When Esmeralda Yzaguirre started her shift Monday at Skagit Valley Hospital, she wasn’t expecting she’d leave with life-changing news.
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Many residents in Skagit County and elsewhere see the Fourth of July as a chance to light off fireworks.
There will be no carnival rides, greasy food or spectators.
Democratic U.S. Rep. Suzan DelBene faces six challengers in the race to represent District 1 in Congress for the next two years.
MOUNT VERNON — A Mount Vernon motel owner has been arrested and his business closed after unsafe levels of methamphetamine contamination were found in several of the rooms.
MOUNT VERNON — Even with a light rain coming down Wednesday afternoon, customers browsed through the TNT Fireworks stand in the Haggen parking lot, glancing at the Dancing Devils and Lightning Flashes, the Super Snap Bangers and Magic Whips.
MOUNT VERNON — In Deb Castle's inaugural season as coach of the Skagit Valley College women's basketball team, the squad had six players.
LA CONNER — The La Conner School Board selected Wednesday evening a potential interim superintendent.
There will be no carnival rides, greasy food or spectators.
There will be no carnival rides, greasy food or spectators.
MOUNT VERNON — In Deb Castle's inaugural season as coach of the Skagit Valley College women's basketball team, the squad had six players.
Imagine it: football players wearing masks during the coin flip, or volleyball players sitting on the bench 6 feet apart rather than being bunched up.
Of the eight incoming juniors joining the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association's LEAP Committee, two hail from Skagit County.
CUMBERLAND CREEK — Tucked in a curve of the Skagit River south of Hamilton, the Skagit Land Trust’s Cumberland Creek Conservation Area is teeming with greenery, dotted with animal prints pressed into the mud, and lively with birdsong.
As local officials and community members diligently try to trap Asian giant hornets, the state has posted new resources to help identify the species, which is dangerous to bees and other insects.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Skagit County residents have been lucky to be living in a place where fresh air, wildlife and scenic landscapes are abundant, a local author said Wednesday during the meeting of an online environmental book club.
PADILLA BAY — While most outdoor volunteer opportunities aren’t an option this summer because of COVID-19, a program called iNaturalist offers a digital way to contribute to local data collection.
The state Department of Ecology is taking comment on emerging plans to clean up legacy contamination left beneath Sedro-Woolley’s Hammer Heritage Square from decades of underground petroleum storage including during operation as a gas station.
On forested land near Hamilton from which smoke was rising Thursday, chain saws buzzed, axes swung and a helicopter dumped water from above.
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