The city has been awarded a state grant to to understand the reason for the large algae blooms at Heart Lake over the past few years.

Saying the Skagit River level is low, the city is asking for residents to voluntarily reduce water use by at least 10 percentg.

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.