Construction has started on Bellingham’s most ambitious new waterfront park. In tandem with a major cleanup of contaminated industrial sites on the bay, the city is developing Salish Landing Park, a ...

Skagit Valley College President Christopher Villa was terminated Thursday after more than three years at the helm of the Mount Vernon community college. The Board of Trustees voted unanimously to end ...

Emergency repairs on State Route 542, the Mount Baker Highway, are ramping up as crews work to fix damage from the December ...

The 2026 Ski to Sea registration has been filled as of Friday, Jan. 16, t he quickest the seven-leg relay race has ever sold out. The final 75 spots out of 500 teams were taken within minutes after a ...

At the Bellingham Sportsplex, beer kegs aren’t known for their liquid fun, but rather their solid potential. The facility hosted its third Keg Curling tournament on the ice rink on Friday, Jan. 9, ...

Senior Olivia Hodges scored a team-high 22 points, Carmen Dolfo coached her 1,000th career game and Western women’s basketball cruised past winless Alaska Fairbanks for a 72-47 Great Northwest ...

Rochelle Hollowell, a member of the East Whatcom Community Council, argues homeowners who won’t fix blight issues within a set time period should face losing their property. Right now, there are “no ...

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In August, youth racers from Bellingham’s Galbraith Gravity Racing (GGR) program, a race team for up-and-coming youth in the enduro and downhill mountain-biking disciplines, competed in several ...

Loca Mocha is more than a typical coffee shop. The week before the flood, the shop hosted an event for local families where each child got free winter clothes and a gift. When the federal government ...

Sedro-Woolley is led by Reagan Evans and Kelsey Woolcock, who are combining for over 20 points per game. Although the Cubs have a couple of scorers, their loss of margin in league play is about 16 ...

Western Washington University’s Community Consortium for Cultural Recognition is hosting its annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Community Celebration Monday, Jan. 19 at Sehome High School. The free, ...