The Northwest Clean Air Agency has selected Trident Seafoods to receive this year’s Partners for Clean Air Platinum award. The plant, which produces more than 230 seafood products, achieved the agency’s top honor for businesses for its exceptional work to improve air quality.

Dozens of hearty people run into the water at Seafarers' Park Saturday to raise more than $7,000 for Washington Special Olympics's Polar Plunge.

A 50-year-old Anacortes man was rushed to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle after being found in a partially-submerged dingy at Seafarers Park.

As Anacortes struggles with plans to update its Comprehensive Plan over the next couple of years, I thought I’d share the findings of two urbanists who examined how cities in the Vancouver, BC area are finding new ways to involve diverse voices beyond “the usual suspects.”

Lance Burdon was a pioneering Anacortes photographer at the turn of the 20th century. His photographic legacy is chronicled in Lance Burdon: A Photographic Journey, a new book by the late Nancy Werner Mathews.

Anacortes High School is one of 23 schools statewide and the only Skagit County school to have earned the Career Guidance Award of Excellence for outstanding work in their college and career readiness programs, according to a statement from the state school superintendent Randy Dorn.