(NAS WHIDBEY ISLAND)– Maintaining open lines of communication.  That was the dominant theme during Naval Air Station Whidbey Island’s bi-annual Community Leaders Forum, held Wednesday at the air station’s officer club. 

Capt. Mike Nortier, NAS Whidbey Island’s commanding officer, hosted the event attended by several base officials, …

(BURLINGTON)— Three people were arrested Wednesday after a property owner saw them near his truck, which had been taken apart the night before.

The property owner told police his trucks have been getting stripped over the past month, said Sgt. Keith Brown of the Skagit County Sheriff’s Office.

When the property owner …

(ROCKPORT)- The man newly charged with killing his longtime girlfriend in Rockport Sunday told a detective he choked her during an attempt to forcibly have sex with her.  Dwight Foster, 70, was charged Wednesday with second-degree murder in the death of 61-year-old Tracey Mathews, his girlfriend and caretaker with whom …

(ROCKPORT)— An autopsy indicated that the 61-year-old woman who died at her home in Rockport on Sunday was strangled, according to the coroner.  Authorities on Tuesday released the name of the victim, Tracey Mathews, after one of her daughters was notified of her death by the Skagit County Coroner’s Office.  …

(MOUNT VERNON)- Police arrested a man who reportedly tried to rob another man of his backpack and bicycle Monday evening in Mount Vernon.

About 4:30 p.m., a man approached the victim with a knife and tried to take the items from him on Freeway Drive at Cameron Way, according to police.

The …