Results from the 2010 Census show that Island County is graying faster than the state or the nation as a whole.
While the county’s total population continues to grow — though not at the rate predicted by the state — the number of people under 18 years old decreased significantly over the last decade.
A new site on Navy property was added to the list of potential sites for the city of Oak Harbor’s $70-million wastewater treatment facility.
The Oak Harbor City Council adopted a resolution during its regular Tuesday meeting that directs the staff and consultant to evaluate five potential sites for the future facility.
Oak Harbor police are looking for a BB gun bandit who caused thousands of dollars of damage to parked cars this month.
Police Chief Rick Wallace said someone traveled all over the city and shot car windows with a BB gun on the night of Saturday, April 2. Windows in 16 vehicles, including two at Oak Harbor Motors, were smashed or cracked. In addition, someone slashed tires on two cars in the wee hours of the morn.
An Oak Harbor sewer controversy from four years ago has bubbled to the surface once again.
Most of the residents of the small waterfront neighborhood of Driftwood Beach Addition signed a petition requesting a local improvement district, commonly known as an LID, to build a gravity sewer system to connect their homes to the city’s system.
Oak Harbor police want residents to be on the lookout for anyone acting suspiciously with a book of matches.
Detective Sgt. Teri Gardner with the Oak Harbor Police said she’s investigating two suspicious fires in the city during the last month and she’s a little concerned about the possibility of a fire bug at work in the city.
A deputy prosecutor with the Island County Prosecutor’s Office won the first round of motions in the high-profile case against two Oak Harbor women charged in a Sept. 3 accident that killed three people.
North Whidbey Park and Recreation District “strongly disputes” a lawsuit’s contention that the district was negligent in hiring or supervising a swim coach who allegedly sexually abused a young swimmer 14 years ago, according to the district’s attorney.
A 29-year-old Oak Harbor man facing trial for allegedly choking a woman last fall was recently arrested again on suspicion of choking a different girlfriend, court documents indicate.
A 42-year-old Oak Harbor woman who lied about her family’s earnings to receive welfare payments may do jail time at home.
When Loann Gulick started working at the Island County Auditor’s Office, people went to polling stations and wrote an “X” on paper ballots, then workers in the office tallied them by hand.
Four men were arrested on suspicion of rioting Monday afternoon after Oak Harbor police responded to a report of a fight involving weapons near the intersection of Whidbey Avenue and Oak Harbor Road.
Detective Sgt. Teri Gardner said four men, all Whidbey Island residents, were in a white 1997 Mercedes Benz and threatened a man with a baseball bat and a gun; a baseball bat and a BB gun were later recovered from the car.
A shoulder widening project on North Whidbey that spawned an odd controversy and rumors of favoritism finally went out to bid this week.
Island County Commissioner Angie Homola lives next to the quarter-mile strip of West Beach Road that’s being widened to improve the safety of one of the most accident-prone roads on Whidbey Island.
A human foot that was found on a beach in Greenbank last August remains a mystery despite DNA analysis and a database search.
