New estimates of construction costs for a sewage treatment plant in downtown Oak Harbor show the price tag has decreased.
Yet the numbers are still well above the original estimate for the large-scale project being built on City Beach Street.
New estimates of construction costs for a sewage treatment plant in downtown Oak Harbor show the price tag has decreased.
Yet the numbers are still well above the original estimate for the large-scale project being built on City Beach Street.
Oak Harbor City Councilwoman Tara Hizon became a victim of gun violence earlier this month.
She heard noises outside her home just before 1 a.m. on Sept. 19, went to investigate and she found a stranger standing near her car. The man, who appeared drunk and unsteady, pointed a gun directly at her, according to a police report on the incident.
The Washington State Patrol is investigating a fatality accident on Camano Island Saturday that involved an Island County Sheriff’s deputy.
Complicated litigation that’s pitting the Island County prosecutor and the board of commissioners against each other has become even more complicated.
A man accused of shooting and killing his estranged friend during a small-time drug deal in Oak Harbor last October will remain in jail in lieu of a $1-million bail bond.
The Washington State Attorney General’s Office has appealed a judge’s decision regarding reimbursement of attorney’s fees in a criminal case against an administrator at Whidbey General Hospital.
Ira Blackstock is guilty of causing a car crash on Halloween 2013 that killed 17-year-old twin sisters and badly injured their friend.
A jury in Skagit County Superior Court found the 54-year-old Oak Harbor man guilty of two counts of vehicular homicide and one count of vehicular assault today.
Janeah Goheen, a 17-year-old Oak Harbor resident, died at the scene of the Oct. 31, 2013, accident on State Highway 20 near Anacortes; her twin sister, Janesah Goheen, was injured and died at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.
Oak Harbor Police Chief Ed Green said the department is holding an open house from 3 to 7 p.m. It’s part of a series of such events that departments are holding this year in recognition of the city’s centennial.
Officials are not surprised that Whidbey Island is subsidizing Island Transit bus service on Camano Island. That, they say, is a result of the sales-tax model for funding government services and won’t impact the allocation of service.
Oak Harbor City Administrator Larry Cort retired as the top non-elected city official last week to focus on his cancer treatments.
An Oak Harbor man arrested for allegedly impersonating a police officer is suing the city and the top two officials at the police department for false arrest and defamation.
Three men who were among the first at the scene of a 2013 accident that claimed the life of two Oak Harbor girls did what they could to help the victims, they testified in court Thursday.
An 82-year-old man was killed in a one-car accident on State Highway 20 near Coupeville yesterday.
The State Patrol reported that Charles E. Carlson was driving a 1992 Toyota Previa southward on the highway and drifted off the road to the right just south of the intersection with Welcher Road.