Scholarship application information and posters for the Assistance League of Bellingham’s 2026 Summer Enrichment Scholarship Program are being delivered to all Whatcom County public middle and high ...

Having grown up in Whatcom County and worked with property maps for the Whatcom County Assessor for almost 10 years, I thought I knew the county fairly well. Yet I hadn’t heard of the Racehorse Falls ...

Bellingham’s Mount Baker Theatre, a nearly 100-year-old downtown landmark, is an enduring artistic and architectural tribute to performance venues of a by-gone era. Before and after the Mount Baker ...

Ghost towns have long bewitched thrill-seekers. Monuments to timeless yet transitory industries of mining, logging, and fishing, Washington’s own ghost towns communicate history beyond words—and ...

Today, Bellingham’s PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center is a 253-bed hospital offering comprehensive regional healthcare and employing more than 2,500 people. But more than 120 years ago, the ...

Mariah and Shawn Butenschoen became used to hearing the phrase “probably shouldn’t” over the years. It happened when they first planted blueberries on their Everson property and decided to organically ...

In almost any downtown, time brings inevitable change: businesses come and go, buildings are remodeled or knocked down, and progress renders the present much different than the past. But at 113 East ...

Portland, OR junkbox blues duo, Hillstomp, toured through the Wild Buffalo in April. Photo by Kenneth Kearney Photography. If you love rock, hip hop, jazz, blues, soul, folk, or classical, Whatcom ...

As the school year winds to an end, art teachers across Whatcom County take a look at what their students have been up to. They see who has mastered their craft, and who is working hard at improving.

“Food deserts” are defined as urban areas that lack access to affordable or healthy foods, contributing to the food insecurity that afflicts tens of millions of Americans. In Bellingham, Birchwood ...

As an amateur fisherman, I’m often more likely to catch a boot than a trout. Yet I find myself going back out again, because I truly enjoy the solitude one finds sitting with a line bobbing out in the ...

Blaine, Washington: Where America Begins. Sitting on the very northwest corner of Washington and a formal doorway between the U.S. and Canada, Blaine is a small town with a lot of history. Blaine has ...