Everett Mayor Cassie Franklin, Advanced Manufacturing Skills Center executive director Larry Cluphf, Boeing Director of manufacturing and safety Cameron Myers, Edmonds College President Amit Singh, U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen, and Snohomish County Executive Dave Somers participate in a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Tuesday, July 2 celebrating the opening of a new fuselage training lab at Paine Field. Credit: Arutyun Sargsyan / Edmonds College

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‘Magic happens’: Paine Field aerospace center dedicates new hands-on lab

Last month, Edmonds College officials cut the ribbon on a new training lab — a section of a…

One of the project bikes from Delta Garage’s first year, a Honda CL175, is parked out front of the Delta Garage workspace on Friday, July 5, 2024, in Everett, Washington. (Ryan Berry / The Herald)

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‘Open and accepted’: Delta Garage helps youth through motorcycles

Luke Emerson and Jared Kalinski started a nonprofit to help Everett high schoolers by exposing them to the…

Opposing signs regarding Prop 1 are posted along Colby Avenue on Tuesday, July 30, 2024, in Everett, Washington. (Ryan Berry / The Herald)

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Real estate interests raise $27K to fight Everett property tax hike

Yard signs have dotted streets in recent weeks pushing back against the proposed 44% property tax increase.

Cole Riccardo works on setting up new underground power lines on Thursday, Aug. 31, 2023 in Arlington, Washington. (Olivia Vanni / The Herald)

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Snohomish County PUD to start distributing bill credits this month

After receiving $14 million from the state, the utility plans to grant $200 credits to about 70,000 customers.

Unionized Compass Health workers picket in front of the Compass Evaluation and Treatment building on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024, in Mukilteo, Washington. (Ryan Berry / The Herald)

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Amid financial troubles at Compass Health, workers picket for better pay

For over a year, the Everett-based nonprofit and workers have negotiated over a new labor contract.

Opposing signs regarding Prop 1 are posted along Colby on Tuesday, July 30, 2024, in Everett, Washington. (Ryan Berry / The Herald)

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Proposed Everett tax increase sparks controversy

Proponents of the measure say the lid lift will go toward essential services. Detractors say city spending is…

State Trooper Isaiah Oliver speaks to a BNSF worker at mile marker 31.7 as road closures and evacuations mount in response to the Bolt Creek Fire on Saturday, Sep. 10, 2022, on U.S. 2 near Index, Washington. (Ryan Berry / The Herald)

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Snohomish County opens survey to develop wildfire plan

The survey is part of a multi-year effort to create a Community Wildfire Protection Plan.

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Everett motel standoff ends after 14 hours, child unharmed

Police arrested the man, 48, for investigation of assault, unlawful imprisonment and unlawful firearm possession.

A photo illustration of iconic Herald reporter Andrea Brown's "What's Up With That?" junk drawer. (Kate Erickson & Ryan Berry / The Herald)

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Columnist Andrea Brown says goodbye after 12 years: What’s up with that?

For the past decade, she’s dug up Snohomish County’s weirdest, most fanciful characters. And more than a few…

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Police: Armed man barricaded with child in Everett motel room

On Wednesday morning, Snohomish County sheriff’s deputies and a SWAT team responded to the Motel 6 on 128th…

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Woman identified in deadly train crash in Everett

The Snohomish County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the pedestrian as Anna Baisheva, 35. Last week’s crash was the…

Helion Energy CEO and co-founder David Kirtley talks to Governor Jay Inslee about Trenta, Helion’s 6th fusion prototype, during a tour of their facility on Tuesday, July 9, 2024 in Everett, Washington. (Olivia Vanni / The Herald)

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State grants Everett-based Helion a fusion energy license

The permit allows Helion to use radioactive materials to operate the company’s fusion generator.

Top row: Joshua Binda, left, Jason Call, Cody Hart, Devin Hermanson. Bottom row: Leif Johnson, left, Rick Larsen, Daniel Miller, Edwin Stickle

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Larsen faces 7 challengers to represent Everett in Congress

As he seeks a 13th term, Rep. Rick Larsen faces competitors from the left and right, including Lynnwood…

A view of the Phil Johnson Ball Fields on Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021 in Mukilteo, Washington. (Olivia Vanni / The Herald)

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Group sues to stop south Everett Pallet shelter on vacant city property

The 20 tiny houses would shelter women and their children near the Phil Johnson Ballfields.

Interfaith Family Shelter executive director Jim Dean recieves a photo of the shelter during his retirement party at Trinity Episcopal Church in Everett, Washington on Thursday, July 25, 2024. (Annie Barker / The Herald)

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Head of Everett’s Interfaith shelter says ‘it’s time for me to move over’

Jim Dean is retiring after seven years as executive director of the nonprofit. Lynsey Gagnon is stepping into…

Planes on display inside Charlie Hangar at the Flying Heritage & Combat Armor Museum on Friday, March 29, 2024 in Everett, Washington. (Olivia Vanni / The Herald)

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Flying Heritage & Combat Armor Museum is a Paine Field favorite

“Not just your old plane guys’ museum.” New exhibits celebrate the wartime efforts of women in WWII and…

Curt Shriner, right, acts during rehearsal for The Curious Savage at the Historic Everett Theatre in Everett, Washington on Wednesday, July 24, 2024. Behind him on the left is a drawing of his late wife Laura Shriner, left, and granddaughter Veronica Osburn-Calhoun, right. (Annie Barker / The Herald)

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‘This play was for her’: Everett theater’s first show in 5 years is a tribute

After tragically losing the two lights of his life, Everett Historic Theatre manager Curt Shriner said the show…

Diane Symms, right, has been the owner and CEO of Lombardi's Italian Restaurants for more than three decades. Now in her 70s, she's slowly turning the reins over to her daughter, Kerri Lonergan-Dreke.Shot on Friday, Feb. 21, 2020 in Everett, Wash. (Andy Bronson / The Herald)

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Lombardi’s Italian Restaurant in Mill Creek to close

Lombardi’s Restaurant Group sold the Mill Creek property currently occupied by the restaurant. The Everett and Bellingham locations…

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Woman dies in third fatal train crash near Everett since June

An Amtrak train heading west struck the woman near Harborview Park on Thursday night, police said.

Julio Cortes, left, Annie Fitzgerald, Bryce Nickel

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Diversity is key for Everett state rep candidates

Rep. Julio Cortes has advocated for marginalized groups in Olympia. His opponents say people with disabilities need their…