Island County Assessor Mary Engle dropped legal action against the county last month after an offending disciplinary letter was quietly removed from her file.
An 18-year-old Seattle man is accused of raping, choking and hitting his girlfriend at her Oak Harbor home last month, court documents indicate.
Nancy Dehn saved her roommate’s life by breaking down a door and dragging the older woman outside as smoke and flames filled the single-wide in Oak Harbor’s Parkwood Manor trailer park Nov. 4.
State lawmakers are considering a set of bills that would drastically change the way counties, cities and towns alert the community about what they’re up to.
A 26-year-old Oak Harbor man is going to prison for raping a grade-school girl he babysat in 2007, court documents indicate.
The alleged theft of pornographic magazines and movies from an Oak Harbor convenience store led to a felony drug charge for a 20-year-old homeless man, court documents indicate.
Prosecutors charged Gary England in Island County Superior Court Jan. 11 with possession of heroin, possession of a dangerous weapon and theft in the third degree.
Instead of cooperating with the planning department, Island County Commissioner Kelly Emerson and her husband are using a legal maneuver in an attempt to prevent the county from collecting or levying more fines against them.
A 25-year-old Oak Harbor man is accused of brutally beating a woman in front of her toddler, then assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest, court documents indicate.
A Central Whidbey gravel mining company with a history of violating environmental rules will be able to expand its operations into the 100 acres surrounding the site located north of the Greenbank Farm.
A Central Whidbey blockhouse that has fallen into disrepair may get some spare parts from a historic casket factory in Everett.
Paul Dziedzic may have his work cut out for him.
The Island County commissioners hired Dziedzic, a consultant, to facilitate a retreat with the three members of the board on Feb. 9, but he may find a political divide in the way of progress.
It didn’t bring offices to a complete standstill, but a catastrophic failure of Island County government’s email server disrupted work for nearly a week and could mean the loss of voluminous data.
An Oak Harbor couple did a little detective work last week and discovered that diesel fuel had been mistakenly placed in a premium unleaded fuel pump at the Safeway gas station.
