The City Council Monday begins a department-by-department review of the Mayor’s proposed $51 million city budget, representing a 3.5 percent increase, for the coming year.

An international air will pervade the First Friday Art Walk in November as Anacortes partners with its Sister City of Sidney, BC, to present “The Salish Sea Art Exhibit,” original, juried artwork by artists from BC’s Saanich Peninsula.

Things could have been much worse Thursday for a 12 year-old boy who rode his bike downhill through a stop sign onto M Ave without stopping, hitting the side of a car.

Fall is here, school is back in session, and, believe it or not, I’ve already started preparing for next session. With session running so long this year, I’ve tried to spend as much time as I can in district.

Location matters when it comes to your smoke alarm. That’s the message behind this year’s Fire Prevention Week campaign, “Hear the Beep Where You Sleep. Every Bedroom Needs a Working Smoke Alarm!”

A construction company on Wednesday reported the theft of over $500 in shingles from a job site in the Rock Ridge area, one of an ongoing series of such thefts.