U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at SeaTac International Airport on Feb. 17 arrested a Kent man on an outstanding National Crime Information Center felony warrant for vehicular assault.
Kent is in the running for federal headquarters that could bring approximately 2,000 jobs to the area.
Dog lovers are pumped that there could be a new off-leash park coming this summer to Kent's East Hill.
Kent city officials are working with residents in an effort to open a canine-friendly park on an undeveloped 3-acre site between Morrill Meadows Park and East Hill Park along Southeast 248th Street. The city-owned site sits just east of 104th Avenue Southeast.
It’s shaping up to be another difficult budget year in the Kent School District.
Projections from Financial Director John Knutson, based on the governor’s budget proposal for 2010-2001, show an estimated $7.1 million drop in funding for next year, a gap that could mean a round of staff cuts this spring.
Though the Kent School District is facing budget cuts of their own, one of the district's sports programs may be adversely affected by budget cuts in a neighboring district.
The Kent Sister Cities Association is looking for candidates to serve as youth ambassadors to Norway and China for short-term stays with a host family. Past ambassadors have come from the Kent, Renton and Auburn areas.
Kent residents who subscribe to yard-waste service now can recycle all their food scraps and food-soiled paper in their yard-waste carts. When you recycle food scraps rather than throwing them in the garbage, they are turned into nutrient-rich compost for local gardens and parks.
The Kent School Board is seeking candidates for the board position left vacant by the resignation of Chris Davies, whose last meeting as a member of the board was Feb. 10.
They may not be actual brothers and sisters, but the older students at Soos Creek Elementary are certainly beginning to look out for the younger members of their new Star Families.
U.S. Navy Seaman Michael Nodine was stationed in Norfolk, Va., with the rest of the crew of the multi-purpose amphibious assault ship USS Bataan (LHD 5) when the magnitude 7.0 earthquake rattled the island nation of Haiti last month.
Nodine, a 2005 graduate of Kent-Meridian and a master helmsman on the Bataan, along the rest of his crew, immediately packed up and headed south to aid in the relief efforts.
A Seattle-area developer still wants to build a six-to-seven story, mixed-use apartment complex in the Mill Creek neighborhood on the edge of downtown Kent.
A U.S. District Court judge Friday sentenced a 47-year-old Des Moines man to seven years in prison, five years of supervised release and $231,100 in restitution for 19 felony counts in connection with threats he made against the Boeing Co., Shell Oil and Chevron Oil.
This year, Marian and Gene Willhite celebrated their 57th wedding anniversary and with Valentine’s Day just around the corner, looked back on their time together.
More than 150 business, education and community leaders came together at Kent-Meridian High School Wednesday for the King County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce's inaugural Business and Education Striving to the Top (B.E.S.T.) summit to try and fire up minority business communities to recognize that early childhood education is a form of economic development.
A 2-year-old boy remained in serious condition Thursday at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle after falling Wednesday morning from a second-story window at a Kent home in the 11700 block of Southeast 268th Street on the East Hill.
Refugee and Immigrant Service Center Director Shane Rock accepts the keys to a van from King County Councilwoman Julia Patterson Feb. 9. The Council has donated vans to nonprofit groups to help meet their transportation needs, including those of the Kent-based center.
The Washington state Senate approved a bill Feb. 9 that could help as many as several hundred businesses in Kent, Auburn, Tukwila and Renton obtain hard-to-find supplemental flood insurance.
With both school levies apparently on their way to passing, the key word from the school community is “grateful.”
The front office staff of the Indoor Football League’s newest franchise, the Kent Predators, invite the community to a press conference and information sharing session starting 2:30 p.m. Feb. 12 at the ShoWare Center in Kent.
A toddler was airlifted by helicopter to Harborview Medical Center Wednesday morning after falling from a second-story window at a Kent home.
