Commissioner of Public Lands Peter Goldmark has banned all outdoor fires on lands protected by the Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR), including campfires in all state, local and private campgrounds.
A Kent man received a 37-month prison sentence Tuesday for his role in taking kickbacks on fraudulently inflated travel vouchers when he worked at Seattle's Veterans Affairs Hospital.
More than 10,000 Kent residents across the East Hill, West Hill and in the Valley are expected to participate Tuesday, Aug. 6 in National Night Out (NNO), a nationwide program aimed at reducing crime by neighbors getting to know each other.
Ginuwine and Jon B are among the headliners at a R&B Ladies Night Out concert at 8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 2 at the ShoWare Center in Kent.
The Kent-based Institute for Community Leadership received a $275,000 grant in Washington's new capital budget for purchase of the program's office building, ensuring continuation of agency operations, along with $270,000 from the state's operating budget to provide a nonviolence and leadership training program over the next two years.
Kent Police were part of the FBI Seattle Division task force that recovered three child victims and arrested nine people in Western Washington for investigation of child abuse and related crimes as part of a Operation Cross Country nationwide crackdown to address commercial child sex trafficking.
The USO Northwest recently was granted $335,000 from the Employees Community Fund of Boeing Puget Sound.
The trial date has been continued yet again for a man who reportedly made as much as $200,000 as a pimp in Kent and Seattle.
Two people are staying with family following a house fire in the 14300 block of Southeast 262 Street on Sunday evening.
Neighbors are frustrated with the city of Kent's slow and calm action to combat fast and furious cars along a residential street.
If you hear a helicopter flying unexpectedly in your neighborhood, it could be from the King County Sheriff's Office.
A judge sentenced a repeat felon from Tacoma, who had been out of prison fewer than six months when he returned to drug dealing, to 14 years in prison in connection with a federal undercover sting last year in the Kent Valley.
Drivers can expect traffic delays Monday and Tuesday July 29-30 in Kent along westbound West James Street from Washington Avenue North to 64th Avenue as crews grind the road the first day and pave it the next day.
The Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities (NWCCU) reaccredited Green River Community College, with campuses in Auburn and Kent, for seven years.
Some progress was made on Kent's downtown strategic plan Monday night at a city Land Use and Planning Board meeting, with key voices in favor of and against rezoning specific areas downtown.
The U.S. Department of State has awarded Thomas Pham, a Kentwood High School student, one of 65 scholarships to study abroad on the Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study (YES) Abroad program.
Firefighters from three fire departments contained a brush fire at about 4:41 p.m. Wednesday in the 30400 block of 148th Avenue Southeast in unincorporated Kent.
Surgery is difficult duty. That's what Salma Ramadan concluded after getting the feel of the operating room at Tacoma General Hospital last Friday.
As the hottest month of the year approaches, the Washington State Patrol is urging adults to never leave a young child alone in a vehicle - especially in the sun.
Kent city officials plan to make a number of minor changes next year in the city's new business and occupation (B&O) tax, including the exemption of homeowners associations that are now required to pay the tax on gross receipts of its dues.
