The County Commissioners have enacted a temporary moratorium on new recreational pot production and processing facilities in county residential areas after receiving complaints from some rural homeowners. 

A gingerbread house contest is always great fun, in part watching kids build one, but also looking at the finished product. The Anacortes Schoold Foundation's Celebrate the Season weekend featured a gingerbread house-building contest.

Anacortes Police, officers from other agencies and a K-9 unit conducted involved in a late-night manhunt on the Tommy Thompson Trail.

While Puget Sound Energy said that nearly a quarter-million customers were without electricity at one point over the last day or two, only a very few lost power on Fidalgo and Guemes islands.

The Anacortes Arts Festival has announced it will donate about $40,000 to local arts-related projects. Open to see the full list.

With temperatures hovering near 50 degrees now, it may be difficult to think about cold weather, but the Salvation Army has established the town’s first cold weather shelter… a warm place to sleep when temperatures drop.