Mount Vernon News

Fire crews spent the day Sunday working on containing a 15-acre wildfire in Skagit County.

While students are doing slightly better each year on the Washington Assessment of Student Learning, the success rates of African-American, American Indian, Latino and Pacific Islander students shows Washington has a long way to go in improving school achievement for everyone.

Residents have reported at least seven dead crows in the past week and the Skagit County Health Department is asking anyone who finds more dead adult crows to report them.

A 20-year-old Mount Vernon man was arrested Friday morning in connection to the alleged rape of a 14-year-old girl earlier this week, according to the Burlington police.

A 14-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a stranger who entered her home Tuesday morning, according to the Burlington police.

Firefighters extinguished a roof fire of an abandoned building northeast of Sedro-Woolley early Wednesday morning.

Higher demand for government services, particularly health programs, is pushing Washington's state budget deeper into the red amid the lingering recession.

More than 1,700 cyclists rode through Bellingham during the first Ride to Conquer Cancer on June 20.

When Mount Vernon was a nearly new county seat in Washington state around 1890, a pair of entrepreneurs rigged up a ferry to get passengers across the Skagit River at the town's edge, establishing the importance of that part of town, where a farmers market now thrives.

Ricardo Mejia-Cruz was sentenced Friday to 34 years in prison for a handful of felonies, including the murder of 84-year-old Clara Thorp.

The Skagit County Coroner's Office confirmed today that the death of an 18-year-old Mount Vernon man this week was a homicide and said that he had been shot more than once.

Police in Mount Vernon are looking for witnesses to what may be a possible homicide.

A range of emotions filled the Michael M. Skinner field house at Mount Vernon High Schoola s graduation.

On the first day of camp, Kayla Zilko tacked a photo of her late father to the cabin wall beside her bed.

Drivers who travel southbound I-5 near Mount Vernon can expect minor delays on Thursday night, the state Department of Transportation says.

Adolfo Figueroa grasped a black rosary in both hands as he remembered his stepbrother.

A male in his 20s was found dead on Interstate 5 just north of the Kincaid Street exit just after midnight today.

MOUNT VERNON, Wash. - A teenage girl who balked at paying for a set of inch-long, pumpkin-orange fake fingernails in a dispute at a Mount Vernon nail salon said a nail technician grabbed her and tried to pry the nails off.

The 18-year-old Mount Vernon man who was found dead in a car with a gunshot wound Monday has been identified as Edgar Cristobal Reyes-Bravo, according to the Skagit County Coroners Office.

Police here are investigating the shooting death of an 18-year-old man early Monday morning.