Skagit County is implementing a countywide department hiring freeze immediately to stave off worsening financial headwinds. The Oct. 3 announcement, made in an emailed news release, said the freeze ...

The Skagit County Board of Commissioners has imposed a 90-day hiring freeze as part of efforts to rein in spending ahead of a projected $19 million general fund deficit in ...

Doug Andrews, 63, died Saturday after falling an estimated 150 to 200 feet from the Sauk Mountain Trail in Skagit County.

The Skagit Valley Tulip Festival is in bloom. Well, they’re starting to. “We always like to say… we are in lockstep with the tulip growers. And of course, tulips kind of appear and bloom based on ...

Melanie Mankamyer and Keith Chaplin are running against each other in the Nov. 4 general election for the District 2 seat of ...

A court order has positioned the Swinomish Indian tribe to argue against fixing a worn-out tidegate that protects farmland in the Skagit Delta 70 miles north of Seattle. Ninth Circuit […] ...