Mukilteo News

The city won't require grocery stores to nickel and dime you if you shop in Mukilteo and use a paper bag instead of a reusable bag next year. Mukilteo City Council on Monday voted unanimously to change the city's plastic bag ban so that the law won't require retailers to charge shoppers 5 cents for each bag they use.

MUKILTEO, Washington -- A school bus carrying 32 students to Endeavour Elementary was involved in a collision Wednesday, Feb. 1. No one on the bus was injured.

MUKILTEO, Washington -- Service on the Mukilteo ferry was suspended for about two hours Thursday morning after a man threatened to blow up the vessel. There was no actual bomb.

Islanders riding the ferry to Mukilteo will find better facilities sometime in the future, but exactly what they will look like is yet to be decided.

Michael Powers of Stanwood writes: The new overpass at 172nd Street NE and I-5 is wonderful except for one road-rage boiling point.

On the jetty at Brackett's Landing this past week, volunteers pried mussels from barnacle-encrusted boulders using serrated table knives.

Nearly a year ago, travelers who usually take the ferry between Mukilteo and Clinton were forced to detour through Edmonds for two weekends while repairs were made to the dock in Mukilteo.

If you are a Washington homesteader or the descendant of one, the park service wants you to consider carrying the Washington state flag at commemoration events in May and June.

Want to learn more about the cool animals of the Salish Sea? Wondered what the opening of the Brightwater Plant is doing in cleaning up Puget Sound? Presentations take place from 7-8:30 p.m. on the first Wednesday of each month in Mukilteo.

Four North Olympic Peninsula schools earned the Washington Achievement Award for 2011, including two that were recognized as being among the best schools in the state.

Mukilteo police volunteers Dennis Chin and Sarah Yoon fill out the paperwork after completing a vacation home check in Mukilteo.

Bayek Tutlam , Andre Haghgoo and Alex Thiongo feast on Hispanic food during Hispanic Day at Mariner High School. Hispanic Day was just one of five days Mariner celebrated during its first ever Culture Week.

Joe Mulligan of Voyager Middle School and Margaret Grimes of Olivia Park Elementary are the Mukilteo School District's Lighthouse Award winners for the first semester. MUKILTEO, Washington -- For 20 years, Olivia Park Elementary has felt like a second home for teacher Margaret Grimes.

Edmonds Mayor Dave Earling has been elected to the Community Transit Board of Directors for a two-year term.

A BNSF Railway spokesman says waves crashing over the seawall at four spots between Everett and Mukilteo, Wash., have washed rocks away from one of two sets of mainline tracks in the area.

Snohomish County Council Chairman Brian Sullivan is sticking his nose into the battle between Cedar Grove Composting and its neighbors over foul odors around the company's Smith Island facility.

A man was arrested Thursday morning for making a bomb scare that suspended service on the Mukilteo-Clinton ferry route.

Bomb-sniffing dogs have checked out a ferry at the terminal in Mukilteo where a Washington State Patrol bomb squad is investigating a suspicious backpack.

Trooper Keith Leary told The Daily Herald the man board the ferry Cathlamet Thursday morning at Clinton.

MUKILTEO, Washington -- Mukilteo's two state representatives have announced they support legislation legalizing gay marriage. State Reps.