Whether camping out or enjoying a backyard barbecue this Memorial Day weekend, the State Fire Marshal’s Office would like to remind everyone to be careful with any kind of activity that could spark a wildfire.

National Arson Awareness Week is May 1-7 and focuses on “Prevent Wildfire Arson – Spread the Facts Not the Fire.”

Wildfire Arson – the intentional and/or reckless burning of underdeveloped wildland or uncultivated land – is the cause of many large and damaging wildfires throughout the United States.

Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife used the April 2nd Mill Creek Karelian Bear Dog 5K to raise funds and to educate the public about how to avoid conflicts with bears.

Janice Huxford, a Lake Stevens Planning Commissioner and small business owner, announced on Tuesday, February 23rd, she will run for State Representative as a Republican in the 44th Legislative District.

On Friday morning, December 4th, a Good Samaritan was struck and injured while exiting his SUV to check on the driver of a rolled over semi-truck along Eastbound I-90 at mile post 81. This is the second person hit along a state highway in the past three days. Both pedestrians were hit while checking on the occupants of rolled vehicles.

Our troopers see it and hear it all the time. A driver telling a trooper after a collision, “I don’t know what happened, I must have fallen asleep.” These types of collisions are more common than one might think and just as devastating and dangerous as speeding, drinking and driving, or not wearing seat belts.

With heat and drought rapidly increasing fire danger in western Washington, the Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is today expanding last week’s burn ban from DNR-protected lands in eastern Washington to include those west of the Cascades.

The statewide burn ban will run from June 22 through September 30, 2015.

State Representative Mark Harmsworth attended the March 24th Mill Creek City Council meeting to inform councilmembers about legislation that concerns the city.

Unfortunately, one of the things he spoke about, Mill Creek’s Public Works Shop grant, did not make it into the House Capital Budget released Friday, March 27th.