Although the dust has yet to settle over a now-infamous waterfront clearcut at the former Mar Vista Resort, the property’s new owners are in pursuit of a dock.
Roy Matsumoto bested the Great Depression and discrimination of his day only to find himself branded an “enemy alien” by the country of his birth, and then banished to an internment camp alongside so many other Americans of Japanese ancestry after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
The amount of acreage in the newly created San Juan Islands national monument totals just about 1,000.
An Orcas Island man with a history of breaking-and-entering and who forced his way into a Rosario-area home in late December, demanding money at gunpoint from the couple that live there, was ordered to serve the next two years in prison following his latest felony conviction.
Nearly a decade after the southern resident killer whales were listed as endangered under federal law, the U.S. Fisheries Service is now proposing to give Lolita – the orca captured 44 years ago in Penn Cove and sold to a Florida aquarium – protection of the Endangered Species Act as well.
The use of automatic weapons with killer whales nearby could lead to a tragic outcome.
The amount of critical habitat afforded to the Southern Resident killer whales will grow by leaps and bounds, if the Center for Biological Diversity has its way.
It is easy to understand why James and Nicole Coddington are increasingly comfortable with learning to expect the unexpected.
An Orcas Island man is contesting two criminal convictions for violating local development rules for his use of a building constructed on his property without permits and without a county-approved sewage disposal system.
Despite its preeminence in the aerospace industry, Washington is not among the six states recently selected by the Federal Aviation Administration to develop test sites for drones.
There is considerable concern in the community about a traffic stop that occurred on Christmas Eve in downtown Friday Harbor.
Turns out that 2013 is well on its way to being a banner year for love, honor and commitment in Washington state, and in the San Juan Islands as well.
Those who travel by ferry in the San Juans will likely be able to do what they’ve always done at any hotel or restaurant: make a reservation.
