Lopez Island News

Hands-free cell law goes into effect this week Police can now issue traffic citations to drivers operating a vehicle while talking on a hand-held phone if they are pulled over for a primary traffic violation, ...

Four years and 8,000-plus hours on the job later, three of Orcas Power & Light Cooperative apprentice linemen - ' Kai Burleson from Lopez, Roger Sandwith from San Juan Island and Dan Watters on Orcas - ' are ...

San Juan County Sheriff's Department reported responding to these calls: May 27: A San Juan Island man accused two men of going into his backyard without permission and beating up his dog.

The Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission is considering transferring ownership of Huckleberry Island to the Samish Indian Nation.

Fly-in invites community to Anacortes Airport A fly-in sponsored by the Anacortes Chapter of the Washington Pilots Association takes off from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, June 28 at the Anacortes Airport.

School's out for summer, but not for the Superintendent, Glenn Harris. His desk, as usual, is covered with paperwork for 15 to 20 projects demanding documentation, decisions, consultation, research, ...

James Leon Desermeaux, former San Juan County assessor and 42-year resident of Friday Harbor, has died.

George and Anne Willis have been viewing the world behind their camera lens as long as they can remember.

With the deployment, the hospital looks to improve its nursing documentation process while realizing cost savings and utilizing a more hygienic solution that the traditional workstations on wheels, says the ...

Historylink.org notes that 30 years ago, the Freighter Chavez rammed West Seattle Bridge.

A few new wrinkles and a foot in the door signal that change could be store in the way the annual proceeds from San Juan County's so-called "original" 2-percent lodging tax are distributed.

Lopez Island resident Linda Koenig searches through a corner of ties offered for 75 cents at the Soroptimist Thrift Shop.

The San Juan County Land Bank is pursuing $4 million in state grants, $1.5 million of which would be a reimbursement for money spent to buy Turtleback Mountain.

Ban takes effect in 2009; violators face $250 fine To some, it signals the end of an era.

Here I am on Saturday at the Lime Kiln Point State Park lighthouse on San Juan Island.

Jim Rohrssen, of Lopez Island, returned from a trip to Asia this spring with a new found love of Myanmar The people have been living under the control of a military junta for nearly 20 years.

The Stillaguamish Indian Tribe has spent $70,000 over the past five years to locate and remove more than 400 crab pots that have been abandoned on the seabed of Port Susan.

It's green and it's going to help the garden grow but Lopez students won't be eating the latest green item associated with their farm-to-school program.

From the fate of the lowly sea cucumber to the disenfranchisement of the next generation from their natural heritage, the San Juan Initiative is hearing it all, but the local-state-federal partnership is in a ...

The Ian McFeron Band from Seattle will entertain at the Lopez Grange Hall on Friday, June 6 at 7:30 p.m. Ian McFeron is a prolific songwriter whose lyrical prose and work ethic have drawn comparisons to Bob ...