Gov. Jay Inslee signed a bill on Monday to 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.
Voters will pick from more than one candidate in just two races this year for the Kent City Council as three incumbents are running unopposed.
A repeat offender, with prior convictions for forgery and identity theft, was sentenced on Monday in U.S. District Court in Seattle to four years in prison in connection with stealing mail from more than 380 victims in King County.
The Master Builders Association, general contractors and volunteers came together Saturday to build a free ramp that will give a Kent teenager more mobility at her Kent home.
The Community Network Council and the League of Education Voters, working in partnership with the Community Center for Education Results, host a community education roundtable on Monday, June 8.
A weekly look at the number of calls to the Kent Fire Department Regional Fire Authority:
Highline College has joined the Minority Male Community College Collaborative (M2C3), a consortium designed to serve and increase graduation rates of men of color.
Have You Looked in Your Kid's Backpack?, a parent's resource to help detect underage drug and alcohol use, begins at 5:45 p.m. Wednesday at East Hill Elementary School, 9825 S. 240th St., Kent.
Mike Ciancio went 2 for 3 with a double, RBI and a run scored as Kentwood downed Timberline 8-2 in the 4A West Central District playoffs at Kent Memorial Park on Saturday, clinching a spot into next weekend's regional state tournament.
Seattle Mariners fans can take Sound Transit's popular Sounder train to the Mariners game against the Boston Red Sox on Sunday, May 17. The game starts at 1:10 p.m. at Safeco Field in Seattle.
State Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced Friday his office expects to recover a total of $63 million from nine LCD manufacturers, whose price-fixing conspiracy drove up prices consumers paid on items like TVs, laptops and cell phones.
The city of Kent and Kent School District will host a town hall on Wednesday evening, May 20, called Have You Looked in Your Kid's Backpack? It is a parents guide to help detect underage drug and alcohol use.
A former Kent Little League treasurer pleaded guilty on Thursday to stealing more than $200,000 from the organization.
Kent Police want the public's help to identify and find a suspect involved in an attempted child luring incident.
Now that the new Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) offices won't be coming to Kent, city officials are back to the first hole to market the Riverbend Golf Complex's par 3 property.
Dozens of people let Sound Transit leaders know during a public hearing last week at Highline College in Des Moines where they would like to see tracks and stations built when the agency extends light rail from SeaTac to Kent and eventually to Federal Way.
The Sikh community celebrated Vaisakhi Day or Vaisakhi – a religious and colorful festival filled with music, prayer, food, exhibits and a parade – at a sun-splashed ShoWare Center last Saturday.
Salome Molia, an eighth-grader at Mill Creek Middle School, hopes to be the first in her family to earn a four-year college degree.
For Kiran Shrestha, it's hard to be halfway around the world from family and friends following the April 25 earthquake that shook his native Nepal.
Green River College President Eileen Ely needs to go. Such was the message of more than 100 Green River students and faculty during a rally on the college's main campus Wednesday.