The Kent City Council continues to grapple with the 2010 city budget after a second public hearing about the budget this past week.
The Council will have a budget workshop 5 p.m. Dec. 2 at City Hall, and is scheduled to adopt the budget Dec. 8, although that date could change.
Seventy-two parents and players from a Kent soccer club packed the Kent City Council meeting Tuesday night at City Hall to plea for replacement of the fields lost two years ago when the city built the ShoWare Center.
Ron Bayer returns year after year as director of the Kent-based Rainier Chorale because of the music and the people.
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Police arrested a 30-year-old woman for investigation of fourth-degree assault after she reportedly threw a pop can that hit her boyfriend in the back, then punched him several times in the face.
Voters in Valley Medical Center’s Public Hospital District 1 decided to go a new direction by picking challenger Aaron Heide over incumbent Mike Miller for Commissioner Position No. 4.
King County plans to close its animal shelters in Kent and Bellevue by Jan. 31, and let the cities and regional, nonprofit animal-care groups take over the care of the region’s unwanted pets.
Weather forecasters predict a windstorm with speeds of 25 to 35 mph and gusts up to 50 mph could strike Kent between Monday evening and noon Tuesday.
A 41-year-old Kent man will not face charges from King County prosecutors in connection with his vehicle reportedly hitting a Kent woman Oct. 27 as she tried to cross the Benson Highway to catch a bus.
With lower Green River flood odds, King County officials say they’ll keep put the cats and dogs of the Kent Animal Shelter, rather than moving them to a temporary site, as had been announced earlier this fall.
A Kent business owner died Wednesday, two days after he reportedly shot and injured a coworker and then shot himself during a Monday dispute at their office.
Billie Mayer is trying to do everything she can to protect her Kent home and personal belongings from the Green River floods.
Kent city crews and contractors have placed nearly 20,000 giant sandbags along a 12-mile stretch of Green River levees in an effort to help protect homes and businesses from flooding this winter.
A dispute between a manager and a bookkeeper Monday at a Kent auto body shop led to a double shooting and left two men injured.
Kent city officials called it a “trend stopper” as sales tax revenue in September nearly matched the city’s monthly budget projections for the first time all year.
Incumbent Mike Miller and challenger Aaron Heide are locked in a tight race for Commissioner Position No. 4 on the Valley Medical Center Public Hospital District 1 board.
Suzette Cooke was in a celebratory mood Tuesday night, the eve of the General Election ballot count.
The incumbent Kent mayor had withstood a number of accusations by challenger Jim Berrios to easily earn a second, four-year term.
The Washington State Department of Transportation will place about 660 giant sandbags along a short stretch of Highway 167 shoulders in Kent to protect the road in case of Green River flooding.
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The repairs at the Howard Hanson Dam have helped, but the risk of flooding remains high this winter in the Green River Valley.
That was the word Thursday at an Army Corps of Engineers press conference in Seattle. The corps had encouraging words about a reduced risk of flooding - a 1-in-32 chance, thanks to measures that have been taken to aid the dam and river levees - but noted that's still a lot less than when the dam's reservoir was fully operational.
A 36-year-old Kent man and his estranged wife are facing charges of first-degree rape of a child.
In the aftermath of the teachers strike, the Kent School District needs better communication among administrators, board members, teachers and parents.
