Kent News

About a third of the way up the 105-foot ladder leaned against the roof of a six-story tower, my legs begin to burn.

Gov. Jay Inslee made a quick stop Friday in Kent to pump up South Sound politicians and business leaders about the importance for the Legislature to pass a transportation funding package during the special session that started this week.

In the early morning hours of June 27, tension escalated among a crowd of gang members outside a Federal Way bar.

Another High School kid who plays a position that is historically tough to develop high schoolers from.

Jorge L. Lizarraga faces an Oct. 8 trial date for the 2010 second-degree murder of Devin Topps, a former Kentridge High School student athlete.

Fire heavily damaged the attic space and roof of a Kent home at about 2:30 a.m. Tuesday in the 23900 block of 43rd Avenue South on the West Hill.

Thousands of homes around the Puget Sound region remained without power Tuesday as crews continued to clean up from Monday's thunderstorms.

It's been three years since the stabbing death of Seth Frankel, a city of Kent employee and Auburn resident.

A man in his 40s is being treated at Harborview Medical Center after a near-drowning off the shore of Gene Coulon Park in Renton on Saturday.

Pasado's Safe Haven's Spay Station, a state-of-the-art mobile spay and neuter clinic on wheels, returns to south King County on May 15.

A man suspected of an attempted armed robbery that included the exchange of gunshots last week at a Kent jewelry store was found dead in Auburn from a gunshot wound.

Kent Police arrested three Kent residents for investigation of third-degree malicious mischief in connection with graffiti tagging that has plagued Kent's Valley and East Hill areas for months.

A 24-year-old Kent man accused of killing one woman and injuring three other passengers during a crash on Interstate 5 at Seattle has been charged with vehicular homicide.

Two inmates from the Enumclaw city jail in Enumclaw are back in custody after escaping overnight and forcing two teens to trade clothes, police said.

Western Washington University student Liv Mothershead of Kent has received a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship to help teach English at an Austrian school.

A woman reportedly spit in the face of a Fred Meyer store employee after she had been asked to leave because the store was closing at about 11 p.m. April 28 on the West Hill.

A search party Wednesday morning located the body of a 61-year-old dentist who practiced in Renton, swept down the slopes of Granite Mountain by a large avalanche in April.

A searching party has found the body of a 61-year-old dentist who was swept away by an avalanche last month on Granite Mountain, officials said Wednesday.

A North Vancouver man has been sentenced to 12 years in a U.S. prison for smuggling drugs over the border for the Hells Angels.

NORCOM, the emergency dispatch system that provides service to 14 fire districts, including Eastside Fire & Rescue, couldn't wait any longer for the long-promised new software from New World.