Mount Vernon News

Ongoing ballot counts are proving it was a rough year for incumbents on the Mount Vernon, Burlington, La Conner and Sedro-Woolley city councils.

After spending years on the shelves at the King County medical examiner's office, the unclaimed ashes of 28 veterans were laid to rest Wednesday at Tahoma National Cemetery in Kent.

The Skagit County Health Department has reopened its flu vaccine clinic today with the arrival of a shipment of H1N1 vaccine.

Bernadina Luna remembers growing up in Southern Mexico, where she celebrated the Day of the Dead by visiting the cemetery where her great grandparents and other loved ones were buried.

A flood watch for Skagit County and other Western Washington counties originally in effect through Friday night has been lifted.

Mount Vernon School Board members appear poised to place two levy issues on the spring ballot they say would not increase property taxes.

When I see people getting food at a food bank who drive a nicer car than mine and who are wearing nicer clothes than mine it makes it hard to feel sorry for them.

Get the Flash Player to see this player. Matt Wallis Jose Valle, 13, played Michael Jackson during Saturday's "Thriller" dance, which was inspired by the 1983 music video.

More than 10 percent of the nearly 66,000 Skagit County voters eligible to participate in the Nov.

A Washington state town is facing more than $17,000 in bills stemming from a recent visit by conservative TV pundit Glenn Beck , who was given a day by the town.

Glenn Beck Day in Mount Vernon was an expensive lesson for this small town, as it found out the cost of hosting a controversial celebrity.

Jon Stewart is getting a key to the city of Bellingham - but he won't be traveling to Washington state to accept it.

People had been having sex with the ponies and dogs as well as well as larger horses.

Firefighters have extinguished the final hot spots of a suspicious fire that destroyed the midspan of the Tommy Thompson Parkway, and cleanup crews began to pick up debris from the shoreline of Fidalgo Bay.

A 76-year-old man accused of hitting an autistic boy in the Richland library appeared in Benton County District Court on a misdemeanor assault charge.

Two brothers arrested Tuesday in the June killing of 18-year-old Edgar Reyes-Bravo were charged in Skagit County District Court late Thursday afternoon with first-degree premeditated murder and drive-by shooting.

Isaac L. Zamora's defense attorneys said they're on schedule to turn in Monday a mitigation package concerning the death penalty.

The state fire marshal's office reports there have been 42 fire fatalities so far this year compared to 31 at this time in 2008 in Washington.

The mayor of Bellingham says "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart is getting a key to the city.

Two men were arrested Wednesday in the shooting death of a Mount Vernon man this summer.