Monroe News

Roger Held of Monroe asks: While driving north on I-5 near the Alderwood mall, the carpool lane has a double white line with a sign that says you cannot cross the line.

Hey, here's an idea. Maybe if a lot of people who don't even live in Seattle complain about light rail, they will dismantle the system and it will go away.

The owners and operators of four strip clubs, including Honey's in Everett, have been indicted on federal racketeering charges.

Fire officials in Monroe are investigating the cause of a house fire in which fireworks were found in the area of the burned home Monday night.

Live theater free in the park. Low-cost sports camps for kids. Classic car shows.

Yesterday Mary and I took the motorhome about 100 miles north to Monroe, WA. We are parked at Thousand Trails Thunderbird RV Resort on the southern bank of the Snohomish River.

They came to find a way to never let it happen again in their town. About 250 people gathered Tuesday night in Sultan to talk about the beating and stabbing death of a Marysville teenager and the arrest of five young people from Sultan in connection with the slaying.

An Everett-area mother worried Friday about how to explain to her children the ugly, hateful words someone scrawled on the family's car overnight.

People came all the way from France to see the Arlington Show-n-Shine Car Show June 13.

Four of the five Sultan teens accused of beating and stabbing a Marysville teen to death on a downtown Sultan street made their first appearances in Snohomish County Superior Court on Monday.

A motorcyclist late Sunday morning crashed into a State Patrol car making a U-turn. Medics were called just before noon to Highway 522 near the 154th Street SE overpass, Monroe Fire Department Battalion Chief LeRoy Schwartz said.

Wal-Mart may be coming to town. Monroe city leaders are talking with a developer about building a big-box store on a former gravel processing site at the intersection of Chainlake Road and N. Kelsey Street.

Monroe Mayor Donnetta Walser sounds like your typical politician facing re-election: paranoid, defensive and prepared for defeat.

Even before Wednesday's beating and stabbing death of a Marysville teen in downtown Sultan, a countywide team had planned to meet with people in Monroe to talk about gangs in the Skykomish Valley.

While the state announced Tuesday that 3,100 construction jobs were lost in May, federal stimulus dollars are now flowing in hoping to stem the tide.

A reader wants to know why I didn't mention what David Letterman said. John, from Monroe, Wash., wrote in response to a recent column on the shooting at the Holocaust Museum in Washington.

Work starts today on repaving U.S. 2 between Sultan and Monroe, the first project to begin in Snohomish County with federal economic stimulus money.

Sultan High School junior Lizzie Monroe, 16, last year found herself with a daunting task.

The sounds of three very different musical groups will be heard raising the roofs of three Monroe churches on June 20 at the Third Annual Jazz Walk.

A neighborhood flap over chickens that landed a former Monroe woman behind bars has sparked a debate about horn honking, Snohomish County's noise rules and the First Amendment.