Postcards are being used by the Washington State Department of Transportation to alert people to upcoming highway work in Oak Harbor.
A stretch of highway known for crashes and spinouts should become safer once an improvement project on Highway 20 is finished.
The Washington State Department of Transportation last week awarded a $2.3-million contract to Interwest Construction for a project on Highway 20 at the intersection of Arnold Road.
It makes you want curly red hair. It makes you want to climb on top of your desk, throw up your arms and belt out a tune. Or it may just make you want a ridiculously wealthy man to lavish gifts upon you.
Whatever your reaction to the beloved musical “Annie,” one thing is highly likely; the Whidbey Playhouse’s rendition will draw plenty of giggles and “awws” from your lips.
Whidbey Island’s deer are suffering from a type of baldness that can kill.
It’s amazing how a person who has seen and suffered so much can still take pleasure in life’s simple joys and move forward.
Oak Harbor Army veteran Dennis Skaggs is able to laugh about his 4-year-old daughter’s Siamese cat named Chicken Nugget just minutes after discussing his nightmares about the stench of burning human flesh.
A one-of-a-kind lawsuit that Island County Commissioner Kelly Emerson and her husband brought against the county, two county employees and a former commissioner was dismissed Friday.
The only issues remaining to be resolved are whether the Emersons will appeal and how much the county planning department will fine them.
The one-time largest grower of loganberries in the United States is tapping into something new.
Workers recently finished installing solar panel arrays at the publicly owned Greenbank Farm. The arrays, which are located between the farm buildings and the alpaca pasture, will produce 25.1 kilowatt hours, which is more than 26,000 kilowatt/hours per year.
The fate of a new surcharge that would be added to all Washington State Ferries fares, along with legislation aimed at ferry management reform, is now in the hands of the governor.
After months of work, it appears an easement to benefit the Greenbank Farm is moving forward.
The Port of Coupeville failed in its latest attempt to sell a boat that has been moored at the wharf since October.
The efforts of kind-hearted boaters, a park ranger and a veterinarian weren’t enough to save an injured bald eagle that was pulled from Puget Sound near Deception Pass late Thursday afternoon.
A 29-year-old Oak Harbor man was sent to prison this week after pleading guilty in two separate cases in which he choked women.
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