Mukilteo News

Hopes of a come-from-behind victories are looking dimmer for many candidates in last week's Snohomish County elections.

Michael O'Leary / The Herald An early morning, three-alarm fire destroyed Emory's restaurant on the east side of Silver Lake in south Everett on Monday.

On one explosive day 93 years ago, citizen deputies and a shipload of labor radicals tussled in a bloody battle on a city dock.

It took mere hours for a fire to gut the historic Whatcom Middle School early Thursday morning, Nov.

Initiative promoter Tim Eyman's solid loss on an anti-tax measure - a topic that's delivered his biggest successes over the years - is sure to ignite another round of political obituaries for the state's top ballot-box activist.

Washington State Department of Transportation Ferries Division will shut down service on Port Townsend-Keystone route beginning Wednesday night and until Friday morning to rebuild one of the 50-car ferry Steilacoom II's auxiliary generators.

Coffee grounds, chicken bones and banana peels from Everett homes soon will be turned into garden soil, not garbage heaps.

Repairs on the Steilacoom II were completed and the ferry resumed today with a 6:30 a.m. departure from Port Townsend to Keystone.

I think I've finally accepted that fall has arrived. Denial is no longer working.

The Port Townsend/Keystone ferry is not operating Thursday morning. The D.O.T. says repairs that need to be made on the Steilacoom II will take longer than anticipated.

Initiative 1033 promoter Tim Eyman will discuss the statewide measure in a town hall-style forum at Edmonds Community College on Monday.

Ron Ramey/The Herald A tunnel takes bikers under a road on the Larry Scott Memorial Trail in Port Townsend.

Candidates for two open City Council seats say there's a lot at stake in the years ahead.

Navy veterans Nelson Brewer and Ernie Arnold, both of Everett, talk while waiting to pose for a group photo at the Everett Senior Center Oct.

Depending on which side you talk to, Mukilteo is either in good hands, heading toward a bright future, or under the leadership of a political opportunist who cares more about his career than serving this city of 20,000. Mayor Joe Marine says he'd like another four years to complete what he's started.

Fifteen years translates to 65 employees and locations in Western Washington and Oregon for the owners of Diamond Knot Brewery .

Tim Eyman, of Mukilteo, Wash., is a co-sponsor of I-1033. Despite newspapers like The Spokesman-Review lobbying for and getting a massive taxpayer-financed bailout from Olympia this year, they don't recognize that average taxpayers are hurting too.

Union leaders are accusing Mukilteo's assistant fire chief of a conflict of interest because he also serves on the Board of Commissioners for Snohomish County Fire District 1. They say Brian McMahan should step down from the fire commission.

Empty storefronts, a stalled economy, Boeing's threat to set up shop elsewhere. That's just a taste of the complex, difficult issues the next mayor of Everett faces.

You usually find clover growing all over the ground, but because of a roof goof in Mukilteo, it's now taken over City Hall.