Michael O'Leary / The Herald Snohomish County Sheriff's Office Search and Rescue pilots Bill Quistorf and Steve Klett and flight medic Corey Wenzel head toward Three Fingers to check the weather conditions ...

How low will they go? I don't really have the answer, but my suspicion is that before this election season is done, right-wing Republicans will have hit new depths of campaign distortions and outright lies.

While conceding that the city is looking at a financial deficit in 2009-10, Edmonds City Councilman Dave Orvis asked council for $152,000 Tuesday night to help fund the Snohomish County Public Health ...