Concrete News

As soon as the sun sets, the pops, bangs and flashes of light begin. Well before, and even for a while after, the Fourth of July, proud patriots will be popping off mini explosives across the county.

A Skagit County judge needs more time to decide whether the second-degree manslaughter conviction she handed down to a 15-year-old Concrete boy for killing a hiker he mistook for a bear should carry a firearms enhancement.

A.J. Zartman, left, 17, of Birdsview, and Clyde Nunley, 19, of Concrete, corralled a spring run of chinook salmon at the Marblemount Hatchery on Thursday.

School is out for the summer, but children in many areas of the valley can still depend on balanced meals in the coming months.

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A 47-year-old Concrete man pleaded not guilty Thursday in Skagit County Superior Court to a handful of charges, including attempted murder for allegedly swinging a loaded .444 caliber rifle around a Hamilton bar in late May.

The first Major Road to be constructed after the war was the A57 and it was meant as a stopgap relieving the city centre until the inner ring road was built.

Michael Anthony Anderson age 32, passed away on May 26th 2009 in Shelton, Washington, where he was born on May 4th 1977.

Even when she was little, Claire Senn loved diesel trucks. Her father works for Paccar Technical Center in Burlington, and she remembers handing greasy tools to him as he worked on projects.

The prosecution and defense are laying out their cases in Mount Vernon, Wash., as a manslaughter trial begins for a 15-year-old boy charged in the fatal shooting of a hiker the boy says he mistook for a bear.

The rutted pavement on Interstate 90 through east Spokane is getting fixed starting Monday night.

A longtime La Conner School District supporter bequeathed the district's scholarship foundation more than $1.6 million upon her death.

TACOMA Gov. Chris Gregoire on Wednesday signed a transportation budget that elevates the freeway car-pool lanes through Tacoma to the same status as five other so-called "mega projects" across the state, a status that gives the $1.5 billion Tacoma project a better chance of actually getting built.

As the family and friends of Chrystal Hansen mourn her sudden death, the 26-year-old man investigators say killed her in a suspected drunk driving accident Monday night awaits prosecution.

A pregnant 22-year-old woman and her unborn child were killed Monday night in a two car collision on State Highway 20 in Skagit County.

The State Patrol says a drunken driver ran a red light and collided with another car on Highway 20 at Sedro-Woolley, killing the other driver.

Skagit County's assessor may not retire on June 30 after all, as he had indicated six weeks ago in a letter to county commissioners.

A cake can say a lot about who it's celebrating. Saturday, a giant cake crafted from blue and white paper towels, honored the 100th birthday of the quirky, tiny North Cascades town of Concrete.

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The Upper Baker Dam Floating Surface Collector, built by the Tualatin-based Natt McDougall Company, which won a national award recently for the project, operates near Concrete, Wash.