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New bookstores in Mill Creek and Snohomish are rekindling a love of print.

Project SEARCH at Everett Public Schools allows students with disabilities the chance to achieve competitive employment.

A different happy hour: pizza, books and introverts

What started as a habit of picking up secondhand gems for friends has grown into Lee’s newest storefront on Railroad St. Fripérie Berkshires, opening July 3, will offer curated second-hand

I grew up in Barcelona and moved to the US, but I would like to come back. Unfortunately, overtourism is making it almost impossible to live there.

MONROE — You can’t legally buy cannabis in Monroe. But drive a mile outside of city limits, to unincorporated Snohomish County, and you can. Cannabis company Origins, which owns two licenses to operate in Monroe, is pushing the city to revoke its…

EVERETT — At 13, failure came easy and often for Jared Kalinski. A teacher told him, “If you’re struggling in school now, it’s only going to get harder,” recalled Kalinski, still heart-broken at 40. With his parents’ help, he graduated from Green…

MONROE — A former sheriff and a nurse will be vying for the redrawn Legislative District 12’s open seat in the state House. In 2023, after a lawsuit from Yakima residents, a U.S. District Court judge ordered redistricting to comply with the Voting…

STANWOOD — Every day, Mayor Sid Roberts walks 5 to 8 miles. “People know me because I walk,” he said in an interview Wednesday. “I walk from one end of town on the hill, all the way to the end of town and back.” By the end of the year, he’ll have one…

EVERETT — A lawsuit from neighbors could stop the city’s plans to shelter women and children in undeveloped land near the Phil Johnson Ballfields in south Everett. The city has earmarked $3 million of American Rescue Plan Act funding to build…

MONROE — Jayden Hill, 15, first got a cellphone in fifth grade. For a few years, it was a great way to coordinate pick ups with his family. But in seventh grade at Park Place Middle School in Monroe, he started checking his phone in class. Whenever…

CLINTON — Since 2009, Aurora Echo’s love language has been making pasta. She gifted spinach fettucine for a friend’s birthday, brought lasagna to a family celebration and treated her daughters to tagliolini. After getting divorced, Echo took the…

LYNNWOOD — Three years ago, The Cottage staff set out on a full-day quest for the ideal meatball binder. Sous-chef Thomas Mullen and other staff compared breadcrumbs, eggs and cheese. The creamy and soft texture of ricotta was eventually the answer.…

When Parker got into radio, she was a rarity: a woman in a DJ booth. For the past 12 years, she hosted weekend country music shows at KXA. Support local journalism If you value local news, make a gift now to support the trusted journalism you get in…

LYNNWOOD — Spokane Valley food festival Crave! Northwest is putting down roots in Snohomish County. On Friday night, the Lynnwood Event Center, 3711 196th St. SW, will be filled with foods from around the world. Those include flavors from Brazil, Sri…

Lawrence E. O’Donnell holds a photograph of himself when he was a consultant and a part of a project removing “the annex” from Everett High School in 1995 at his brother Jack’s home in Everett, Washington on Wednesday, May 29, 2024. O’Donnell is…

“Missing From Fire Trail Road” spotlights the unsolved case of Mary Johnson-Davis. It premieres Saturday at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York.

EVERETT — Thinner than hair, strung across the ocean floor, fiber broadband cables connect us all. Yet, companies struggle to attract and retain the technicians who service these critical connections. Ted Rodriguez, an instructor at Sno-Isle Tech…

SULTAN — A planned 640-acre shooting range near Sultan isn’t coming anytime soon, county officials said this week. Neighbors’ concerns, lack of interested developers and funding are forcing the county to re-evaluate the $47 million project. For…

Just before 5 a.m. on a February Saturday, my wife woke to what sounded like a cat fight in our back yard. Unable to sleep, she went to the living room to check on our cat, a 6-year-old gray and black tabby named Lyanna ususally beds down. No Lyanna.…