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Police investigated blue spray paint damage to numerous trees around Mt. Erie and Sugar Loaf in the Anacortes Community Forest Lands this week.

For urban planners, parking rules established decades ago have become a contentious 21st-century challenge. Parking takes up about one-third of land area in U.S. cities; nationwide, there are an estimated eight parking spaces for every car.

Some of the U.S.‘s wealthiest individuals reportedly pay just a tiny fraction of the billions of dollars added annually to their fortunes in federal income tax – sometimes they pay nothing at all.

Would you vote by mail if you had to drive hours to a post office to mail your ballot? That question confronts the United States Supreme Court this session in Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee, which analysts see as one of the most important voting rights cases in a decade.

A local woman bought nearly $10,000 worth of gift cards to clear what she thought was a bank problem that turned out to be a scam.

When the Associated Press fired Emily Wilder for violating its social media policy, it caused a firestorm in the media industry. Critics noted that the firing came only days after GOP activists called her biased, re-animating an ongoing debate about how responsible news organizations should deal with such accusations.

Aerospace giant Boeing tested two kinds of ionization technologies — like those widely adopted in schools hoping to combat covid — to determine how well each killed germs on surfaces and decided that neither was effective enough to install on its commercial planes.

The City of Anacortes will be celebrating our nation’s Independence Day on Sunday, July 4th, 2021. This year the city will have a firework display and a Patriotic Parade. The City is pleased to restart this Anacortes tradition. 

When the pandemic sidelined in-office visits at his practice, Dr. Dael Waxman “wasn’t exactly thrilled with being at home.” But he quickly shifted gears to video and telephone appointments.

The Anacortes School District continues to cooperate with the Anacortes Police Department on a likely prank bomb threat, based on a message left on a district voicemail over the weekend.