 in Kent.
Basketball players of all ages filled up temporary courts at the ShoWare Center parking lot on Saturday and Sunday in Kent.
The Kent City Council will have a special meeting at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 31 at City Hall, 220 Fourth Ave. S., to consider a proposed funding package for streets and parks, including whether to refer a property tax measure to voters on the Nov. 6 ballot.
The Neely-Soames Historic Homestead in Kent will have its annual open house Saturday, Aug. 18, to let visitors get a glimpse of the way residents lived in 1885.
Seattle singer Kellee Bradley performs at noon Tuesday, July 31 at the Kent Station shopping mall as part of the city of Kent Summer Concert Series.
Two men were injured near the Kent-Auburn border after their van left the roadway and rolled over at about 11:30 p.m. Saturday, July 28 along southbound Highway 167.
Crews are expected to start work in mid-August on a $2.65 million project along the Green River to improve the Boeing Levee and provide better flood protection to the Kent Valley.
King County prosecutors have charged a 44-year-old Kent woman and her 32-year-old boyfriend with promoting commercial sexual abuse of a minor for allegedly setting up a 15-year-old girl and two other girls to work as prostitutes.
The state Department of Ecology proposes to remove a Kent property from a statewide list of contaminated sites because it has been shown to meet state cleanup standards.
Five Kent workplaces were part of 92 companies named to the 2012 Best Workplaces for Recycling and Waste Reduction list by the King County Solid Waste Division.
Metal thieves could make it tougher to fight fires in Kent.
