Good Cheer Food Bank and Thrift Stores got a check earlier this week for $35,000 from the Boeing Employees Community Fund, executive director Kathy McCabe said Thursday, Aug. 27.
Island Eye Care in Freeland is offering cataract surgery that it said cuts or eliminates the need for costly post-surgery eyedrops.
A Freeland woman accused of causing a Valentine’s Day accident that killed a man appeared in court Monday without an attorney.
The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating a pilot who was allegedly intoxicated and made an unauthorized landing at the Whidbey Island Naval Air Station on Aug. 14.
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Wires are precariously close to coming down as a result of Saturday’s storm.
The body of a sailor who drowned in a boating accident was found on a beach during the windstorm Saturday afternoon.
Keiyia T. Jones, a 33-year-old petty officer second class at Whidbey Island Naval Air Station, disappeared in Crescent Harbor Aug. 8 after the boat he was on sank.
Nearly 2,800 Whidbey Island homes are still without power Monday morning after an unusual late summer wind storm pounded the area.
Puget Sound Energy crews are racing to get the lights on and hope to have power restored to everyone by this evening, said Ray Lane, PSE spokesman.
The outages are scattered around the island. At the peak, the utility had a total of 200 outage events that each included multiple homes.
Here’s a look at Oak Harbor Youth Football action from Saturday, Aug. 29, through the lens of photographer John Fisken.
An Oak Harbor man is dead after the motorcycle he was driving collided with another vehicle on Oak Harbor Road Friday evening.
An A-3 Skywarrior made its final journey down Ault Field Road early this morning.
Friends of Ric Sanders on North Whidbey set up a post on Highway 20 in Oak Harbor Wednesday with the aim to collect a truck or trailer load of water and other essential items to deliver to wildland firefighters and displaced fire victims in and around the town of Republic.