As students throughout the state get ready to take their annual standardized exams, school districts are preparing to administer the new Smarter Balanced Assessment.
Soos Creek Elementary School PTA has joined Clothes for the Cause, a fundraising company that collects clothes in exchange for cash, for an event to raise money for Academic Enrichment and Family Outreach.
No word yet from the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) about whether new Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) offices could be built in Kent.
Joshua Herrero, a Kentwood High School junior, has been nominated to attend the Congress of Future Medical Leaders in Boston on June 24-26.
Members of Girl Scout Troop 41579, The Shooting Stars, donated about 600 clothing items and 450 books to the Kent Area Council PTA clothing bank, which is in Kent Phoenix Academy, 11000 SE 264th St.
Thirteen schools in the Kent School District have been awarded 2014 Washington Achievement Awards.
After recognizing the need to provide mentors to young men in the Kent area, Kendrick Glover and Sylvester Craft started Glover Empower Mentoring, or G.E.M. for short.
The Seattle Thunderbirds signed defenseman Jarret Tyszka to a standard Western Hockey League contract, general manager Russ Farwell announced today.
It appears Seattle developer Tarragon will get about a $25,000 property tax break each year for the next eight years from the city of Kent for building an 154-unit apartment complex at Kent Station.
Owners of the Kent-based Seattle Thunderbirds junior hockey team moved closer to getting their wish as the state House voted 91-7 on Wednesday to approve a bill that would clarify that Western Hockey League players are amateur athletes and not employees who should be paid minimum wage and fall under state child labor laws.
The chair and vice chairs of the Sound Transit Board on Wednesday issued the following statements after the Washington State House Transportation Committee's passage of a transportation package that includes the full $15 billion requested authority for regional voters to consider a comprehensive Sound Transit 3 ballot measure.
Kent Police arrested a man for investigation of disorderly conduct after he reportedly called a 6-year-old African-American boy a "monkey," and threw a rock at the child as he walked past the man's home.
Two measures relating to DNA evidence were approved by the Senate and are on their way to Gov. Inslee's desk for his signature.
The Ewing Irrigation Company installed two water features in front of Kent Fire Station 74, at 24611 116 Ave. SE., on April 13 and 14.
A Kent Fire investigator has determined that a fire that damaged several storage units in an apartment complex in the 400 block of Novak Lane was intentionally set.
City leaders and community members all agree that the city of Kent would be well served by a new YMCA in the fast growing and diverse community of 124,000 people.
Six people were displaced after a fire started in their Kent mobile home at about 1:26 p.m. Tuesday in the 24400 block of 64th Avenue South.
King County Sheriff’s Office investigators suspect distracted driving is responsible for a fatal collision Monday night in unincorporated Kent.
Twelve wineries will participate in the Wine Walk in downtown Kent from 6-9 p.m. on Friday, May 8.
There's no more walking on the boardwalk at Lake Fenwick Park in Kent.
