Leave it to a pod of orcas to crash the gray whales’ annual party.
While Whidbey Island celebrates the annual return of gray whales, a large pod of Southern Resident orcas have been splashing around Saratoga Passage in recent days, upstaging the larger marine mammals.
It’s a rare sight to see resident orcas in the waterway between Whidbey and Camano islands in April and even more unusual to see them travel so deeply into Holmes Harbor near Freeland.
A day rarely goes by that Rick Castellano doesn’t feel a sense of approval from Janet Enzmann.
It’s a good thing sticky notes were in abundant supply at the Coupeville Recreation Hall Monday night.
Joseph Itaya’s dream was to bring Whidbey Island to the big screen. In spirit, he believes he was still able to accomplish that.
Jack Hartt and his staff at Deception Pass State Park will remember 2015 as another busy year bustling with visitors and projects.
He was as mysterious as the fog that snakes its way over Ebey’s Prairie. Who was Frank Pratt, Jr.?
A church in Greenbank is cooking up a free holiday meal for the public in celebration of Thanksgiving.
Two South Whidbey people were killed this week in separate accidents that occurred on the same stretch of highway on Central Whidbey.
A single-engine civilian aircraft carrying four people made an emergency landing at the Naval Outlying Field near Coupeville this past week.
Before you empty your wallet on the latest, fanciest digital camera or lens, take note of the winning entry in the Whidbey Camano Land Trust calendar photo contest.
Gary Schallock holds a soft spot in his heart for Coupeville’s Pacific Northwest Art School.
When Frances Sweeney was a young girl, one of her childhood sanctuaries was her grandparents’ home in Los Alamitos, Calif.
She remembers the chili peppers in their garden, the eucalyptus trees and the orange groves nearby.
After her grandfather died in 1969, her grandmother finally relented to the demands of a developer and sold the land.
On more than one occasion, Anna Swartz poked fun at the couple standing next to her.
These were good-natured jabs, the sort of thing that happens among friends at recognition dinners such as the one hosted by the Whidbey Audubon Society this past week in Coupeville.
