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Forrest Baum, the head of the Snohomish County Transportation Coalition’s new e-bike library program, poses for a photo while riding a rental e-bike on Tuesday, June 28, 2026, in Everett, Washington. (Will Geschke / The Herald)

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Everett nonprofit to launch e-bike lending program in Snohomish County

Ten service providers and community organizations will each get three e-bikes on hand to lend to clients when…

Traffic moves along 164th Street Southwest on Friday, July 17, 2026 in Lynnwood, Washington. (Olivia Vanni / The Herald)

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Snohomish County developing update to road safety plan

Officials are looking for ways to track roads with higher risks of serious crashes and develop solutions to…

Maxwell Lall (right to left), Tadesse Yeglatu, Jaswinder Bains and Tara Wickenburg, with a dozen other ATU Local 1576 members, picket on the corner of 200th Street Southwest and 46th Avenue West for fair contracts for transit workers on Friday, July 17, 2026 in Lynnwood, Washington. (Olivia Vanni / The Herald)

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Union pickets as negotiations with Community Transit continue

Members of the union representing drivers, dispatchers and other employees at the transit agency are seeking higher wages…

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Crews work on landscaping final touches underneath the new Jordan Creek Bridge on Oct. 21, 2025. The project is expected to finish middle of November.

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Report: Snohomish County to repair, replace seven bridges in coming years

One of the largest projects will be the replacement of the Granite Falls Bridge, with construction expected to…

A Link train leaves Roosevelt Station on Monday, Oct. 14, 2024 in Seattle, Washington. (Olivia Vanni / The Herald)

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Light rail trains shut down between Northgate, Cap Hill stations

The outage was caused by a power issue, Sound Transit wrote. Shuttle buses are running to carry commuters…

Community Transit’s Smokey Point Transit Center on Wednesday, July 1, 2026 in Arlington, Washington. (Olivia Vanni / The Herald)

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Community Transit funds design of major transit center expansion

Plans call for the Smokey Point Transit Center near Arlington to be expanded with more than double the…

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A Sound Transit express bus on March 27 at Everett Station in Everett.

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Community Transit to end third party contract for commuter, express buses

The Snohomish County transit agency will operate those services in-house beginning Aug. 29, according to a state filing.

An Everett Transit bus drives away from Mall Station on Monday, Dec. 22, 2025 in Everett, Washington. (Olivia Vanni / The Herald)

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As Everett weighs transit merger, paratransit riders want same service

Everett’s mayor said she would only bring a merger plan forward if it keeps existing paratransit service levels…

Vehicles travel on California Street between Broadway and Maple Street on Thursday, June 18, 2026, in Everett, Washington. The Everett City Council allocated about $1.5 million toward the design of new bicycle lanes that are set to be installed along California Street east of the city’s downtown. (Michael Henneke / The Herald)

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Everett council funds design of California Street bike lanes

The new bike lanes will serve as an east-west connection between Broadway and the Highway 2 trestle.

A Link train leaves Roosevelt Station on Monday, Oct. 14, 2024 in Seattle, Washington. (Olivia Vanni / The Herald)

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Sound Transit board approves plan keeping Everett Link on track

A plan to help close a multi-billion-dollar gap in the agency’s light rail expansion costs will spare the…

Two Swift Orange Line buses wait at the Edmonds College Transit Center on Friday, Aug. 1, 2025 in Lynnwood, Washington. (Olivia Vanni / The Herald)

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Community Transit to retire final Seattle-bound route

A new, more frequent route will run between Snohomish and Bellevue, where commuters can take light rail to…

Traffic moves across the U.S. 2 trestle between Everett and Lake Stevens on Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024. (Olivia Vanni / The Herald)

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Snohomish County leaders talk US 2 trestle replacement

At a roundtable Tuesday, officials discussed design options for the critical project and ways they might find the…

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Construction to begin on safety improvements to busy SnoCo road

A corridor of 84th Street between Marysville and Granite Falls will be under construction through August.

The Paine Field Airport in 2025 in Everett. (Olivia Vanni / The Herald)

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Paine Field gets $22M federal grant for upgrades, repairs

The money will go toward paving work on runways and redesign of the airport’s taxiways.

The Port of Everett and Everett Marina on Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2023 in Everett, Washington. (Olivia Vanni / The Herald)

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New passenger ferry to connect Everett, Langley

The walk-on ferry, a pilot program for the ports of Everett and South Whidbey, will operate two days…

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Two Swift Orange Line buses waits at the Edmonds College Transit Center in Lynnwood.

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Officials: Higher gas prices won’t impact SnoCo transit

Transportation officials said careful planning will prevent impacts to service from the jump in fuel costs.

A Link light rail train pulls into the Mountlake Terrace station on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024 in Mountlake Terrace, Washington. (Olivia Vanni / The Herald)

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Proposed Sound Transit plan would spare Everett Link from delays

The plan would come at the cost of the Sounder N Line commuter rail service, which would end…

The Everett City Council on Jan. 7, 2026. (Will Geschke / The Herald)

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Everett council signs letter urging delivery of light rail project

The letter asks Sound Transit to complete light rail to downtown Everett, as approved by voters in 2016,…

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A Community Transit bus drives underneath the Lynnwood Light Rail station in Lynnwood.

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Sound Transit to introduce free parking permits for carpoolers

After an application, some carpoolers can get reserved weekday parking spot at Lynnwood or Mountlake Terrace stations beginning…

A person looks over the edge of the new Edgewater Bridge on Monday, April 27, 2026, in Everett, Washington. (Olivia Vanni / The Herald)

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Everett, Mukilteo celebrate opening of Edgewater Bridge

After a year-and-a-half long closure, hundreds of residents came together to mark the completion of the new bridge…