The state Department of Fish and Wildlife has announced that the Skagit River will open Thursday to fishing for hatchery Chinook salmon from the West Mount Vernon Bridge to Gilligan Creek east of ...

This is due to rain flooding storm drains which then goes into the Hutchinson River mixing river water with sewage. "The stormwater rushes back up through the drains and in Mount Vernon it mixes ...

Flooding is not expected on the Nooksack River but the Skagit River will approach flood stage in Mount Vernon early next week. This weekend’s storm could save what has been a dry month.

Washington State Troopers reported that around 3 a.m., a trooper attempted to pull over a motorcycle on Interstate 5 in Mount Vernon ... struck part of the Skagit River Bridge, ejecting the ...

The Skagit River in Washington ... people were warned to expect flooding in Sedro-Woolley, Burlington and Mount Vernon. Just south of the border in Sumas, Washington, officials said city ...

May 23, 2013 — -- A portion of an Interstate 5 highway bridge in Mount Vernon, Wash ... on the portion of Interstate 5 over the Skagit River, about two hours north of Seattle.

SKAGIT COUNTY ... the receding Skagit River as it crested much lower than the Major Flood Stage that officials had anticipated. Still, there were other areas of Mt. Vernon where officials closed ...

Skagit River flooding hit its peak in Mount Vernon on Wednesday afternoon, but stopped short of reaching the floodwall that runs through downtown. In Mount Vernon, the river crested at 29.5 feet ...

A woman whose body was found near the Skagit River on Wednesday morning has been ... According to the Mount Vernon Police Department, at about 7:37 a.m. police responded to the report of a death ...

Mount Vernon police are investigating after a woman was found dead Wednesday morning in a Skagit River fishing access location known as Young’s Bar. According to police, officers were called to ...

The mayor said she blamed the flooding on the city's sewage system. "This is really a failure of our regional storm water drainage system which gets overwhelmed when we have torrential rains like ...

A levee system that rings Oslo keeps water off city streets and out of basements, even when the flood-prone Red River splays out miles beyond its banks. The trade-off is that residents can be ...