All combined, Oak Harbor residents will receive an estimated $10.2 million from the federal government in economic stimulus checks this spring.
A former employee at the county road shop who stole thousands of dollars from the Island County Public Works Union may end up serving a sentence at his home in Utah.
The future of the Oak Harbor Airport is still up in the air as two dueling auctions are scheduled for the property.
Second District Rep. Rick Larsen announced Thursday that he’s giving throwing his support as a superdelegate to Sen. Barack Obama.
A 19-year-old woman accused of hiding stolen loot under her baby and punching a Wal-Mart security employee is wanted on a $10,000 bench warrant, court records show.
A 28-year-old Oak Harbor man is accused of forcing a woman to stay in her home and making her walk across cut glass, court documents show.
A great deal of money is already flowing into campaigns that need to woo Whidbey Island voters.
Ann Bell jokes around with a husband and wife as the female half is hooked up to an IV line that’s bringing chemotherapy drugs to her body.
A Seattle police detective and the leader of the entire race of vampires will be duking it out on Whidbey Island this month.
Gov. Christine Gregoire personally saw to it that a high-risk, Level 3 sex offender won’t be roaming the streets of Oak Harbor.
A 30-year-old Coupeville man is accused of assaulting a woman who had a protection order against him, court documents state. Prosecutors charged Joseph Pfaendler in Island County Superior Court with assault in violation of a protection order. He could face from six months to a year in jail if convicted of the charge.
Pfaendler pleaded not guilty March 31.
A 20-year-old Oak Harbor man was sentenced to jail for biting a jailer on the leg. As part of a plea bargain, Jaquan Wilson pleaded guilty in Island County Superior Court April 21 to assault in the third degree. A charge of second-degree malicious mischief was dismissed.
A high-risk, Level 3 sex offender who’s getting out of prison in May wanted to move to Everett, where he had been offered housing. But officials from the Department of Corrections, citing a new state law, are instead sending him to Oak Harbor, where he will live on the streets.
