BURLINGTON — The North Sound Walk to End Alzheimer’s was held Saturday at the Burlington Chamber of Commerce.
SEDRO-WOOLLEY — A state-of-the-art boiler system is now heating Sedro-Woolley High School.
Skagit County is participating this week in SepticSmart Week organized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and recognized by Gov. Jay Inslee to remind homeowners about the importance of maintaining residential wastewater processing systems.
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A roundup of cases heard in Skagit County Superior Court.
*Date of appeals ruling corrected 9/16
A sampling of recent calls to local police and fire agencies.
The black-bodied, orange-billed tufted puffin can be difficult to find not only because it’s a seabird that spends most of its time bobbing on the water and obscured by waves, but also because its population has plummeted in Washington.
ANACORTES — Chris Sparks arrives on a gray September Saturday at what is known as the red cannery off 11th Street in Anacortes. He’s here to load up 3,000 pounds of live crab to deliver to Canada in the afternoon.
Feelings about the region’s endangered Southern Resident orca whales continue to swing this year from excitement to worry.
As high temperatures baked Western Washington during the late-June heat wave, the robust mountain snowpack melted quickly.
SEDRO-WOOLLEY — A state-of-the-art boiler system is now heating Sedro-Woolley High School.
MOUNT VERNON — At lunchtime Thursday, Mount Vernon High School hosted something of a celebration.
SEDRO-WOOLLEY — U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen visited the Sedro-Woolley School District on Wednesday to talk with Superintendent Miriam Mickelson about federal COVID-19 relief funds and a new federal grant benefitting the district.
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, some districts are holding their school board meetings electronically, while others are holding them in a combination of in person and online. For information, visit district websites.
FORKS, Wash. (AP) — Three teenagers died and two others were hurt in a vehicle crash outside Forks early Saturday, authorities said.
The Democratic speaker of the Oregon House on Monday rescinded a deal she made with Republicans to share power as lawmakers redraw political boundaries and add an additional U.S. House seat for the state.
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington Gov. Jay Inlsee has asked the federal government for assistance staffing hospitals and long-term care facilities in response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
NEWBERG, Ore. (AP) — An employee at a school outside Portland, Oregon went to work in blackface last week and has been placed on administrative leave, according to a message from the district.
WESTMINSTER, Calif. (AP) — In the faces of Afghans desperate to leave their country after U.S. forces withdrew, Thuy Do sees her own family, decades earlier and thousands of miles away.
SEATTLE (AP) — A shooting in North Seattle early Sunday left a 47-year-old man dead, according to the Seattle Police Department.
CONCRETE — Amid developing an annual summer travel guide insert for the Concrete Herald, juggling other duties as the monthly newspaper’s owner-publisher/editor and responsibilities as the current mayor of Concrete the past week, Jason Miller was also occasionally scanning the candidate fili…
A third candidate filed to run for mayor of Anacortes just before the conclusion of filing week for the 2021 election, and two candidates — including the incumbent — filed to run for mayor of Concrete hours before the deadline on Friday.
Skagit County Planning Commissioner Mark Lundsten abruptly resigned Tuesday, citing a monthslong disagreement with the rest of the commission over whether he had a right to offer a minority opinion on a vote.
ANACORTES — Chris Sparks arrives on a gray September Saturday at what is known as the red cannery off 11th Street in Anacortes. He’s here to load up 3,000 pounds of live crab to deliver to Canada in the afternoon.
MOUNT VERNON — A previously grey, nondescript traffic box in downtown Mount Vernon now features a vibrant, Skagit Valley-inspired mural that wraps around all four sides.
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