What is it with New Year’s resolutions that makes them so prone to failure, it’s almost ludicrous to think of making another one? You know how it goes: This year, it will be different! I can change! I will stick to my plans and see them through, no matter what!
Players from Kentwood’s girls soccer team presented a check for $3,500 to staff at Covington MultiCare on Dec. 15.
Puget Sound drivers can expect major changes to their commute starting early Tuesday morning as they adjust to a tolled SR 520 bridge.
Four people were shot at a house party in the 6200 block of S 117 Place in the early morning hours of New Year’s Day. Deputies went to the residence after receiving a 911 call and discovered three men and one woman had been shot.
The holiday break ends tomorrow with Central Puget Sound drivers headed back to work and school. Tuesday’s more typical commute will also start the long process of traffic resettling into a new normal that includes state Route 520 tolling.
At 10:25 p.m. units from the Kent and Maple Valley Fire Departments responded to a report of a possible house fire in the 18800 block of SE 269 Street.
UP2U Dog Rescue of Covington has joined other animal welfare organizations in the area that list their homeless pets on Petfinder.com, the oldest and largest database of adoptable animals on
the Internet.
Washington State Patrol Troopers across the state arrested 161 drivers suspected of being impaired by drugs or alcohol over the recent Christmas holiday weekend. That’s down from 194 arrests during the same period in 2010 and does not include arrests made by local sheriff’s deputies or city police officers.
Capt. Kyle Ohashi from the Kent Fire Department is reporting firefighters are on location of a commercial fire that is under control.
King County is eliminating free recycling services starting Feb. 1 at five of its facilities.
Vincent Oywak fled from a war-torn Sudan to make a better life for himself and his family in the United States.
The second morning of tolling on the State Route 520 bridge Friday went much like the first – smooth sailing. Traffic was even lighter this morning than the first day of tolling and alternate routes Interstate-90 and SR 522 experienced no travel delays.
Crime strikes often in Kent as the many incidents in 2011 proved.
The King County Flood Warning Center has issued a Phase II flood alert for the Green River, where controlled water releases from a dam could result in very minor flooding along portions of the river without levees upstream of Auburn. The Flood Warning Center opened at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 29, to closely monitor conditions.
Sponsors of Initiative 502 (marijuana) delivered what they said were about 341,000 signatures to our Elections Division Thursday.
It's been years and millions of dollars in the making, but tolls on State Route 520 began Thursday morning.
Prosecutors and several state lawmakers want longer sentence ranges in vehicular homicide and vehicular assault cases.
Kent artist Cheryl Renee Long will offer watercolor classes starting Jan. 10 in Maple Valley and Black Diamond.
In the aftermath of a number of deadly holiday fires nationwide, the Massachusetts-based National Fire Protection Association urges the public to take simple steps to protect their family and property from fire.
Washington’s minimum wage goes up to $9.04 per hour beginning Jan. 1.
