Skokomish News

A forest road in the North Fork Skokomish area of Mason County will close July 13 as work gets under way to open more than three miles of fish habitat.

Deputies pulled a woman from a burning building on the Skokomish Indian Reservation Thursday morning.

Police had to pull an injured woman from a burning mobile home early Thursday morning while five others inside scrambled to safety.

Six people were injured in a mobile home fire on the Skokomish reservation Thursday morning.

Uncertainty gripped Denny Hurtado as he arrived at Seattle's Burke Museum on Aug.

Two Hood Canal estuary-restoration projects, totaling $2.7 million, are among five Puget Sound projects approved for state funding this week.

YAHOO! By Kitsap Sun staff Sunday, April 12, 2009 While the closure of the Hood Canal bridge is likely to be a headache for commuters, weekends in May and June are also popular times for tourists to venture out to the wilds of the Olympic Peninsula.

After nearly eight decades as more or less a creek, the North Fork of the Skokomish River -- a branch of the Hood Canal tributary all but wiped out by the construction of the Cushman Hydroelectric Project in the 1920s -- has water flowing through it once more.

Mason County is asking for approximately $30 million in federal stimulus funds, including money for several projects in North Mason, according to a statement from the Mason County commissioners office.

The city of Olympia and four South Sound Indian tribes are getting almost $1.3 million in federal economic-stimulus dollars to help with housing and related needs in their communities.

Mayors bridging official balderdash Having attended the Columbia River Crossing meetings, I believe the Feb.

Storyteller Cecil Cheeka, whose father was a member of the Makah Nation and whose mother was a member of the Squaxin Island tribe, explained to a crowd at The Evergreen State College that all stories have a ...

Read more in this series at kitsapsun.com/skokomishriver/ . Jerry Twidwell has made his home in the Skokomish Valley for over thirty years.

Read more in this series at kitsapsun.com/skokomishriver/ . Jayni Kamin J.R. Hunter, a farmer along the Skokomish River.

Unwinding the tangle that the Skokomish River Valley ecosystem has become is no simple task.

Lyla Vigil recalls her childhood while standing on the bank the Skokomish River where she lived and played as a child.

Nearly a dozen projects designed to improve the Skokomish River were described in a meeting Wednesday night, but residents of the Skokomish Valley were unable to contain their frustration.

Construction starts on Dam 1. March 1926: First generator begins operation. May 1926: President Calvin Coolidge energizes transmission line by telegraph.

State Department of Transportation traffic control employee Wayne Noll cleans up debris from a mudslide on Highway 166 in Port Orchard across from the Port Orchard Yacht Club.

Warm, moist air flowing into Western Washington from the Pacific Ocean could result in major river flooding, landslides and avalanches through Thursday, the National Weather Service predicts.