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An Anacortes Police Sergeant was dispatched to 22^nd Street and R Avenue on Thursday evening about 8:00 pm for a one-car accident.

Anacortes Chamber of Commerce staff, including Laura Hartner dangling from overhead, are building a new kind of Christmas tree, one built of prawn pots, for the annual community tree-lighting set for Friday evening.

An Anacortes boat service business reported that burglar stole about $4,000 in boating equipment and caused another $1,000 damage in the process.

The Tommy Thompson Train locomotive ran along a short track on Monday for the first time in many years, thanks to a few dedicated volunteers and a consultant imported for the occasion from Montreal.

It’s a common dilemma among boat owners – the boat that once seemed just the right size eventually begins to feel a bit too small. What to do? Buy a bigger boat? Well, here’s another option. Just make the boat you have a little bigger.

A Starbucks employee here in Anacortes has designed a custom coffee blend which will be sold in their store on Friday.

Hungry customers dine on Southern-style food at what the owners call the first “trailer food” in Anacortes, located on the Depot Arts Center plaza.

The Skagit County Department of Emergency Management is collecting information from Skagit County residents and businesses on damage including losses suffered during the November 16_18, 2015 wind, landslide and flood event.

A confrontation at a hotel ended with a suspect arrested and sent to county jail.

Shell is facing $77,000 in fines from the state Department of Labor & Industries (L&I) for workplace health violations after an investigation into an uncontrolled toxic release from theis March Point refinery last February.