La Conner News

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.

Skagit County's long-range planning has been severely curtailed after two budget cuts in six months.

Paddles were not in short supply this weekend, as the Cultus Lake Canoe Festival took over Main Beach.

Anacortes High School senior Ariel Madden can't remember a time when she didn't want to go to college.

A 47-year-old La Conner man was arrested on investigation of rape Monday evening after he was spotted having sex with a 40-year-old woman near a public restroom in downtown La Conner.

Long-time Stanwood/Camano News Publisher and Editor Dave Pinkham said this week that he is retiring and will entrust his weekly newspaper to Mount Vernon-based Skagit Publishing.

Anacortes High School Ana Hobson, far right, was a finalist in the Ann Washington Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution good citizen essay contest.