We reached the end of our first special session Thursday and budget negotiations are proceeding fairly slowly. The Governor called for a second special session.

Police charged a 15 year-old kid with malicious mischief for urinating and deficating on a vehicle.

American Legion representatives, veterans and other audience members salute the flag at the start of a Memorial Day service at Grand View Cemetery in Anacortes. Other local ceremonies were conducted on Guemes Island and at Fernhill Cemetery.

The City of Anacortes is hosting a Public Works Open House on Friday, May 29, 2015, from 9 am until 3:30 pm, at the city's award winning Wastewater Treatment Plant at 500 T Avenue. 

Shell suffered a setback when a Superior Court judge rejected a lawsuit designed to prevent a full environment impact statement on Shell’s proposed new oil-by-rail unloading yard at the March Point refinery.

Nearly 60 students pose after the Anacortes Schools Foundation annual scholoarship ceremony on Wednesday night at Brodniak Hall.