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CARBONADO – The Washington State Department of Transportation has published the final planning study report that addresses access across the Carbon River Canyon.

SEATTLE – Washington State Ferries leadership will look back on 2025 and what’s to come in 2026 at two online community meetings at noon and 6 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 21.

SEATTLE – The largest active highway preservation effort in Washington state will enter its second year of construction beginning as early as the weekend of Jan. 9-12, with a full closure of northbound Interstate 5 to establish

SUMNER – Drivers who use the northbound HOV lane on State Route 167 between Sumner and Pacific should prepare for new toll rules beginning Monday, Jan. 12.

DUPONT – If the weather cooperates, a portion of the new Interstate 5 interchange in DuPont will open by mid-January. Workers will also fully open the new roundabout in DuPont.

SKYKOMISH – Another section of US 2 is reopening for limited travel following historic storms and damage. The new section – providing west-side Stevens Pass access between Skykomish and the Stevens Pass Resort – will reopen by

STEVENS PASS – Work to repair one of several damaged locations on US 2, a stretch near Stevens Pass between Scenic (milepost 58) and Mill Creek Road (milepost 71), began Dec. 18. Enough progress has been made

ROCKPORT – Emergency repairs to a section of State Route 530 about 8 miles south of Rockport damaged by recent floods are scheduled to begin Monday, Dec. 29.

ENUMCLAW – Construction crews working under an emergency contract completed permanent repairs to State Route 410 Tuesday, Dec. 23, after floodwaters damaged a section of the highway near Boise Creek in Enumclaw.

ORTING – State Route 162 closes around the clock between Orting and South Prairie for emergency repair work.