Skykomish News

Expect crowds today if you need to buy a permit from the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest before heading out to cut your Christmas tree.

The Reiter Foothills may be off limits, but officials worry that hasn't stopped some off-road riders.

If you have visions of family trips to the woods to cut down your Christmas tree, now's the time to get a permit.

"Had you invited me over, Charlotte, you might have been mayor." Want to know where the real election-night drama was last night? In Skykomish , the state's most populous county's tiniest town, and whose inclusion in King County will never cease to befuddle those accessing it via Highway 2, which spends the vast majority of its time in Snohomish ...

Who's actually sending their ballots in early? Well, it turns out our friends at King County Elections post the number of ballots they receive each day .

Mark Yuasa covers fishing and outdoors in the Pacific Northwest. A Seattle native, Mark is a lifelong angler who grew up near the banks of Lake Washington, and has been covering fishing and outdoors for more than 18 years for The Seattle Times.

Claribel Orellana is a new civil engineer for the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest.

Page 1 : City Hall at Lake Tye? City explores the possibility of miving across town / Cloud 2009: Monitor staff again takes top awards in state newspaper competition / Child reports abduction attempt in Startup Page 3 : School bus runs off road / Snoqualmie tribe heals rift at Evergreen Fairgrounds meeting / Chicken to help Rotary raise funds / ...

U.S. Forest Service officials met with a gun club president on Friday afternoon to set the rules that would allow a trap shooting range to reopen.

A male cougar is housed in a temporary cage after it was captured in Seattle's Discovery Park on Sunday.

Julie Martinoli figured if Congressman Rick Larsen can stand in front of 2,500 people to talk health care than Sens.

Votes are trickling in slower than expected in our first all mail-in primary. King County Elections originally predicted 35 percent turnout in Seattle and 33 percent countywide.

Where there's smoke, there's fire. That old saying has held true on national forest lands across Washington state as dry conditions and high temperatures of recent days have led to dozens of wildfires, most lightning-sparked. A number of motorists have spotted smoke while traveling Highway 410 to Mount Rainier.

Where there's smoke, there's fire. That old saying has held true on national forest lands across Washington state as dry conditions and high temperatures of recent days have led to dozens of wildfires, most lightning-sparked. A number of motorists have spotted smoke while traveling Highway 410 to Mount Rainier.

Where there's smoke, there's fire. That old saying has held true on national forest lands across Washington state as dry conditions and high temperatures of recent days have led to dozens of wildfires, most lightning-sparked. A number of motorists have spotted smoke while traveling Highway 410 to Mount Rainier.

Where there's smoke, there's fire. That old saying has held true on national forest lands across Washington state as dry conditions and high temperatures of recent days have led to dozens of wildfires, most lightning-sparked. A number of motorists have spotted smoke while traveling Highway 410 to Mount Rainier.

Where there's smoke, there's fire. That old saying has held true on national forest lands across Washington state as dry conditions and high temperatures of recent days have led to dozens of wildfires, most lightning-sparked. A number of motorists have spotted smoke while traveling Highway 410 to Mount Rainier.

A lightning storm rolled through the north Cascades Wednesday, igniting approximately 30 more fires in the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest.

A lightning storm rolled through the north Cascades Wednesday, igniting approximately 30 more fires in the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest.

Gold Dust Days is in its third year, and each year it's getting better, said Gold Bar Mayor Joe Beavers Monday.