Residents continue to flood the city of Kent's Human Services division with calls for referrals to help pay for food, gas, rent and heat in a struggling economy.
Kent-Meridian High School will play host to a debate between the two candidates vying for the top education job in the state.
Superintendent of Public Instruction Terry Bergeson and challenger Randy Dorn are both scheduled to attend a debate at the school's East Wing Auditorium Tuesday.
The Kent School District next week is hosting its first ever district-wide Community Math Nights with the goal of getting the entire community involved in math education.
Ten Kent Fire Department and two paramedic units were dispatched at 11:07 a.m. Saturday to a confirmed residential fire on Kent’s East Hill.
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King County prosecutors charged a 42-year-old Kent man Monday with first-degree murder in connection with the Oct. 16 stabbing death on Interstate 5 of his 42-year-old Kent girlfriend.
Electricity bills for Puget Sound Energy residential customers will drop by 3 percent by Nov. 1, while natural gas bills will rise by 5 percent, as a result of two actions taken by state regulators.
A Kent City Council budget workshop turned into a debate among the Council, Mayor Suzette Cooke and city staff about whether to reduce Cooke's proposed 2009 city budget.
The general election race for state representative (Position 2) in the 47th District is between incumbent Pat Sullivan, who has held the office since 2004, and Republican challenger Tim Miller.
The district includes Covington, Black Diamond, and parts of Auburn, Kent and Renton.
A fire destroyed two storage sheds next to a home Wednesday morning in the 700 block of Second Avenue North in downtown Kent.
There were no injuries. Firefighters from the Kent Fire Department and Auburn’s Valley Regional Fire Authority responded at 5:49 a.m. Oct. 15 to the report of a house fire and found two large storage sheds fully involved with fire behind the home.
Sound Publishing newspapers, of which the Kent Reporter is a part, garnered 184 awards at the annual Better Newspapers Competition held in conjunction with the Washington Newspaper Publishers conference in Yakima October 1-4.
With plans to become a defense attorney, Keyera Gainer was quick to sign up for the new Police Science class taught this year by Kent Police officers at Kent-Meridian High School.
The Boeing Co. and the union representing its roughly 27,000 Machinists will return to the bargaining table this Thursday in Washington, D.C., at the request of a federal mediator.
A husband became upset with his wife’s lunch plans and reportedly grabbed her and bit her face during an incident at 9:33 p.m. Oct. 10 at an apartment in the 25600 block of 98th Avenue South.
More than 80 people packed a courtroom Thursday night at the Norm Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent to protest the 2009 budget cuts King County Executive Ron Sims is proposing for the county's human-services, public-health and the criminal-justice departments.
Professional dancers from ABC's "Dancing with the Stars," and BBC's "Strictly Come Dancing," will be among the performers at the Champions of the Dance show at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Kentwood High Performing Arts Center, 25800 164th Ave. S.E., in Covington.
Kent residents passing by the Downtown Seattle Macy’s this month might see a couple of familiar faces in the store windows.
Jill O’Toole and Anne Hirner, both of Kent, are among the 16 breast cancer survivors Macy’s picked as models for its 12th annual Breast Cancer Survivor Fashion Show. Life-sized photos of the women – attired in Macy’s couture with all the trimmings – are in the store’s window display at the corner of Fourth Avenue and Stewart Street.
The idea for the city to install cameras to catch drivers who run red lights turned into a hot topic Tuesday night at a Kent City Council Town Hall meeting.
A 42-year-old woman claiming to be God reportedly kicked another woman and left a trail of broken bowls and overturned tables and chairs during an incident at about 1:45 p.m. Oct. 2 at a shopping mall in the 18200 block of East Valley Highway.
The worries on Wall Street and "significant problems" in the municipal bond market may force the Kent School District to postpone a sale of $25 million in school bonds, tentatively scheduled for Oct. 22.
