Editor, What an absolutely wonderful bit of work done by Sophia Gates regarding Skagit County’s Big Rock Park (CDN, Aug. 9, 2025). I greatly enjoyed not only learning of it, but ...

Mabel the brown cow is now a resident of the Heaven on Earth Animal Retirement Sanctuary in Friday Harbor. Volunteers transported the 1-year-old cow — who captured hearts last fall as she made a home ...

Two months after the Port of Bellingham Board of Commissioners fired Executive Director Rob Fix, the search is on to find his replacement. But his replacement likely won’t be found until late November ...

Bellis Fair shifts local. Cosmic Games has announced it’s moving into the long-without-a-permanent-tenant Designer Shoe Warehouse spot on the outside of Bellis Fair mall. The lo ...

Acclaimed restaurant Carnal is up for sale as a turnkey business per an August BizBuySell listing. Amid increased focus on their jerky and meat stick brand, also called Carnal, partner Skip Williamson ...

Whatcom County Council members’ salaries have more than doubled in the last five years, going from around $36,000 in 2020 to more than $79,000 in 2025. However, the rapid growth of compensation for a ...

Hatchery-raised Chinook salmon will be returning to Whatcom Creek in record numbers in the coming months, state officials predict.

The lower Padden Creek Trail between 10th Street/Donovan Avenue and 6th Street is temporarily closed and will reopen when the spill is cleaned up. The section of the Interurban Trail between 10th and ...

The Bellingham Bells defeated the Wenatchee AppleSox 4-3 in a best-of-three series in the first round of the West Coast ...

“It came out of nowhere,” Kohler said. “It kind of just went from zero to 60.” ...

Two bakers at the Barkley Village Haggen Food and Pharmacy are decorating cakes and cupcakes with the visages of animals who’ve been at the Whatcom Humane Society for a while.

The National Weather Service issued a heat advisory for northwest and west central Washington, including Whatcom and Skagit counties, starting at 2 p.m. today through 10 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 12.