Alger News

Friday Creek Road will be closed to traffic near its intersection with Parson Creek Road from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday for repairs to a flood-damaged road section.

By Kaleb Hart, Skagit Speedway 6/27/09 ALGER, Wash. -- It was a good night to be a defending champion in the sprint car divisions at Skagit Speedway.

In the spirit of Berry Dairy Days, 24-year-old Kris Yates sat on his parked Baja 250 motorcycle along Fairhaven Avenue eating his strawberry shortcake.

Two more victims of the 2008 shooting rampage that left six people dead and four others injured have filed claims against the state Department of Corrections, alleging negligence of suspect Isaac Zamora.

My final local racing update for today Congrats to Jason Sowold who proves the point that wins come in bunches.

The psychiatric practice offers treatment and medication consultation for anxiety, depression and other psychological ailments.

Six law enforcement officers have been recognized with the Washington State Law Enforcement Medal of Honor, including two who were recently killed in the line of duty.

An attorney representing the family of one of six victims killed in a shooting rampage in Skagit County says the Washington Department of Corrections will face a $10 million lawsuit over how it handled the shooting suspect.

A Skagit County judge has ruled shooting rampage suspect Isaac Zamora is mentally competent to stand trial.

Even though attorneys agreed Friday that murder defendant Isaac L. Zamora was competent to stand trial, his defense attorney decided before today's competency hearing that he couldn't agree to that after all.

Defense lawyers for multiple slaying defendant Isaac L. Zamora said today that they will not contest arguments by prosecutors that he is now mentally competent to stand trial.

A judge today reduced to $350,000 the $1 million bail for a man accused of luring his wife's lover to Skagit County then killing him on Blanchard Mountain.

Rumba meets Raga at the Star Bar, where Indian/Afro-Cuban ensemble Anjuman performs at 9 p.m. Friday.

Normally I like to write about activities that we have done and places we have gone as a family, but there's an event this weekend that I'm fairly sure should be a lot of fun.

Get the Flash Player to see this player. Scott Terrell Helping Hands Food Bank volunteers Wendy Brookings, 41, Marcus Stewart, 14, and Dan Vandenburg, 79, sort donated cans of food Wednesday in the food bank ...

A man has been charged with murder in the slaying last spring of a Ferndale man whose body was found on Blanchard Mountain.

Prosecutors have charged a man with first-degree murder in the slaying of a substitute teacher and assistant track coach at Ferndale High School who reportedly was involved in a "swinger" lifestyle that ...

An Oregon man was charged Wednesday in the murder of Ferndale, Wash. high school teacher and coach found dead on Blanchard Mountain last year.

While at times the skies over Skagit County this morning resembled a snowglobe, most of the weather-related automobile crashes were reported in Whatcom County.

Get the Flash Player to see this player. Scott Terrell Multiple-murder defendant Isaac L. Zamora appeared in Skagit County Superior Court Tuesday for a hearing on his mental competency to stand trial, but the ...