(OLYMPIA)– The San Juan Preservation Trust has conveyed a 26-acre property on the northeast shore of Orcas Island to Washington State Parks, providing Moran State Park with its very first accessible saltwater beach.

The property originally was purchased by the Trust in 2008.

State Parks recently received grant funds from …

(OLYMPIA)– The Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission will remove 23 Lombardy poplar trees in Peace Arch State Park, located in Blaine, beginning Monday, August 2nd.

Lombardy poplars are a short-lived species, and generally succumb to health problems within the first 15 years.

Officials say the poplars …

(BURLINGTON)– The I-5/Chuckanut Drive interchange in Burlington reopened at 5 a.m. this morning.

The new single-lane roundabout on Chuckanut Drive at the Josh Wilson Road intersection is the first of two roundabouts to be built at the interchange this summer.

The second roundabout will open in September at the Old Highway 99 …

(MOUNT BAKER)— The Washington State Department of Transportation says the road to Artist Point from Heather Meadows at the Mount Baker Ski Area will open for the season at 8 a.m. this morning.

Dustin Terpening in DOT’s Burlington office says crews began clearing snow from the last 2.7-mile stretch of …

(STANWOOD)— The Stanwood Chamber of Commerce is hosting their Sixth Annual Golf Classic today at Kayak Point Golf and Country Club.
The tournament tees off at 8 a.m. this morning.