The city Planning Commission is recommending rejection of a rezone request from MJB Properties that could bring a larger retailer, such as Fred Meyer, to Anacortes. The recommendation now moves to the City Council, which will decide the issue.

"The Bath," a short film by Anacortes filmmaker Mark Lundsten, shown here with his wife Teru, has won two awards at recent film festivals, both for Best Narrative Short.

Johanne Schmidt starts her day at 5:30 to do the morning bake. Her business, Jalillah’s Cookies, is located in the back of the Penguin coffee shop on Commercial Avenue.

A second of twin teenaged girls involved in a Halloween night traffic accident on Highway 20 near Gibralter Rd. died Monday in Seattle.

Members of OARS, the Old Anacortes Rowing Society, Monday helped pay tribute to the nation's veterans during the Veteran's Day ceremony at the Port of Anacortes as a Foss tug passed along the Guemes Channel.

CenturyLink said its crews have located both ends of a severed cable causing a network outage impacting the San Juan Islands and said the break may have been caused by an earthquake.