The Swinomish Indian Tribal Community and Washington State Parks have found funding to build a small parking lot and develop trails to allow anyone to the treasure called Kukutali Preserve on Kiket Island.

Telephone and Internet service is slowly coming back on line in the San Juan Islands as a barge team works to identify and pull the severed cable to shallower water, according to CenturyLink, which provides the phone and Internet service.

More scams were reported this week, including one in which a woman lost about $2,000 while thinking she was purchasing a car listed for sale on craigslist.com. A business owner lost $800 in a so-called 'Green Dot' scam.

No real change with the latest election update Friday afternoon, with challenger Laurie Gere still holding onto 62-percent of the vote to Mayor Dean Maxwell's 38-percent. As of Friday afternoon, Gere has 4,492 votes to Maxwell's 2,735 votes. No change in other races.

The San Juan County Council declared a state of emergency Friday in the wake of the "catastrophic" failure of a wide spectrum of communication capability in the islands. A fiber optic cable linking the islands failed on Tuesday morning.

Anacortes PD has recieved several reports recently of what are known as "Green Dot" scams, which are scams which ask a victim to transfter funds to a Green Dot account for some legitimate-sounding reason. Then the money disappears.