Tesoro will begin to startup their March Point refinery on Monday, according to a report from Bloomberg News. The entire refinery is expected to be fully operational by Oct. 15 as “that fits with our mid-October plan for a restart,” Bloomberg quotes Lynn Westfall, a company spokesman.

Members of a volunteer mountain rescue team from Bellingham believe they have located the body of 71-year-old Anacortes climber Dallas Kloke, who fell during a climb near Mt. Larrabee.

A well-known local mountain climber is missing after he fell down a steep rock face in the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest east of here. Seventy-one year old Dallas Kloke of Anacortes was part of a 5-member climbing team when he fell Saturday afternoon.

Members of the Seattle Cassocks, a stunt team, pose for photos with fans after a perfomance at Sunday's Oyster Run. The town was filed with motorcyclists for the annual rally depite a nearly day-long drizzle.

A chocolate Labrador puppy was reunited with its mother and litter mates and a 21-year-old Anacortes woman was arrested on outstanding warrants following an investigation of a puppy taken from the Humane Society in Burlington earlier this month.  

Another popular local restaurant has closed. Bellissima Trattoria owners Marianne Mach and her son Tyler are seen here in June, 2009, when they raised a new sign on their Commercial Ave. eatery, but now they've closed.