The D Avenue Overlay Project is underway and it provides for resurfacing and road repair on D Avenue (between 37th and 17th Streets) and on 32nd street (between M and D Avenues).

BNSF Railway will pay a $75,000 fine and improve environmental protections during track maintenance work in Skagit and Whatcom counties under an agreement with the state Department of Ecology to settle a 2015 penalty for water quality violations.

Get your household cleaning done and bring your residential garbage and yard waste to our Operations Facility – no charge!

A 67-year-old man was treated and released at Island Hospital after he was bitten by a seal as he walked on the dock at a local marina.

Due to extended warm dry weather and extreme fire danger, a ban on recreational fires is in effect for the City of Anacortes.

(Updated) A citizen turned in a small parakeet to APD after finding him in the Storvik Park area this week.  Police and Municipal Court staff are enjoying the bird’s company while waiting for an owner to identify him.