It may get slightly more expensive to make a phone call in Island County next year.
The Island County commissioners are set to consider an increase in the excise taxes on land lines and cell phones, plus a new excise tax on internet phone service.
A drunk and suicidal man robbed an Oak Harbor convenience store for a 12-pack of beer, waved a gun around, stole a car and led police on a high-speed chase last week, court document indicate.
A 49-year-old Oak Harbor woman is accused of forging a legal document to falsely claim that her deceased mother had bequeathed the family farm to her, and not to her siblings, court documents state.
Someone with a shotgun plugged a juvenile bald eagle on or near Whidbey Naval Air Station this week. Sadly, the bird didn’t survive.
Erica Anderson-Syring, a veterinarian at Best Friends Veterinary Center in Oak Harbor, said people who were walking on the beach at Rocky Point — a popular area on the Navy base — reported finding a sick eagle. The raptor was on the beach and didn’t move when dogs or people approached.
Following a whirlwind week of meetings, the Island County commissioners finalized a budget, complete with $2 million in cuts, they will present to the public at an Oct. 4 hearing.
Three dozen angry people complained to Island County commissioners Monday morning about plans to spend $20,000 on lawyers for a proposed clean water utility district, which would come with an associated tax on property.
One of the most serious assault cases in Coupeville in recent memory culminated in what a judge described as “a very unusual and heartwarming situation.”
Island County Clerk Patricia Terry will be out of a job by the end of November.
Terry didn’t make it through the primary election and was originally appointed to the position, so her replacement will take over as soon as the election is certified.
Police say they found a loaded handgun, a baggy of cocaine and $8,414 in cash when they searched a man after he struck a bouncer over the head with a beer bottle at a downtown Oak Harbor bar last month, court records state.
State troopers recovered a handgun and suspected heroin, cocaine and marijuana at the scene of a Sept. 3 collision on North Whidbey that killed three people and injured three others, according to documents filed Thursday in Island County Superior Court.
A man whose suspicious behavior in Coupeville prompted schools officials to send out an alert to parents was taken into custody in Port Angeles Thursday afternoon, according to Coupeville Marshal Dave Penrod.
The passage of either liquor-related initiative on the ballot this November could rub up to $265,000 worth of salt into Island County’s extensive budget wounds.
Three people were killed and three others were injured in a head-on, drug-related accident on Highway 20 north of Oak Harbor Friday night, according to the Washington State Patrol.
In an unusual development, two Oak Harbor women — both the driver and the front seat passenger — were arrested on suspicion of vehicular homicide, according to Sgt. Jason Longoria with the State Patrol.
