Island County Commissioner Kelly Emerson and her husband were assessed $37,000 by the county planning department this week for alleged violations of the county building code, critical areas ordinances and zoning ordinance.
Kelly Emerson cast her first votes as the newest member of the Island County Board of Commissioners Monday morning in a brief meeting punctuated by civility.
Slowly but surely, Bill Oakes is taking over Island County.
The public works director just got his fourth “hat” last week. Now he’s not only the director of the county’s largest department, he’s the county engineer, the parks director and the director of emergency management.
Will men and women in Gore-Tex raincoats and boots dig into their pockets and stick a few bucks in a metal box before hiking the Kettles trail or heading down to Libbey Beach?
How about families unleashing Fido or Princess at one of the dog parks on Whidbey Island? Will they pay?
Some Island County officials think they will and that such an honor-pay system could mean salvation for county parks.
Special agents with the U.S. Postal Inspective Service served a search warrant Thursday at a Coupeville home as part of an investigation into a 60-year-old woman who’s been ordered to pay back $2 million she received from an Alzheimer’s patient.
The agents are investigating whether Coupeville resident Shea Saenger, who happens to be a convicted murderer, broke any laws when she talked an elderly Ellensburg man named Norman Butler into sending her large amounts of money over a four-year period.
Glaciers that moved across Whidbey and Camano islands churned up the earth, creating groundwater geology that is highly complex. Like trampled layer cakes, a mixed strata of aquifers, rock, clay and silt of varying thicknesses and depths lay underfoot.
An interdepartmental team of law enforcement served a search warrant Thursday at the home of suspected methamphetamine dealers less than a block from the Island County Sheriff’s Office in Coupeville, according to Oak Harbor Police Department.
A 35-year-old Oak Harbor man who police originally arrested in connection with a bar fight was recently sent to prison for dealing cocaine.
Island County Superior Court Judge Vickie Churchill sentenced Robert Devon Smith Dec. 6 to one year and eight months in prison on the drug-related charge.
Island County commissioners are scheduled to consider increases in building permit and land-use fees for the third time in two years.
The attorney for a 20-year-old Oak Harbor woman may claim that mismatched tires caused a Sept. 3 accident that killed three people on North Whidbey.
A 66-year-old Oak Harbor woman who was rescued from a fire in Oak Harbor Nov. 4 has been charged with setting the blaze, court documents indicate.
A 24-year-old Oak Harbor man who broke into an apartment to beat his ex-girlfriend in October was recently sent to prison.
After the New Year, the Board of Island County Commissioners will have a new leader.
The three county commissioners unanimously named Island County Commissioner Angie Homola as the new chairwoman of the board. Homola, a Democrat, represents the area around Oak Harbor.
