Burlington News

' Organizers of the Fiesta Unidos in Burlington said the event was a successful first step toward bringing the Chamber of Commerce and Spanish-speaking business owners together.

A 12-year-old Moses Lake girl was killed and her father seriously injured Sunday in a motorcycle crash on Highway 20, about two miles west of Burlington.

With utility merger hearings a week away and a public electricity authorization request on the ballot in November, municipalities and local governments may have to decide where they stand on the divisive issue.

' If locals learned anything at a Monday presentation by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, it's that there will be no easy solutions to the Skagit Valley's flood problems.

Already with a full schedule of sports and school, Burlington-Edison incoming senior Alicia Shapiro will be the student representative to the Burlington Parks Advisory Committee.

Get the Flash Player to see this player. Matt Wallis Corey Kleppe, 18, mentors incoming freshmen at Burlington-Edison High School's Tiger Success Academy on Thursday.

' A 38-year-old Mount Vernon man was sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in prison Thursday for having sex with a 12-year-old girl in 2005.

An official carries away pot plants from a marijuana grow operation found Wednesday night on national park land near Ross Lake.

A new farmworker survey suggests that nearly a quarter of such laborers in Western Washington are indigenous Mexicans or Central Americans.

Two trucks were destroyed and a garage scorched in an explosion sparked by a brother and sister siphoning gas from a diesel truck Wednesday evening.

The number of homes sold in the state continued to slide in the second quarter, the Washington Center for Real Estate Research at Washington State University reported today.

In a 360-degree turnaround, the Skagit Performing Arts Council has decided not to drop out of the management partnership with McIntyre Hall as originally decided in April.

Skagit County commissioners are likely to approve on Tuesday a new comprehensive plan for managing the county's solid waste system.

The Anacortes School District faces a number of cuts and fee increases due to the rising costs of food, fuel and employee wages when it finalizes its budget this month.

' As a long-time school for troubled boys moves from the isolation of Cypress Island to a string of group homes on the mainland, the school's operators are trying to reach out to wary neighbors with mixed ...

' A new connection between Peterson Road and Highway 20 will reduce traffic congestion at the Highway 20 and Interstate 5 interchange, according to the state Department of Transportation.

Travis Rutz held of challenges to win the 360 Nationals on Saturday night at Skagit Speedway.

A Clear Lake family is in awe over the amount of community support they have received after vandals destroyed their three beloved mannequins.

A teenage girl was shot and killed Saturday morning on Sauk Mountain in what appears to have been a hunting accident, according to the Skagit County Sheriff's Office.

' Plans to lift Burlington out of the 100-year floodplain can wait no longer, Planning Director Margaret Fleek said Friday.