After 30 years in the same location, Allied Arts of Whatcom County is changing direction in 2025. The Bellingham nonprofit will celebrate the grand opening of its new gallery, located at 1213 Cornwall ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump will put in place 25% tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico and 10% tariffs on goods ...

A 49-year-old male suspect was arrested in connection to a shooting that injured two people inside a Mount Vernon home Sunday morning, Dec 24. The two victims, a 50-year-old male and a 53-year-old ...

The City of Bellingham plans to lobby the state Legislature for money to fund industrial cleanups and an upgraded court facility, ahead of the legislative session starting next week. Also top of the ...

As Whatcom County faces a near-doubling of costs for the Lummi Island electric-battery hybrid ferry project, Skagit County’s Guemes Island Ferry project is on pause with funding in flux. Like Whatcom, ...

Western Washington University men’s basketball teammates, sophomore Louis Grante-Halliday and freshman Bennett Olujic, have a connection that goes past the court. Their steadfast friendship has ...

Don’t head to Drayton Harbor to harvest shellfish right now: the Washington State Department of Health has issued an emergency closure for recreational and commercial molluscan shellfish harvest in ...

Somewhere the ghost of a former president is shouting “vindication” from his gravesite in Tennessee. Specifically James K. Polk. The 11th president staked his 1844 presidential campaign on the ...

Boy Scouts across the region will pick up Christmas trees on Saturday, Jan. 4. Troops will be picking up trees from houses in Bellingham, Sudden Valley, Ferndale, Birch Bay, Blaine, Lynden and Everson ...

Habitat for Humanity in Whatcom County was given a surprise early Christmas present in the form of a $10,000 grant. The donation was originally set to be $2,500 from the Washington Federal Foundation, ...

For the past two summers, my elementary-aged daughters have attended “theatre camp.” Over two intensive weeks at the Lincoln Theatre in Mount Vernon, they take on an entire production and then perform ...

Organizations across Whatcom County work to help homeless people get into emergency and permanent housing, and provide needed outreach services. Here’s a non-exhaustive list of volunteer opportunities ...