Evan Watts, Watts Brewing Co.

Life

Small Bothell brewer is a big winner in statewide beer contest

Watts Brewing takes home a hold and silver medal and was named Very Small Brewery of the Year…

Snohomish Mayor John Kartak, Mukilteo Mayor Jennifer Gregerson, Marysville School Board Director Vanessa Edwards, Everett City Councilmember Paul Roberts. Bottom (L-R): Snohomish Councilmember Larry Countryman, Edmonds City Councilmember Adrienne Fraley-Monillas, Bothell City Councilmember Rosemary McAuliffe.

Local News

Snohomish County voters said goodbye to these 7 incumbents

Collectively, these mayors, councilmembers and a school board director served decades in elected office.

Business

Edmonds company fined $575,000 for improper asbestos removal

A state agency says Above Beyond Asbestos Removal continued to accept work after being de-certified.

Saman Shareghi is organically farming in his parents yard in Bothell. (Kevin Clark / The Herald)

Local News

In climate change war, this Bothell man’s weapon is a garden

Saman Shareghi is growing a food forest. His is one of several efforts across Snohomish County.

Kate Lunceford has complaints of the use and treatments of trees in new construction in Bothell on October 7, 2021. (Kevin Clark / The Herald)

Local News

League of Women Voters has a new mission: Defend urban trees

With a focus on climate change, the Snohomish County branch wants to preserve the urban tree canopy.

Damon Buxton and Andre Feriante (not shown) will livestream back-to-back concerts on Oct. 2 to benefit the Tim Noah Thumbnail Theatre via Facebook. (Kyle Cassidy)

Life

Local fusion guitarists play to benefit Snohomish theater

Andre Feriante and Damon Buxton will perform back-to-back concerts on Oct. 2 via Facebook.

Local News

Bothell clinic helps kids exposed to drugs and alcohol

One in every 10 kids in the U.S. had prenatal exposure. The consequences are numerous.

FILE - In this Oct. 24, 2016, file photo, the AT&T logo is positioned above one of its retail stores, in New York. A Pakistan resident has been sentenced on Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021, to 12 years in prison for a conspiracy to "unlock" phones from AT&T's network, a scheme the company says cost it more than $200 million. Muhammad Fahd, 35, of Karachi, recruited an employee of an AT&T call center in Bothell, Wash., via Facebook in 2012, and began bribing that employee and his coworkers to use their credentials to unlock phones. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Northwest

Bothell workers helped Pakistani in $200 million phone fraud

The Karachi man recruited employees of an AT&T call center to use their credentials to unlock phones.

The Home Depot in Lynnwood on Sept. 3, 2021. (Andrea Brown / The Herald)

Business

Lawsuit: Home Depot doesn’t give workers enough breaks

The suit could cover at least 10,000 employees across the retailer’s 45 locations in Washington.

Business

‘Fulfillment center’ proposed along Bothell Everett Highway

Amazon denies that it’s involved in the project. But permitting documents include the company name.

Phoenix Police Department Sgt. Kevin Johnson shows off the new Axon Body 2 body camera after demonstrating to fellow officers how the camera works as another precinct gets their cameras assigned to them Wednesday, July 3, 2019, in Phoenix.  Although body-worn cameras are becoming a police standard nationwide, Phoenix was among the last big departments to adopt their widespread use. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Local News

Many local police departments looking to get body cameras

A new state law has nudged some to quickly get the cameras, which they hope will increase transparency.

Elizabeth Panagos kisses her son Paxton through her mask as she drops him off for his first day of kindergarten at Mountain Way Elementary on Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021 in Granite Falls, Wa. (Olivia Vanni / The Herald)

Local News

Masks on, at a distance, students begin a new year of school

Nervous and excited students filtered back into classrooms full-time in five districts in Snohomish County.

Traffic moves along I-405 between Highway 522 and Highway 527 where WSDOT received the approval to build a second express toll lane on Friday, Aug. 20, 2021 in Bothell, Wash. (Olivia Vanni / The Herald)

Local News

Second toll lanes coming to I-405 between Highways 522, 527

At the same time the highway gets expanded, Sound Transit is developing bus rapid transit lines.

Matt Mosteller holding Montana Mosteller (left-right) Lindsay Mosteller holding Sequoia Mosteller and Steven Hailey were forced to sell their home to the county for a project that widens 43rd Avenue in Bothell.  (Kevin Clark / The Herald)

Local News

Family loses newly purchased dream home to eminent domain

Lindsey and Matt Mosteller bought their Bothell-area house in January 2020. Now the county needs the land.

Michael Powell

Local News

After 2 years, identity of Bothell skeleton is confirmed

Michael Powell went missing in the 1990s. Detectives have named a person of interest, but no one has…

Local News

Lane closure set for section of Highway 527 near Canyon Park

The Washington State Department of Transportation is cleaning stormwater retention vaults.

Local News

Third man arrested in Bothell-area kidnapping, robbery, rape

The first two suspects were arrested last week and detectives are continuing to investigate.

Local News

2 arrested in Bothell-area kidnapping and robbery

A woman was taken to a hospital. The suspects were taken to jail.

Everett Community College (Sue Misao / The Herald)

Business

Expect a mix of in-person and online college classes in fall

Class schedules and vaccination policies at Snohomish County’s higher-ed institutions will vary.

Kristin Esterberg, new chancellor of the University of Washington Bothell. (UW Bothell)

Local News

Kristin Esterberg chosen as new chancellor of UW Bothell

The president of State University of New York at Potsdam replaces Wolf Yeigh.