When two Kent Police detectives and an officer showed up one afternoon last month to serve a search warrant for a fraud investigation at 437… Continue reading
Election 2016
Voters are approving higher taxes for more mass transit. The $54 billion Sound Transit3 measure had 55 percent (413,769 votes) in favor and 45 percent… Continue reading
Election 2016
Kent voters are helping to return all of the incumbents in House Districts 33 and 47 to the state Legislature in Olympia. In District 33,… Continue reading
The financial losses at the city-owned ShoWare Center continued in the third quarter of 2016 but remained lower than projections. The arena lost $312,298 through… Continue reading
The Kent City Council is considering other options rather than a $20 vehicle license tab fee to help balance the 2017-2018 budget. If the council… Continue reading
On East Hill along 116th Avenue SE
Residents are fed up with living in danger near a Kent West Hill home where two people were recently shot and injured. Neighbors say they… Continue reading
Kent Police determined an initial call from a mother about a possible abduction of her teen daughter turned out to be a false report. The… Continue reading
Kent city officials shut down “a longtime flophouse for drug activity” in the North Park neighborhood, just north of Kent Station. City crews boarded up… Continue reading
Kent Police are spending an estimated $1.5 million on overtime costs in each of the last three years, more than twice the amount in its… Continue reading
A driver of a small pickup truck drove across two lawns in Kent before smashing into the garage of a third house and coming to a stop in the driveway of a fourth home.
A dispute between two Kent roommates reportedly led to one man slashing a living room couch with knives and sticking a screwdriver into a flat screen television.
City officials narrowed down a list of 104 applicants to six in an effort to find the next city of Kent parks director.
If Kent Police arrest someone for a felony crime, the officers take that person to be booked at the King County jail at the Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent.
The man shot and killed by Kent Police has been identified as Patrick D. Reddeck, 38, of Kent.
It will cost about $300,000 per year if the Kent City Council decides to approve Mayor Suzette Cooke's proposal to add two new positions to the city payroll to help improve communications with the public.
Sonic Drive-In plans to open its first Kent location in July.
Two people were injured during a shooting at about 2:40 a.m. Tuesday at a home on Kent's West Hill.
A man stopped by Kent Police for reportedly driving a stolen car, got out of the vehicle and ran away before officers caught him nearby.
The owner of a Kent company that provided federally-mandated training for construction firms working with asbestos pleaded guilty on Thursday to falsifying documents as part of a scheme to violate the Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act.