Skagit County News

Bernadina Luna remembers growing up in Southern Mexico, where she celebrated the Day of the Dead by visiting the cemetery where her great grandparents and other loved ones were buried.

A man who arranged the April sale of two kilograms of cocaine worth $55,000 to an undercover detective in Bellingham pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Seattle Tuesday, Nov.

Police in Anacortes said they suspect a well known dog trainer was murdered, but the man's body has not been found, reported KIRO 7 Eyewitness News.

A police helicopter searched the woods surrounding the home and business of Mark Stover.

Skagit Publishing has launched a new annual publication showcasing all of Skagit County that will be distributed around the region beginning in March.

Volunteer Mike Naylor of Mount Vernon processed intake forms for 500 patients receiving H1N1 immunizations Tuesday at the Skagit County Health Department.

Guy D. Corp, owner of Mount Vernon based grafixCORP, and Jeremy McCullough, VP Commercial Lending of Business Bank, recently announced that they have begun efforts to publish a Skagit County regional Tourism and Residents Guide, to be known as the I Love Skagit County Visitors' & Newcomers' Guide.

Skagit County is under a flood watch Thursday afternoon through late Friday night, according to the National Weather Service.

The Whatcom Re-Entry Coalition is sponsoring a forum Tuesday, Oct. 27, to protest the state Department of Corrections cutting its 26 re-entry specialists, who work with recently released prison inmates.

More than 10 percent of the nearly 66,000 Skagit County voters eligible to participate in the Nov.

The National Weather Service has issued a flood advisory for small streams and urban flooding for western Skagit and Island counties until 3:15 p.m. today.

The Ward 2 City Council race between incumbent Councilman John Cheney and Gary Molenaar is mislabeled in the Skagit County Voters' Pamphlet.

The Skagit County Department of Health received a small batch of injectable H1N1 vaccine Friday to be used with a limited population.

Two brothers arrested Tuesday in the June killing of 18-year-old Edgar Reyes-Bravo were charged in Skagit County District Court late Thursday afternoon with first-degree premeditated murder and drive-by shooting.

The Washington Department of Health has closed much of northern Puget Sound to recreational shellfish gathering after finding dangerous levels of the toxin that causes paralytic shellfish poisoning.

A 69-year-old pilot from Bow, Wash. was killed today in a plane crash near the Skagit Regional Airport.

Total unemployment in the county hovers at an unadjusted rate of 9.2 percent, or 5,550 people out of work.

Two Skagit County-based businesses will receive part of an initial $20 million in stimulus funds to promote energy-efficient and renewable-energy projects across the state.

This weekend my husband and our boys visited several local farms for the Skagit Valley Festival of Family Farms .

Q13 FOX News has learned that a small plane has crashed in Skagit County. The crash happened at the Skagit County Regional Airport near Burlington.