Anacortes News

A blind woman and her seeing-eye dog were hit by a car along Aurora Avenue North after a man driving a Volvo apparently suffered a seizure... Seattle A blind woman and her seeing-eye dog were hit by a car along ...

Federal authorities say they found more than 100 guns at the home of a former Boeing Co.

Some elementary school teachers will specialize in subjects; kids will rotate in Many Anacortes fifth-graders and sixth-graders will have different teachers for different subjects this year as the district ...

The state Ferry Elwha has returned to service on the route between Anacortes and the San Juan Islands.

' The owner of two dogs shot and left to die in Heart Lake Park last spring has confessed to shooting the two boxers.

Despite problems found at the Shell Puget Sound Refinery in Anacortes earlier this month, refineries statewide appear to be prepared to tackle an unexpected oil spill, the Washington Department of Ecology ...

Washington state inspectors are finding most of the state's big oil handling facilities are prepared to deal with an oil spill.

Explosion blows men out of closet A man received serious burns to his arms after an explosion in a closet last week in the 1400 block of Sixth Street.

At the Board of Fire Commissioners meeting on Aug. 12, commissioners approved the purchase of five fire engines, proceeded with Deer Harbor Fire Station plans, reviewed administrative structure at neighboring ...

Ryan Larsen, a former Arlington city councilman and senior planner for Snohomish County, has been tapped to serve as Anacortes' new planning director, pending confirmation by the City Council.

Prosecutors have filed murder charges against a man accused of stabbing 18-year-old Ivan Hernandez-Vazquez and dumping his body in Seattle's View Ridge neighborhood.

The Washington state ferry Elwha is scheduled to return to its route in the San Juan Islands on Saturday, a week and a half after it had to be replaced by a smaller boat because of a problem with its ...

Two trucks were destroyed and a garage scorched in an explosion sparked by a brother and sister siphoning gas from a diesel truck Wednesday evening.

Two men who were siphoning gasoline from truck using an electric pump on Wednesday evening were not injured when the fuel exploded.

Maliko Minnieweather of Anacortes had to meet with the police recently. His mom, Lisa Ivy, got a call from Officer Del Ferrell of the Anacortes Police Department.

Owners of small reservoirs that lack Department of Ecology permits face possible fines if they don't request safety inspections on their dams by Sept.

There's no quick fix for the disabled ferry Elwha, so the 90-car Sealth will continue to operate on the Anacortes-San Juan Island route.

More Anacortes residents are having close encounters of the rodent kind. Rats are popping up under homes, in low-lying brush and even garages as the local population thrives.

The Anacortes School District faces a number of cuts and fee increases due to the rising costs of food, fuel and employee wages when it finalizes its budget this month.

The Washington State Department of Transportation Ferries Division will move the 90-car ferry Sealth this afternoon, Wednesday, August 6, to Anacortes to replace the 144-car Elwha while necessary repairs are ...