Funding is needed to push low-level drug offenders into treatment, rather than having them spend the night in jail then go free.
When players get hurt in an NFL or college football game, they are attended by trainers and doctors.
Land negotiations for the former Kimberly-Clark mill site on the waterfront will now be exclusively with the Port of Everett, which has stifled a competing bidder by arranging a purchase and sale agreement for the site.
Two of this year’s three City Council races have no competition, and in the third, the challenger to the incumbent ceased campaigning.
A regional indoor sports complex that would double as a community center appears to be in central Snohomish County’s future.
City Councilwoman Liz Vogeli has a challenger from businessowner Marian LaFountaine on the ballot.
Police departments may need to buy kits
Two candidates are vying for the City Council seat being vacated by Karen Guzak, a former mayor and active business owner who is ready to pass the torch after 12 years in elected office.
The Everett Planning Commission voted in favor of recommending that the City Council eliminate the permitting of supportive housing buildings, for homeless populations, in residential neighborhoods zoned R-1, thereby keeping them for single-family use only.
Voters will retain or replace a long-term fire commissioner on the Fire District 4 board. Mark Hintz has served on the commission for 15 years. He is challenged by Evan Merritt, a Fire District 7 firefighter.
Fire District 7 is returning to the voters to ask for a levy lid lift, after a summertime funding request was defeated at the polls.
High school teacher Joseph Erikson is highlighting his progressive brand in his attempt to knock incumbent Scott Bader off the City Council.
The cold weather shelter is ready to accept clients on Nov. 1, but more volunteers are needed and cash donations are welcome.
The cross-armed act of underwater shark viewing and the meticulous act of managing a team through 1,169 hours of construction both have a common effect.
The City Council’s Public Safety Commission would like to have a third conversation next month on whether to open the city to more marijuana retailers before forwarding the idea before the whole City Council, but so far it’s learned a few things.