UPDATE 7:45 pm: A single-engine plane crashed into a yard near a Lake Stevens air park Sunday evening, leaving the aircraft’s sole occupant trapped with serious injuries as neighbors rushed to provide first aid. Emergency crews responded around 6:05 p.m. to the reported crash near the 11000 block of 127th Avenue Northeast, according to Snohomish…
Skagit County’s restaurant scene has added everything from Kerala curries and New Orleans cooking to house-baked sandwiches and steaks paired with bourbon over the past year. The openings stretch from downtown Mount Vernon to Anacortes and La Conner. Some are entirely new businesses. Others represent major relaunches with new owners, names or menus. That distinction…
Snohomish County can now offer lamb mandi large enough for the whole table, a seafood market that will cook the catch for you and an Edmonds shop built almost entirely around the argument that dinner should be dessert. Everett’s waterfront added four substantial dining options within seven months. Lynnwood got its first Raising Cane’s and…
If your mental list of places to eat around Pierce County hasn’t been updated lately, it may be time for a refresh. The past year has brought soup dumplings to Tacoma, Korean fried chicken to Puyallup, a new seafood stop to Gig Harbor and a restaurant in University Place devoted largely to the noble pursuit…
Island County’s old military tunnels, weathered inns and windswept historic sites have collected nearly as many ghost stories as they have years. The best-known haunted places in Island County are concentrated on Whidbey Island, particularly around Coupeville and Ebey’s Landing. Some come with firsthand accounts from local employees. Others depend on folklore repeated through generations…
Pierce County has no shortage of historic buildings—and some residents insist a few former occupants never left. The most talked-about haunted places in Pierce County range from a Tudor Gothic castle on American Lake to an ornate theater where the quality of the evening’s performance may determine which ghost appears. The history behind these landmarks…
Tim Curry died from coronary artery disease, according to Los Angeles County public health records obtained by People magazine. The records listed kidney cancer and Curry’s history of stroke as other significant conditions that contributed to his death. They were not identified as underlying causes. Curry died Aug. 25 at his home in Los Angeles….
Whatcom County has the proper ingredients for a respectable ghost story: Victorian civic buildings, an old jail, a grand hotel, a theatrical palace and enough fog to make an ordinary streetlamp look deeply suspicious. Most of the best-known haunted places in Whatcom County are concentrated in Bellingham, where the surviving architecture gives local folklore somewhere…
Living in Clearwater puts one of Florida’s most famous beaches in your backyard, with warm winters, waterfront sunsets and the rest of Tampa Bay within reach. It also brings hurricane anxiety, expensive housing and enough tourist traffic to make a three-mile drive feel like a personal test. Those trade-offs appear repeatedly in local Reddit threads,…
Living in Tuscaloosa means affordable housing, short commutes and plenty of Southern hospitality. It also means building your fall schedule around Alabama football, driving almost everywhere and accepting that summer has no interest in your comfort. Those themes appear repeatedly in Reddit threads, relocation forums and local reviews. The comments are anecdotal rather than a…
