The state Liquor Control Board has received 18 Kent applicants so far for recreational marijuana businesses despite a city ban to prohibit such businesses.
Fairwood Elementary School was awarded $10,000 in computer equipment from the organization Code.org for its efforts around the Hour of Code, a national campaign to recruit 10 million students to try computer science for one hour during Computer Science Education Week.
Kent's enchanting and ever-changing museum is making improvements while offering new exhibits.
One person has lost his home following a mobile home fire in the 28400 block of 168 Ave. SE Saturday evening in an area known as Pleasant Valley.
Several Girl Scout troops came together to join the Santa parade and celebrate Kent Winterfest at Kent Station and downtown Kent, a holiday tradition.
A compassionate woman, Kelly Carroll has devoted considerable time to helping others in her community. It's just her nature.
The Union Gospel Mission will be open Christmas Day to serve those who have no family or friends to share this special holiday.
Mayor Suzette Cooke was the featured guest at the Centro Rendu Volunteer Appreciation Dinner on Dec. 17 at the St. Vincent de Paul (SVdP) Thrift Store on Central Avenue North in Kent.
The Soroptimist International of Kent and the Farrington Court Retirement Community recently hosted a Free the Girls Bra Drive fundraiser at Reds Wine Bar at Kent Station.
The Kent Fire Department, Kent Firefighters Local 1747, and the Kent Firefighters Foundation have concluded another successful Toys for Joy program in 2013.
William L. Phillip Jr., will face a second trial starting Feb. 24 in Kent after jurors were unable to reach an unanimous verdict about whether he stabbed Seth Frankel to death in 2010.
Kent city officials will try to get the 2014 Legislature to include $15 million to construct a grade separation of South 228th Street from the Union Pacific railroad tracks as part of a state transportation funding package.
It represents a small step in the Kent community's ambitious plan to address a growing homeless problem.
Edward Vargas displays all the qualities one might expect of the superintendent of one of the most diverse and complex school districts in the state.
Kent-based Sleep Country, one of the Northwest's top mattress retailers, is donating $150,000 to Northwest nonprofit organizations in Washington and Oregon.
Republic Services customers who would normally have their garbage, yard waste and/or recycling collected today should put their containers out as usual.
City of Kent road crews will start their shifts at 4 a.m. Friday and maybe even sooner to combat a predicted snowfall of a couple of inches late Thursday night and early Friday morning.
Republic Services will be closed on Christmas Day, Wednesday, Dec. 25.
A King County Superior Court jury took just one day to convict Jorge Lizarraga of the murder of Devin Topps, 18, in October 2010 in Kent.
The jury was deadlocked so King County Superior Court Judge Andrea Darvas declared a mistrial Wednesday in the first-degree murder case against William L. Phillip Jr., for the 2010 stabbing death of Seth Frankel, a city of Kent employee.
