The state Department of Health on April 2 suspended the credential of a certified nursing assistant charged with second-degree rape of a 71-year-old woman at a Kent assisted-living facility.
Voters in Kent, Covington and King County Fire District 37 will decide this month whether they want to form a regional fire authority that would merge the Kent Fire Department and Fire District 37.
The Kent Police say at least 10 Honda vehicles from the 1990s have been stolen and later recovered over the last few weeks in a 12-block area of north Kent.
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The Kentridge High School dance team, The Chatelaines, recently won first place in two categories at the Washington Interscholastic Athletic Association 4A Dance/Drill Championships. The two categories were show routine and in academics. The 52-member team has a cumulative grade point average of 3.5.
Dianne Thompson, Kent-Meridian High School’s environmental science teacher, was selected as a 2010 Earth Hero at School by King County Executive Dow Constantine. Nominees are selected for their work to raise environmental awareness in their schools.
Mark your calendar for the "Spotlight on Inclusion premiere" 6:30 p.m. April 22 in the Kent-Meridian High School's Performing Arts Center. The school's address is: 10020 SE 256th Street, Kent, WA 98030.
Kent resident Brian Beston has pleaded guilty Apirl 9 to first-degree rape of a child, first-degree child molestation, sexual exploitation of a minor, and dealing in child pornography for raping a 4-year-old girl and sending videos of the sexual abuse to a pedophile in California. This is according to the King County Prosecutor's Office.
King County officials released a proposal Thursday for a new animal control and sheltering service starting July 1 that gives cities the option of buying into a regional model operated by the county or each city could leave the county program to run its own animal services department.
For Trudy Schug, the gut-check moment came when, as a P.E. teacher in the Kent School District, she gave a pair of athletic shoes to one of her students.
The Kent School District is facing an economic reality that one of its top financial officials is calling “unprecedented.”
Erik Linder, 9, right, and Richkie Taylor, 9, performed at the Kent Senior Activity Center during the spring luncheon on Friday, March 19.
Have some ideas about improving Kent City parks? Then attend a Green Kent Partnership meeting from 5:30-6:30 p.m. April 8 at Kent City Hall, 220 Fourth Ave. S.
DESCRIPTION: Snoqualmie Pass is open eastbound. Traction tires are advised, oversized vehicles are prohibited in both directions of travel.
LOCATION: Eastbound I-90 at milepost 47 five miles west of the summit.
LOCATION: Eastbound I-90 at milepost 47, five miles west of the summit
START: April 8, 2010, 11:00 a.m.
After waiting nearly three years for a new developer to come forward, Kent City Council members voted unanimously April 6 to give the mayor and city attorney authority to begin foreclosure proceedings on the unfinished parking garage at Fourth Avenue and West Smith Street.
Garbage hauler contract talks between Waste Management and Teamsters Local 174 broke off Tuesday and no further talks were scheduled.
Health-care reform has been a hot-button topic in past weeks, since President Obama's health-care plan -- or at least an altered version of it - survived a major vetting process with federal lawmakers.
Kent Mayor Suzette Cooke recommended Tuesday night that the City Council make $7 million in spending cuts for the rest of this year because of declining revenues.
A 36-year-old Kent woman was killed in a two-vehicle collision at about 5:24 p.m. Monday on southbound Highway 167 near South 277th Street in Auburn.
A 62-year-old Olympia man crashed while racing a motorcycle Sunday at Pacific Raceways, just east of Kent. The man later died at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.
