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We’ve made it to Week 14 and there are just two weeks left in the 2015 session. I am really looking forward to getting home soon but we still have a lot of work to do before heading back.

Significant damage was done to two vehicles when an Oak Harbor driver attempted to pass a motorhome on the right on Highway 20, then swerved back to avoid another vehicle already in the right hand lane.

The brand new, 144-car Samish is set to officially take its place amid Washington state’s ferry system in June on regular runs out of Anacortes.

... Cool and unsettled conditions are expected across the western Washington lowlands on Saturday...

Two Oak Harbor women were killed as a result of a one-car traffic accident Wednesday when their vehicle, which was traveling eastbound, ran off Highway 20 near Reservation Rd. and hit a concrete barrier fronting Sunland Bank and Topsoils.

The Swinomish Indian Tribal Community filed a lawsuit in federal court Tuesday against BNSF Railway for allegedly violating the terms of an easement agreement allowing trains to cross the Reservation.

A police officer pulled a clever ruse to nab a gas station customer who filled up, the drove off.

Anacortes state House Democrat Kris Lytton writes from Olympia that she supports the proposed House budget for the coming because, "It is with this budget that we are supporting an economy that works for everyone, not just the wealthy few."

The victim in the shooting of a taxi driver in Mount Vernon on Monday night has been identified LisaMarie Eason, a 46 year old resident of Anacortes and a driver for Mert’s Taxi, a familiar sight around Anacortes.

In one of the fastest reopening efforts in the North Cascades Highway’s 42-year history, the state Department of Transportation crews will swing open the winter closure gates to traffic at 10 a.m. this Friday.