Depot Arts Center’s Garden Art Fair returns for a 6th year this weekend. Whether it’s for indoor gardens, outdoor gardens or the gardens of our imaginations, inspiration and opportunities for creative gardening and outdoor living abound.

The City Council has okayed a set of conditions allowing the Leeward East’s housing development near the ferry landing to move ahead. 

It looks like west end residents could get better AT&T cell phone reception soon, thanks to new cell tower, planned in Skyline.

(Updated) A police officer and the city have settled a grievance filed over his firing by the city. Under the agreement, the city rescinded the officer’s firing and allowed the officer to resign instead.

An overturned car, resting on its roof. No one around. A passing motorist calls 911. Anacortes Police put the story together.

The recently-expanded Soroptimist Thrift Shop is now open for business at 3rd St. and O Ave. The $450,000 expansion roughly doubled the space.