Snow enthusiasts and homebodies rejoice: an atmospheric river is making its way through the Pacific Northwest over the weekend, and is expected to leave Bellingham with its first dusting of snow since ...

The Lummi Nation Police Department, Whatcom County Sheriff’s Office and the FBI are assisting in the search for the 62-year-old. Law enforcement is recommending people avoid the Balch Road search ...

Bloodworks Northwest declared its own code red emergency on Jan. 27. In the announcement, the nonprofit organization, which provides blood to 95% of Pacific Northwest hospitals, said more than 25,000 ...

A 42-year-old Whatcom County Public Works maintenance worker died in a collision Tuesday morning at a work site near East Smith and Noon roads in Whatcom County. First responders were called to the ...

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 ...

Bellingham & Whatcom Housing Authority is working on a 60- to 70-unit project at 202 Unity St. in downtown Bellingham. The project will aim to serve people who make between 30% and 60% of area median ...

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, ...

After two public hearings in September and December 2024, the Skagit Board of County Commissioners voted on Jan. 27 to establish the 2025 ferry fare schedule, which will go into effect starting Feb.

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 ...