Skykomish News

"Had you invited me over, Charlotte, you might have been mayor." Want to know where the real election-night drama was last night? In Skykomish , the state's most populous county's tiniest town, and whose inclusion in King County will never cease to befuddle those accessing it via Highway 2, which spends the vast majority of its time in Snohomish ...

Who's actually sending their ballots in early? Well, it turns out our friends at King County Elections post the number of ballots they receive each day .

Mark Yuasa covers fishing and outdoors in the Pacific Northwest. A Seattle native, Mark is a lifelong angler who grew up near the banks of Lake Washington, and has been covering fishing and outdoors for more than 18 years for The Seattle Times.

Claribel Orellana is a new civil engineer for the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest.

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U.S. Forest Service officials met with a gun club president on Friday afternoon to set the rules that would allow a trap shooting range to reopen.

A male cougar is housed in a temporary cage after it was captured in Seattle's Discovery Park on Sunday.

Julie Martinoli figured if Congressman Rick Larsen can stand in front of 2,500 people to talk health care than Sens.

Votes are trickling in slower than expected in our first all mail-in primary. King County Elections originally predicted 35 percent turnout in Seattle and 33 percent countywide.

Where there's smoke, there's fire. That old saying has held true on national forest lands across Washington state as dry conditions and high temperatures of recent days have led to dozens of wildfires, most lightning-sparked. A number of motorists have spotted smoke while traveling Highway 410 to Mount Rainier.

Where there's smoke, there's fire. That old saying has held true on national forest lands across Washington state as dry conditions and high temperatures of recent days have led to dozens of wildfires, most lightning-sparked. A number of motorists have spotted smoke while traveling Highway 410 to Mount Rainier.

Where there's smoke, there's fire. That old saying has held true on national forest lands across Washington state as dry conditions and high temperatures of recent days have led to dozens of wildfires, most lightning-sparked. A number of motorists have spotted smoke while traveling Highway 410 to Mount Rainier.

Where there's smoke, there's fire. That old saying has held true on national forest lands across Washington state as dry conditions and high temperatures of recent days have led to dozens of wildfires, most lightning-sparked. A number of motorists have spotted smoke while traveling Highway 410 to Mount Rainier.

Where there's smoke, there's fire. That old saying has held true on national forest lands across Washington state as dry conditions and high temperatures of recent days have led to dozens of wildfires, most lightning-sparked. A number of motorists have spotted smoke while traveling Highway 410 to Mount Rainier.

A lightning storm rolled through the north Cascades Wednesday, igniting approximately 30 more fires in the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest.

A lightning storm rolled through the north Cascades Wednesday, igniting approximately 30 more fires in the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest.

Gold Dust Days is in its third year, and each year it's getting better, said Gold Bar Mayor Joe Beavers Monday.

A 7-year-old boy and his mother were rescued out of the Skykomish River this afternoon after one of them slipped and was swept off into the current.

Just west of this town of 4,500, fishermen in hip waders and elaborately pocketed vests cast for steelhead at the confluence of the icy Skykomish and Sultan rivers.

WENATCHEE LEAVENWORTH CHELAN Street Alert: Road construction planned for these areas Street Alert: Road construction planned for these areas Expect 60 bicyclists on Highway 2 from Stevens Pass to Coles Corner on Sunday and on Highway 2 and Highway 97A from Leavenworth to Chelan on Monday.