Police have arrested former Island Hospital Foundation Development Director Bernadette Stanek and booked her into county jail. Bail is set at $100,000.

A La Conner woman whose alcohol breath test was three times the legal limit was charged with hit-and-run and DUI after crashing into a parked vehicle, then leaving the scene.

Island Hospital Foundation has revealed a little more information about the embezzlement of $300,000 and says it is taking steps to prevent a similar event from happening again.

Candidates for the state legislature joined candidates for county-wide seats at an Anacortes Candidates Forum, but only one-half of the initial audience stayed long enough to hear from the legislative candidates.

The County Prosecutor has filed criminal charges against the former Executive Director of the Island Hospital Foundation in connection with the embezzlement of as much as $300,000 over several years.

The Friends of Skagit Beaches will show four feature-length environmental films in the coming weeks in their Films with Friends series. Preceding the series is a fundraiser featuring two Seattle-based documentary filmmakers with behind-the-scenes stories.