Herrera Beutler and Upthegrove represent conflicting ideas about the future of management for the state’s trust lands, with ...

County unemployment stands at 5% A typical spring of lower unemployment rates is over in Whatcom and Skagit counties. New ...

A union representing nearly 5,000 state government and community college employees in Washington has overwhelmingly rejected a new two-year contract, puttin ...

Bellingham City Council is considering actions to prevent or limit landlords from charging tenants excessive or unfair fees, ...

A 41-year-old man is recovering after being shot during a drive-by shooting near Skagit Valley College Monday afternoon, Sept ...

Ferndale senior Katie Manly is a three-time state cross country competitor. “It’s a really cool experience because there were ...

Borage, though an annual plant, is wildly successful at self-seeding. Many volunteer borage plants have popped up in my yard ...

Bellingham resident Katie Grainger, who has been personally impacted by cancer, was one of more than 750 advocates who traveled to Washington, D.C., in mid-September as part of the annual American ...

For the first time in 12 years, Gov. Jay Inslee will not be heading back to the governor’s mansion. Instead, Washingtonians ...

Longtime Whatcom County residents might remember visiting the “bat caves,” a location in the Chuckanut Mountains so named for ...

Throughout her career, Bellingham resident Deb Dempsey has been no stranger to danger, nor challenging the status quo. Dempsey, now 75, was the first female Columbia River Bar pilot, making her a ...

From private residences to cultural institutions, “green” roofs are cropping up on more buildings — including the Whatcom Museum’s Lightcatcher Building in downtown Bellingham. Olson Kundig architects ...