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City task force tackles tough financial job: What to cut and what to keep

Key takeaways: Mountlake Terrace's citizen task force shares results of six-month cost-cutting exercise. Task force prioritizes Pavilion through voter-approved taxing plan. Task force agrees to increase property taxes. Task...

In sheriff’s testimony, WA legislators hear a clear threat

Three Washington state senators said the biting testimony Pierce County’s sheriff delivered during a committee hearing Thursday was threatening to legislators. Sheriff Keith Swank delivered the remarks to the Senate...

Edmonds City Councilmember Will Chen announces candidacy for 32nd District State Representative

Edmonds City Councilmember Will Chen on Friday announced that he will be a candidate for 32nd District State Representative Position 1 in this fall’s election. That seat is being...

EWHS student testifies in Olympia for expanding history education in Washington schools

Edmonds-Woodway High School senior Scarlett Luo joined several members of the Seattle nonprofit Make Us Visible Washington in testifying before the State Senate Wednesday about SB 5574. The bill would...

Three new members join Community Transit Board

Mountlake Terrace City Councilmember Kyoko Matsumoto Wright, Edmonds City Councilmember Susan Paine and Lynnwood City Councilmember David Parshall have been selected to a two-year term on the Community Transit...

Microsoft jumps into WA Legislature’s housing debate

Umpqua Bank to the right and Terrace Station apartments in the background. Van Ry Blvd, Mountlake Terrace. Oct. 6, 2024. (Photo by David Carlos)Microsoft President Brad Smith leads some...

State ferry ridership rises by nearly 1 million in 2025

A wave of close to 1 million more passengers pushed Washington State Ferries’ 2025 ridership to 20.1 million -- a jump of 5% from 19.1 million the previous year,...

Measles outbreak declared in Snohomish County after three new cases

The Snohomish County Health Department on Thursday confirmed three new measles cases this week in local children who were exposed to a contagious family visiting from South Carolina. These...

How Washington state lawmakers want to regulate AI

Yale Moon, a senior at Lake Washington High School, uses generative artificial intelligence in his free time to create fake images and videos. He also sees other content that he...

Public feedback requested on SR 99 improvements from 212th Street to Airport Road

The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) is hosting an online open house through Tuesday, Jan. 20 on recommended improvements for people walking, biking and taking transit along SR...

Washington state expands same-day support for opioid use disorder

People across Washington now have an easier way to get help for opioid use disorder, accordign to the Washington State Department of Health (DOH). DOH said in a Wednesday news release...

What WA Gov. Bob Ferguson said, and left unsaid, in his State of the State address

Gov. Bob Ferguson on Tuesday celebrated the “heart and spirit” in Washington communities ravaged by flooding in December, then pumped up fellow Democrats with calls for taxing millionaires and...

Get paid to work outside at a Washington state park this summer

Swap out the cube farm for the forest, beach or desert this summer. Washington State Parks has opened its recruitment for seasonal park aides. The park aide job is suited...

Road damage from WA flooding to cost at least $40M

Last month’s heavy flooding inflicted at least $40 million to $50 million of damage on Washington’s highways, state transportation officials estimated to lawmakers Monday. The state Department of Transportation has...

City of MLT announces City Council 2026 Intergovernmental Board appointments

The City of Mountlake Terrace on Monday released the list of the City Council's 2026 Intergovernmental Board Appointments. They are: MLT Arts Advisory Commission: William Paige MLT Board and Commission...

WA’s 2026 legislative session is getting underway; will anyone be smiling when it’s over?

Washington state lawmakers begin a 60-day session today, in which a fiscal reckoning, flood recovery and their own reelections loom large. They departed Olympia last spring, fingers crossed that a...

Snohomish County gets ready for annual Point-in-Time Count. Here’s how you can participate

Snohomish County’s annual Point-in-Time (PIT) Count will commence during the last week of January. The County Department of Human Services, as well as other community and human service providers, will...

Washington State Ferries to host online community meetings Jan. 21

Washington State Ferries leadership will look back on 2025 and what’s to come in 2026 at two online community meetings at noon and 6 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 21. Each meeting...

Ferguson may have broken WA ethics laws allowing ex-adviser to fly on state plane

Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson likely violated state laws by allowing his former top adviser, Mike Webb, to travel with him on a state plane to the Tri-Cities last summer,...

Reminder: Mountlake Terrace invites public to attend fiscal town halls Jan. 13-14

The city of Mountlake Terrace invites residents to attend and participate in two fiscal town halls on Jan. 13 and 14, offering opportunities to provide feedback on future budget...

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