It took someone only one hour to break into a locked pickup truck near Anacortes Marina and steal a generator valued at $1,000.

The city this weekend launched the first of several planned Greenways, marked routes aimed at getting citizens moving on bikes and on foot using quiet, low-traffic side streets.

Anacortes Police this week arrested and booked into county jail a potential suspect in a series of vehicle prowls.

The city will start work paving M Avenue from Eighth Street to 27^th Court as part of its ongoing asphalt preservation program on Monday, August 6.

An Anacortes Police officer helped a 93-year-old woman get her water turned back on after a city employee requested a welfare check after the water was turned off.

A 19-year old driver totaled his car and completely destroyed a light pole in a crash on Commercial Ave that occurred as he was texting, according to this week’s police blotter.