Allen Rhoades, a member of the city Planning Commission, has resigned his position and the city is looking for someone to take his place.

Police arrested a man who had led officers on a chase on several streets after an officer tried to make a routine traffic stop.

The county is proposing increasing the Guemes Ferry fares as much as 20 percent. If approved the non-peak car and driver rate would increase by $2.00. The adult walk-on rate would increase 50 cents.

If you've been out after dark you may have noticed better lighting. Anacortes has completed an ambitious program to replace all those orange street lights with white LED street lights.

Police Chief Bonnie Bowers and Mayor Laurie Gere participated in the swearing in of new police officer Tyler Hatcher at Monday night’s City Council meeting.

Police arrested a man who had three .22 bullets in his pocket, which let the officers to a rifle that the man said he had used that evening to “shoot raccoons.” The Anacortes man, a convicted felon, was handed over a Corrections Officer.