150 swimmers briefly plunged into the high tide waters of Double Bluff Beach in Freeland on Jan. 1.

An overnight incident involving an exchange of gunfire with police in Clinton and a kidnapping in Oak Harbor ended with the ...

The following are the top news stories from the front pages of the South Whidbey Record in 2025. A surge in norovirus appeared to hit Island County, as indicated by health care providers, school ...

Bruiser the elk has been making local headlines since his arrival on the island in 2012, when he likely broke from the herd in a neighboring county and swam over to Whidbey in search of some solitary ...

A Navy presence and limited available housing keep the real estate market on Whidbey mostly steady. Whidbey’s real estate market is typically insulated from buying and selling trends affecting the ...

From her calculations, the EHV program in Island County will run out of money by the end of August or September 2026. It was always intended to be a temporary program, but the reality of a much ...