La Conner News

A Kirkland man was charged with assault Wednesday in the July 5 attack on his girlfriend at a bed and breakfast near La Conner.

The Upper Skagit Indian Tribe recently purchased 6 acres on the La Conner waterfront, including a warehouse and small pier, for $6.8 million.

A volunteer working on earning his pyrotechnic license was in satisfactory condition Tuesday following a July 4 fireworks accident in La Conner.

Living in Anacortes, I have tried mostly all the restaurants here . Randy's Pier 61 has seafood, wine, is a little pricey but classy, good steak, too, and on the waterfront east of Commercial a few blocks off of 4th Street, a little street just before you go up the hill to Cap Sante rock.

A fireworks expert was severely burned Saturday night July 4 when a device exploded near his feet.

It's been one year since the law banning the use of hand-held cell phones n Washington took effect.

Plans for new U.S. Border Patrol headquarters in the Olympic Peninsula have been put on hold because of budget issues.

A 14-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a stranger who entered her home Tuesday morning, according to the Burlington police.

Firefighters extinguished a roof fire of an abandoned building northeast of Sedro-Woolley early Wednesday morning.

Friday Creek Road will be closed to traffic near its intersection with Parson Creek Road from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday for repairs to a flood-damaged road section.

When Mount Vernon was a nearly new county seat in Washington state around 1890, a pair of entrepreneurs rigged up a ferry to get passengers across the Skagit River at the town's edge, establishing the importance of that part of town, where a farmers market now thrives.

Burlington - All fireworks are banned. La Conner - Nonaerial, or Class C, fireworks are allowed on July 4. Mount Vernon - Nonaerial, or Class C, fireworks are allowed from noon to midnight July 4. No fireworks within 300 feet of forest land or parks.

Two couples on a pleasure cruise from Tacoma to La Conner made an unscheduled stop on Whidbey Island a mile from the Clinton ferry dock when their 45-foot boat slammed into the shore Tuesday afternoon after the crew at the controls apparently dozed off.

Councilman Bill Turner was ready Monday to throw his support behind a proposal to allow the library card holders in good standing in Anacortes, Burlington and La Conner to check out materials from the other two municipalities' libraries.

Kira Troutman, 11, and dog Bella compete in the Bark in the Park Dog Festival 'strut your stuff' contest Saturday.

WENATCHEE LEAVENWORTH CHELAN The Worm: Even police chiefs get the blues, and third cousins The Worm: Even police chiefs get the blues, and third cousins By Michele Mihalovich World staff writer What's in a name? Tom Robbins: chief of the Wenatchee Police Department.

Two couples on a pleasure cruise from Tacoma to La Conner made an unscheduled stop at Whidbey Island a mile from the Clinton ferry dock.

Chuckanut Brewery in Bellingham won both a Gold and Silver Award for its lager beers from the North American Beer Awards Competition, held in Idaho Falls, Idaho.

In 2008, the Anacortes Fire Department responded to nearly 2,700 calls, from false alarms and structural fires to vehicle accidents and cardiac arrests.

An eagle likely swooping in for food along Highway 20 Thursday evening hit an Anacortes police patrol vehicle and shattered its windshield.