Voters in Kent, Covington and King County Fire District 37 will decide this month whether they want to form a regional fire authority that would merge the Kent Fire Department and Fire District 37.
The Kent City Council voted unanimously April 6 to adopt a revised gambling ordinance to allow the Great American Casino to remain open when the city annexes the business and the rest of the Panther Lake area on July 1.
Tell the Kent City Council what you think of proposed 2010 budget cuts during a public hearing in front of the Council's Operations Committee at 4 p.m. April 20 in the Council Chambers at City Hall.
A King County Superior Court judge April 14 dismissed charges against a 22-year-old Kent man in connection with a series of incidents involving a partially clothed man along a trail near Kent-Meridian High School.
Garbage hauler contract talks between Waste Management and Teamsters Local 174 remained stalled Wednesday and no further talks were scheduled.
Mickey Fay once raced motorcycles on concrete oval tracks in the 1970s at the old Seattle Coliseum, the Memorial Coliseum in Portland and the Cow Palace in Northern California.
Dre' Mail Hardin returned a kickoff 54 yards for a touchdown on the final play to give the Kent Predators a 59-54 win over the Alaska Wild in a pro Indoor Football League game at the ShoWare Center.
The state Department of Health on April 2 suspended the credential of a certified nursing assistant charged with second-degree rape of a 71-year-old woman at a Kent assisted-living facility.
Voters in Kent, Covington and King County Fire District 37 will decide this month whether they want to form a regional fire authority that would merge the Kent Fire Department and Fire District 37.
Kent resident Brian Beston has pleaded guilty Apirl 9 to first-degree rape of a child, first-degree child molestation, sexual exploitation of a minor, and dealing in child pornography for raping a 4-year-old girl and sending videos of the sexual abuse to a pedophile in California. This is according to the King County Prosecutor's Office.
King County officials released a proposal Thursday for a new animal control and sheltering service starting July 1 that gives cities the option of buying into a regional model operated by the county or each city could leave the county program to run its own animal services department.
Garbage hauler contract talks between Waste Management and Teamsters Local 174 broke off Tuesday and no further talks were scheduled.
Kent Mayor Suzette Cooke recommended Tuesday night that the City Council make $7 million in spending cuts for the rest of this year because of declining revenues.
Kent Police arrested a 27-year-old man for investigation of possession of marijuana after a call to police to report a man jogging and smoking marijuana near 64th Avenue South and West Meeker Street.
Garbage hauler contract talks between Waste Management and Teamsters Local 174 are scheduled to continue Tuesday afternoon as the two sides try to reach a settlement and keep nearly 350 employees on the job in King and Snohomish counties, including the city of Kent.
Ruth Moody can't wait to get on the road again with The Wailin' Jennys.
Quientin Poil, Kent's parks supervisor for grounds, street trees and the nursery, didn't give up on his love for coaching baseball. He coached a select baseball team in Kent for about six years and for the last seven years has helped coach and run the Pierce County-based Puget Sound Baseball Club for players ages 10 to 18.
An independent review by three engineers has concluded the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is taking the right steps for temporary and permanent fixes to stop seepage through a damaged abutment next to the Howard Hanson Dam.
Garbage and recycling haulers from Teamsters Local 174 an 117 reached a tentative agreement on a new contract Wednesday night with Allied Waste Services, which serves nearly 16,200 Kent single-family homes.
A roundup of local egg hunts taking place over Easter weekend in Kent.
