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.

Gallery Walk this coming Friday will feature large-scale steamroller block printing such as this one at the recent Anacortes Arts Festival.

The Police Department's School Resource Officer busted two high school students on pot charges.

The 2015 Guemes Island ferry haul-out will take place from September 28 through October 25. The last run the car ferry will do will be at 8:30 p.m. Sunday, September 27. Then the ferry will make its voyage south to Lake Union Drydock in Seattle.

The public is invited to comment on the scope of an environmental impact statement (EIS) that Skagit County and the state Department of Ecology plan to jointly prepare for a proposed facility to receive rail deliveries of crude oil at the Shell Puget Sound Refinery.