In July the Kent Historical Museum will host a reception to celebrate the opening of its two new exhibits, a permanent period room display that depicts a child’s bedroom circa 1900 and a rotating display titled “A History of Fashion.”
The reception will be held during the Museum’s open hours from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, July 9 with admission a $5 donation. Complimentary refreshments will be served.
Kent International Festival | Slide Show
Kent drivers can expect traffic detours over the next few months along South 228th Street from 64th Avenue South to the Interurban Trail in connection with a $5.2 million project to install new storm drainage pipe to stop Mill Creek flooding.
Venoy Overton told Kent Police, according to court documents, that he drove an 18-year-old woman to Pacific Highway South in Kent and told her to "just walk," "hit me up when you're done," and that she ended up "turning a trick."
A 14-year-old Kent boy drove his mother’s car without permission in a reckless manner with his 14-year-old girlfriend as the passenger and reportedly caused a three-car collision at about noon Thursday along southbound Interstate 5 near I-405 by the Southcenter Mall in Tukwila.
The job cuts in the Kent School District won't be quite as deep as expected for 2011-12.
A 20-year-old Federal Way woman died early Friday morning after being injured in a two-vehicle accident Wednesday as a passenger in a pickup driven by a Kent man on Interstate 90 near Cle Elum.
If death and taxes are two certain facts of life, a third is if property taxes jump dramatically howls will be heard throughout the community.
City of Kent officials and the Kent Regional Fire Authority found the third fact to be true when the 2011 property tax statements were sent to businesses and homeowners earlier this year.
Kent Police arrested Venoy Overton, a former University of Washington basketball player, Thursday for investigation of second-degree promoting prostitution, a class C felony.
Lindsey Cook remembers as a little girl first meeting Don Vandel in the Kent restaurant owned by her parents.
“Even when he was not dressed as Santa Claus, I called him Santa,” Cook said during a Tuesday phone interview. “He looked like Santa Claus.”
Latin jazz, folk tunes, bluesy rock, extraordinary juggling and a pirate will grace Kent stages as part of the city of Kent's annual Summer Concert Series.
A preschool-age child playing with a lighter caused a Kent apartment fire at about 8:35 a.m. Wednesday in the 27400 block of 129th Place Southeast, according to a Kent Fire Department media release.
Anyone interested in starting up a Neighborhood Block Watch program can attend a Block Watch 101 class offered by the Kent Police.
Contract negotiations between the teachers union and the Kent School District are "going well" so far after three meetings over the last few weeks.
King County prosecutors have charged two men with seven counts of first-degree trafficking in stolen property for allegedly taking more than $1 million worth of items from the Office Depot warehouse in Kent.
The city of Kent will receive a John D. Spellman Award for Exemplary Achievement in Historic Preservation from King County for its work to restore Mill Creek Canyon Earthworks Park and other projects.
4th Annual Cruzin’ Passport Summer Health Challenge | Slide Show
Puget Sound Energy filed a proposal with state regulators Monday to increase electric rates by 8.1 percent and natural gas rates by 3 percent for all customers starting in May 2012.
A record number of people applied for rental assistance from the King County Housing Authority. But few will be chosen to receive assistance.
Nine Kent School District schools were among the 77 schools in 12 districts that earned recognition this spring for their successful conservation efforts from the King County Green Schools Program.
