Island Hospital is ranked third in the state, according to annual survey results from Medicare patients who received care there in 2013.

We’ve made it to Week 14 and there are just two weeks left in the 2015 session. I am really looking forward to getting home soon but we still have a lot of work to do before heading back.

Significant damage was done to two vehicles when an Oak Harbor driver attempted to pass a motorhome on the right on Highway 20, then swerved back to avoid another vehicle already in the right hand lane.

The brand new, 144-car Samish is set to officially take its place amid Washington state’s ferry system in June on regular runs out of Anacortes.

... Cool and unsettled conditions are expected across the western Washington lowlands on Saturday...

Two Oak Harbor women were killed as a result of a one-car traffic accident Wednesday when their vehicle, which was traveling eastbound, ran off Highway 20 near Reservation Rd. and hit a concrete barrier fronting Sunland Bank and Topsoils.