Monroe News

A fiery head-on collision involving a pickup and a sheriff's car on Highway 2 near Monroe early today left one person dead and sent a sheriff's deputy and a prisoner he was transporting to area hospitals, State Patrol troopers reported.

A Snohomish County Sheriff's deputy was injured Thursday morning in a fatal head-on crash on US Highway 2 near the town of Monroe.

Fire crews were struggling to knock down a forest fire southeast of Monroe on Tuesday evening.

Police recognized their bank robbery suspect from his acne-scarred face, court papers said.

Investigators blame fireworks for many of the recent destructive fires. MONROE -- The fire took Candice Tarbert's three cats and everything she owned.

As neighborhoods go, it's a little unusual; some of the homes are made of tarp cloth and campers, others are mobile homes or old RVS.

For the third time in about six months, an older home in Monroe has burned in a type of fire that is quick to spread and difficult to fight, due to an older style of construction called balloon frame construction.

Roger Held of Monroe asks: While driving north on I-5 near the Alderwood mall, the carpool lane has a double white line with a sign that says you cannot cross the line.

Hey, here's an idea. Maybe if a lot of people who don't even live in Seattle complain about light rail, they will dismantle the system and it will go away.

The owners and operators of four strip clubs, including Honey's in Everett, have been indicted on federal racketeering charges.

Fire officials in Monroe are investigating the cause of a house fire in which fireworks were found in the area of the burned home Monday night.

Live theater free in the park. Low-cost sports camps for kids. Classic car shows.

Yesterday Mary and I took the motorhome about 100 miles north to Monroe, WA. We are parked at Thousand Trails Thunderbird RV Resort on the southern bank of the Snohomish River.

They came to find a way to never let it happen again in their town. About 250 people gathered Tuesday night in Sultan to talk about the beating and stabbing death of a Marysville teenager and the arrest of five young people from Sultan in connection with the slaying.

An Everett-area mother worried Friday about how to explain to her children the ugly, hateful words someone scrawled on the family's car overnight.

People came all the way from France to see the Arlington Show-n-Shine Car Show June 13.

Four of the five Sultan teens accused of beating and stabbing a Marysville teen to death on a downtown Sultan street made their first appearances in Snohomish County Superior Court on Monday.

A motorcyclist late Sunday morning crashed into a State Patrol car making a U-turn. Medics were called just before noon to Highway 522 near the 154th Street SE overpass, Monroe Fire Department Battalion Chief LeRoy Schwartz said.

Wal-Mart may be coming to town. Monroe city leaders are talking with a developer about building a big-box store on a former gravel processing site at the intersection of Chainlake Road and N. Kelsey Street.

Monroe Mayor Donnetta Walser sounds like your typical politician facing re-election: paranoid, defensive and prepared for defeat.