The election season started out with a bang.
Wanda Grone, the Island County chief deputy treasurer, filed to run against her boss and was promptly fired last week.
The state Department of Ecology levied a $301,000 fine against the man whose crab boat caught fire and sank in Penn Cove in 2012, causing an oil spill that temporarily shut down nearby Penn Cove Shellfish.
It’s just the latest bad news for Rory Westmoreland, a 51-year-old scrap-metal dealer with a history of running afoul of environmental rules, according to the Department of Ecology.
One-year-old Delaney Hodges of Oak Harbor toddled up and down Front Street in her yellow outfit as her parents kept a close eye on her Saturday afternoon.
The group aiming to shut down Outlying Field in Coupeville to Growler landing practices is holding a “vigil” Friday at the entrance of the field.
A Clinton man who maintains that he is the chief of a Native American tribe that owns all of Whidbey Island recently lost his claim on a Central Whidbey property.
A unique cable system is pretty much the only thing preventing a small, historic building on Coupeville’s famed Front Street from falling into the water below.
Nobody was injured when a mobile home on Race Road burned to the ground Sunday night.
Chief Ed Hartin with Central Whidbey Island Fire and Rescue said the doublewide was vacant and was undergoing renovations. The owners were in Arizona.
Neighbors of the doublewide were alerted to the fire by the sound of a tire on a nearby utility trailer bursting from the heat.
The owner of the Deep Sea crab boat that caught fire and sank to the bottom of Penn Cove will go to trial on a misdemeanor charge this September.
A judge kicked a 33-year-old Coupeville man out of court last week for repeated angry outbursts.
An investigation into a Coupeville deputy marshal has been turned over to a detective with the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office, according to Oak Harbor Police Chief Ed Green.
One commissioner’s recognition of the county’s recuperating finances has led the board to pull the law-and-justice levy from the November ballot.
It may seem like pocket change to a billionaire, but Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer lost money in a Whidbey Island real estate transaction, Forbes magazine reports.
The magazine reported that Ballmer and his wife own 10 view properties in the Ledgewood area near Coupeville, but recently sold a 1,144-square-foot beach house for $169,500.
Saving a life is all in a day’s work for Island County Assessor Mary Engle.
The elected assessor was called into action last month while she was teaching a new appraiser how to measure farm buildings. They stopped at Central Whidbey’s historic Jenne Farm, owned by Fran Einterz and Joyce Peterson.
