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.
A 25-year-old Oak Harbor man who hit his girlfriend, kicked a deputy and repeatedly freed himself from restraints in a police car was sentenced to jail last week.
A 29-year-old Longview resident was accused last summer of taking a taxi from Tacoma to South Whidbey, fleeing without paying and then going on a home-burglarizing, Tater-Tot-burning, car-stealing crime spree, court documents indicate.
An alleged burglar accused of stealing two large-screen TVs from a Central Whidbey home was identified through fingerprints, court documents state.
Prosecutors charged Joyce Ruma, 26, of Oak Harbor in Island County Superior Court March 7 with burglary, second-degree theft and third-degree malicious mischief. She pleaded not guilty March 21.
Island County’s new emergency services coordinator lasted less than a month on the job.
But nobody is upset with Jeff Sinchak for resigning after such a short stay. Sinchak, an Oak Harbor resident, has taken a high-profile job as a spokesman for the Wounded Warrior Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping injured servicemen and women of the current generation.
