Oak Harbor News

The Island County Health Department has a brochure on how to help prevent animals like rats getting into your home, but prevention tactics don't always work.

The difference between life in Oak Harbor and life back home in the Philippines is so profound that it's difficult for Lorena Albert to describe.

The lunch forum is 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday, April 17 at the Whidbey Golf Club, 2430 Fairway Lane, Oak Harbor.

Opponents of a $10.12 million, 10-year plan to change the Island County Fairgrounds got what they wanted - a slower, more public approach to saving the property.

A proposal to sell a 4.5-acre Bayview property purchased in 2007 for nearly $2 million would likely result in a financial loss for Whidbey General Hospital, a commissioner said Thursday.

As the executive director of Citizens Against Domestic and Sexual Abuse, she's seen thousands of victims of violence come through the doors.

Someone driving by the Safeway parking lot entrance might recognize him as the guy who holds up signs with messages like, "I love you" and "smile."

Opponents of a $10.12 million, 10-year plan to change the Island County Fairgrounds got what they wanted: a slower, more public approach to saving the property.

Seventeen years ago this month, a 7-year-old girl named Deborah Palmer disappeared while walking a few blocks to Oak Harbor Elementary School.

A woman accused of tattooing a man by force and her alleged partner in crime were recently sentenced to jail, according to the Island County Prosecutor's Office.

The one-on-one assistance with individual federal tax returns is offered through the AARP Tax-Aide program at the following libraries: Coupeville, Edmonds, Freeland, Lynnwood, Mountlake Terrace, Oak Harbor, and Snohomish.

Alleged theft and money laundering by a former Oak Harbor attorney resulted in the loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars for Whidbey Animals' Improvement Foundation, according to the president of the nonprofit group's board.

Whidbey Island state lawmakers visited the South End last week to brief constituents on highlights of the 2014 Legislative session.

That hasn't been the case, because of a municipal ordinance passed in 1998 prohibiting pawnbrokers from buying, selling, storing or trading ammunition.

Photo by Janis Reid/Whidbey News-Times An Oak Harbor City staffer removes rope from around an ancient Garry oak removed Sunday from the corner of City Beach Street and Barrington Drive.

At 11 p.m., when most people are asleep, Kelly Baugh is grinding fresh red wheat and starting a large batch of bread.

In this April 4, 2001 file photo, P-3C Orion practices touch-and-go landings at Whidbey Island Naval Air Station near Oak Harbor, Wash.

Search planes flying deep into the southern Indian Ocean have found nothing so far that could be from the missing Malaysia Airlines jet, Australia's acting prime minister said Friday.

In this April 4, 2001 file photo, P-3C Orion practices touch-and-go landings at Whidbey Island Naval Air Station near Oak Harbor, Wash.

Olympic Coast: Steelhead fishing was very good Saturday but came to a halt Sunday because flows got too high.