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Snohomish County Public Utility District (PUD) and its customers again have hit an all-time high for energy conservation, saving nearly 9.3 average-megawatts of energy in 2011 – enough to serve about 7,000 homes. Collectively, consumers and businesses reduced their energy bills by more than $6 million. PUD residential customers completed a range of weatherization projects […]

The Everett Mail Processing Facility at 8120 Hardeson Road will have their blue drop off boxes available until Midnight tonight for people wanting to beat the postmark deadline for mailing your tax returns. Here are a few more tips for last-minute filers… •Make sure your tax return has sufficient postage. First-Class postage is 45-cents for […]

Two people, a man and woman believed to be in their 30s, were taken by aid car to Harborview Hospital following a fire at the Hampton Court Apartments at 11419 9th Place West this afternoon. According to Leslie Hynes, spokesperson for Fire District 1, the fire was reported about 12:15pm in an upper unit of a […]

Doing spring cleaning and don’t know what to do with that old freezer or fridge? The Snohomish PUD will take it off your and hands and give you $30 too! Here’s a release from Snohomish PUD’s Neil Neroutsos detailing how the program works… Get Rid of an Old Fridge, Save Energy, Earn $30 Spring Cleaning: […]

The Everett Fire Department is crediting a smoke alarm for saving the life of an Everett man after fire broke out in his bedroom just a few feet from where he was sleeping. Everett Fire Investigator Eric Hicks sent out the following news release this morning… April 15 – Everett Fire Investigators determined a home […]

The Washington State Patrol has identified the man killed while trying to cross southbound I-5 near the Everett Mall last night as 40-year-old Shane Archey of Everett. In a press memo the WSP says Archey was hit by three different vehicles, a 2010 Honda Civic, a 2001 Audi A6 and a 2005 Ford F150. The […]

Not a lot of details yet but Washington State Patrol Trooper Keith Leary confirms a male pedestrian has been killed on Southbound I-5 near the Everett Mall exit around 10pm. Two southbound lanes are closed as troopers investigate. Leary says troopers had received reports of a person seen on the freeway in both the north […]

SR 529 from Everett to State Street in Marysville will be closed at the Ebey Slough Bridge all weekend. Here’s the word from the Washington State Department of Transportation… Granite Construction crews working for the Washington State Department of Transportation have closed both directions of SR 529, while they prepare to switch traffic to a […]

Here’s the latest on the sewage pipe break from Kate Reardon at the City of Everett… City Public Works crews finished repair work at about 7:07 a.m. today on a 20-inch iron sewer pipe that broke this Thursday morning near the 11800 block of Silver Way and had spilled hundreds of thousands of gallons of […]

The City of Everett is trying to get the word out that the city’s drinking water is perfectly safe and not affected by a massive spill of raw sewage in South Everett on Thursday. People who have access to North Creek which flows from Southeast Everett all the way back to Lake Washington are being […]