The home of an Anacortes couple was burglarized the day after they left on an extended vacation. A neighbor discovered the burglary. That’s just one of the cases on this week’s Police Blotter.

In a first for Anacortes, Police busted a hydroponic marijuana-growing operation inside a storage unit at a mini-storage business on T Ave, arresting one Anacortes man.

Many of the several dozen people who turned out for a meeting this week were hoping for answers about a city agreement to sell up to 5-million gallons of water per day to what could be a bottling plant. 

Love beaches, clean water, tide pools? Beach Watchers is offering a 100 hour course aimed at protecting beaches.

The City Council took a closer look at just how a controversial transition to a hearing examiner for some future land use change requests might impact the city's insurance. The city's insurer had suggested the move to a hearing examiner.

A six-year old Anacortes first-grader was killed over the weekend after he was pulled from a float plane that crashed on Lake Goodwin. In a letter to students and staff, School Superintendent Chris Borgen identified the student as Jacob Jeter.