Orcas Island High School can add state chess champions to its trophy case. Forty-eight teams qualified and competed at the ...

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When the weather turns warmer, tourists flock to Anacortes for a little taste of the mariner life and one of the area's most ...

A 4.5 magnitude earthquake hit near Orcas Island early Monday morning, according to the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network ...

Anacortes residents were awoken early Monday morning by a 4.5 magnitude earthquake near Orcas Island. The earthquake hit at 5 ...

Deer Beach on Orcas Island was the epicenter of a 4.5 magnitude earthquake at 5:02 am today. The quake followed a smaller ...

RANT AND RAVE Rave to the man who helped guide me to turn my car around when I mistakenly drove into the exit lane when entering a Seattle paid parking lot. Rather than stay in his car and honk, he ...

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Some baleen whale species are capable of evading orcas — their only known predators — by using stealth-like communication, according to new research. Specifically, the marine mammals can sing ...

Photo from John Towner, UnSplash Some baleen whale species are capable of evading orcas — their only known predators — by using stealth-like communication, according to new research.