Hire-wire acts, speeding motorcycles in a steel globe, aerial gymnasts, flying dogs and clowns are each part of the Boom A Ring circus presented by Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey.
Volunteers are needed Sept. 27-29 in Kent, Tukwila and other selected cities across the state to help count people who bicycle or walk to their destinations.
If you want to take time to stop and smell the flowers, then check out the more than 3,000 blooms at the annual Puget Sound Dahlia Association show Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 27-28 at Kent Commons, 525 Fourth Ave. N.
The Wastemobile will be at the Kent Fire Station No. 75 parking lot from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Aug. 19-21.
A 31-year-old Fairbanks, Alaska man suffered injuries when his vehicle left the freeway on northbound Interstate 5 in Kent and came to rest in a ditch.
The city of Kent will host a railroad wayside horn demonstration 4 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 18 at Titus Railroad Park (NE corner of First Ave S. and W Titus St.) Downtown businesses, residents and the general public are invited to learn more about railroad quiet zones and hear the wayside horn demonstration.
King County Sheriff's detectives arrested a 25-year-old man for his alleged role in the Aug. 16 White Center.
The arrest was made at 4:30 p.m. Aug. 17.
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Primary election results for Wednesday, April 17
The first blush of primary election results Tuesday showed some interesting numbers in the Kent City Council, Valley Medical Center Commissioner and King County Veterans and Human Services Levy votes.
King County primary election first results
Residents can testify about proposed city of Kent code amendments at a public hearing at 7 p.m. Monday, Aug. 22 before the Land Use and Planning Board at Council Chambers at City Hall, 220 Fourth Ave. S.
Kent Police have identified the body found Aug. 5 as a missing 49-year-old Kent woman.
Vehicle owners will pay an extra $20 license fee in each of the next two years to help fund Metro Transit.
Take a bit of time for the city of Kent's final Take-Out Tuesdays concert of the summer from noon to 1 p.m. Aug. 16 at Kent Station Plaza, 417 Ramsay Way.
A Kent man was the Bloggers’ Choice Award Winner at the second annual Foster Farms Fresh Chicken Cooking Contest.
A Kent teen won the Masters Division of the 2011 Pokémon Trading Card Game World Championships Aug. 12-14 in San Diego.
The Kent animal shelter is now the King County Pet Adoption Center.
Engineers, geologists and other scientists continue to run a battery of tests on the right abutment drainage improvements at the Howard Hanson Dam.
Voters only have a few more days to cast their votes in the 2011 primary election. Ballots must be returned by Tuesday, Aug. 16. Ballots must be postmarked by that day or in a ballot drop box by 8 p.m. Some ballot drop box locations have changed, so be sure to check the voters’ pamphlet or the King County Elections website for an updated list.
