Kent Mayor Suzette Cooke proposed a “hold-the-line” 2009 budget Tuesday to the City Council in an effort to keep the city away from job or service cuts during a struggling economy.
King County could turn over the animal-sheltering business to a private agency, under a proposal that county staff presented Monday to the King County Metropolitan Council.
A police chase of a car thief resulted in the temporary lockdown today of Kentlake High School.
Visitors to Kaibara Park in downtown Kent can see fish in the park's pond clearly again.
City workers drained the pond earlier this summer to clear out a foot of sludge and to seal leaks on the concrete bottom. The park is on First Avenue between West Smith and West Meeker streets.
With what is now projected to be a $90 million shortfall in the County general fund for 2009, the Metropolitan King County Council has declared public safety, health and quality of life as its first priorities for funding in the County budget. The public will have a chance to speak to its priorities at the first of six public hearings that have been scheduled through the county.
The Kent School District Board of Directors will conduct a presentation and public hearing tonight regarding the district's performance review audit.The hearing is scheduled for 7 p.m. during the Board's regular meeting at the Administration Center, 12033 S.E. 256th St.
Hoping to work at the Kent Events Center? You’ll get your chance to apply at a job fair Nov. 1 in Kent.
Jobs for ticket takers, ushers, food and beverage service workers and other positions will be featured at the fair. The event runs 1- 4 p.m. at the Green River Room at Kent Commons, 525 Fourth Ave. N.
The City of Kent today agreed to terms for a facility naming rights partnership with ShoWare™ by VisionOne. ShoWare also will be the exclusive ticketing service for the new home of the Seattle Thunderbirds and the Puget Sound region’s newest, and the nation’s first “green” entertainment venue.
Permit parking is coming to the city of Kent for the first time, because of the Kent Events Center.
The message? Don’t park in North Park without a permit. It’s the area just east of the city-owned events center.
What would you do if you found a bag of cash?
When city of Kent employee Jeff Veach found a money bag with $1,200 early one morning this summer at a cash machine in downtown Kent, he picked up the bag, waved to the security camera and took the money to his boss.
Twenty-five years ago, Gary Ridgway killed Arleen Williams’ sister, irrevocably changing her family.
In her first book, Williams tells the tale of growing up on a remote parcel of land on Tiger Mountain in the Issaquah Valley.
Her sister, Maureen Sue Feeney, was killed at the age of 19, just a month after moving out of the family home and into a Seattle apartment.
The King County Prosecutor’s Office filed a second-degree assault charge Oct. 1 in King County Superior Court against a Kent man who allegedly made threats Sept. 27 to shoot his girlfriend at his West Hill home.
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A performance audit of the 10 largest school districts in the state made four best-practice recommendations to the Kent School Disrict, but did not offer any cost savings to the district.
The culture of King County’s animal services system is so far beyond repair that the County should get out of that line of business, according to three Metropolitan King County Councilmembers who on Sunday announced their support for the idea of partnering with a community agency to provide shelter services.
A verbal dispute turned physical when a girlfriend threw a blender at her boyfriend at about 6:15 p.m. Sept. 21 in the kitchen of a Kent home in the 27000 block of 125th Avenue Southeast.
Because of Merrill Vesper’s fight against kidney disease, the long hikes he and his wife first took together more than 20 years ago are out.
But the city of Kent worker carefully researches hikes he still can take with Mary, his wife of 22 years.
At the kick-off assembly for the new green schools program at Martin Sortun Elementary, the kids were excited to show off what they had learned.
As the trained pairs of students set to monitor the new three can system of garbage, recyclables and compost took their places behind their respective garbage collection points in the school’s multi-purpose room, education assistant Scott Meyer tested the rest of the student body about what they learned in preparation for Tuesday’s launch event.
An array of area fire and police agencies were summoned to two separate threats to Wednesday's activities at the Norm Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent.
Fifty Kentridge High School students were suspended this week in the aftermath of a Sept. 25 fight off campus between two students.
