Elmer Saez, 19, got hooked on tobacco when he was 13. Saez was able to quit smoking cigarettes last July, and he credits the use of electronic cigarettes, or vaping, as the reason why. He recently started work at the Vaporium, an e-cigarette store, in Lakewood.
House Bill 2797 and Senate Bill 6483 have a lot in common. Both increased funding for K-3 classroom construction, both had bipartisan sponsorship and both failed to reach the governor's desk.
The Portland Winterhawks defeated the Seattle Thunderbirds 5-2 in Western Hockey League play Friday night at the ShoWare Center.
Last night at 11:55, with five minutes to spare before the deadline, Rep. Tina Orwall, D-Des Moines (33rd Legislative District), presided over the House of Representatives and brought down the final gavel of the 2014 Legislative session.
Those who visit downtown Kent on Sunday, March 23 are sure to find themselves in a sea of yellow. Yellow vests, that is.
Most of the emergency winter shelters throughout King County will close this weekend, including a women's shelter in Kent.
Every March, the first three floors of Seattle's Columbia Center are transformed from a sophisticated shopping mall to a mixture of hobo camp and refugee center exclusively for firefighters.
You see it almost every day: private vehicles not yielding the right of way when approached by an emergency vehicle that has its lights and sirens operating. It makes you wonder what exactly the law says about it.
The owner of a Kent apartment complex and his company, were sentenced Thursday in U.S. District Court in Seattle for violating the Clean Air Act by exposing residents and workers to airborne asbestos, U.S. Attorney Jenny A. Durkan announced.
Sound Transit hosts a series of neighborhood drop-in sessions this week through April 17 to give the public a chance to hear about alternatives for extending light rail service from SeaTac to Federal Way.
King County Sheriff’s Office detectives are asking for the public’s help identifying a man who they believe is responsible for two recent bank robberies in Auburn and Covington.
Mary Newell, Kent School District's nurse facilitator, is among 15 forward-thinking, district-level leaders to be recognized by Education Week in its second annual Leaders To Learn From report.
College students from throughout the Pacific Northwest will flex their cyber muscles in the seventh Annual Pacific Rim Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition March 22–23 at Highline Community College.
Kent business owners won out over residents during the City Council's decision about how to spend business and occupation (B&O) tax revenue this year on street repairs.
How do you tell a middle school student who struggles with equations and is well behind academic standards that he has to give up his favorite course to take another math class?
Several Kent School District programs were finalists in The Road Map Project Awards Program on March 4.
Don't count on the luck of the Irish to get you home safely if you've had too much to drink over the St. Patrick's holiday.
Firefighters from several local fire departments responded to a two-alarm apartment fire in the 17800 block of 32 Avenue South Wednesday night.
Single-game playoff tickets for the Seattle Thunderbirds will go on sale at 10 a.m. Monday at the ShoWare Center Box Office, 625 W. James St., Kent, and on the T-Birds website.
The question of whether Williams L. Phillip Jr. or someone else killed city of Kent employee Seth Frankel in 2010 at his Auburn home dominated the opening statements Monday at the retrial of Phillip just as it did last year at his initial trial.
