Saying they’re sleepy by the end of long meetings, two City Council members are asking to move the Council’s regular Monday night meeting time from 7pm to 6pm. The Council rejected a 6:30 start time about a year ago.

Police arrested an Anacortes man who had apparently been living in a storage container at a Skyline mini-storage.

The budget up for final approval by the school board this coming week includes about $2-million in additional state funding.

Senator Kevin Ranker said he was not surprised by the state Supreme Court ruling to fine the state $100,000 per day for failing to come up with a plan to adequately fund K-12 education.

A volunteer consultant said the city could and should build a high-speed fiber Internet service here that, he says, could bring new income to the city as well as benefit residents and businesses alike.

The state Department of Ecology has fined BNSF Railway $86,000 for placing creosote-treated railroad ties and other materials from maintenance projects in Whatcom and Skagit county water bodies.