The Fourth brings a community celebration that includes a town photo, a patriotic program, a parade, music & fireworks.

A confrontation involving one man with a machete and another with a bat drew Anacortes Police to a grocery store parking lot.

Very cool! Island Transit has a new bus route that can take hikers right into Fort Ebey State Park, Fort Casey State Park and to the Ebey’s Landing trailhead to the Ebey’s Bluff Trail. But it’s only for the summer and not many know about it. So I decided to try it myself. Here’s what I learned.

AAA projects 50.7 million Americans will travel 50 miles or more from home this Independence Day weekend*, setting a new record for the four-day holiday weekend. 

The Anacorters School District, in an effort to rebut complaints about the pending loss of school librarians, says school libraries will remain open in the coming school year.

The government faces legal restrictions on how much personal information it can gather on citizens, but the law is largely silent on agencies purchasing the data from commercial brokers.