As it stands now, the county’s plan for the first phase of the Annex project is to construct one building, the shell of another and prepare the site of the third building for development. County ...

The new contract would guarantee assistants one day off a week except in December, when they could still be subject to mandatory overtime seven days a week. It would also give most carriers, but not ...

With 5 seconds left in the game, Joe Harward’s free throw gave Bellingham boys basketball a 79-78 lead over Meridian. Trojans’ coach Shane Stacy called a timeout to call a play for Talon Jenkins to ...

Terry Crump on June 2 at the Bellingham Golf and Country Club. Fairhaven Village Books will host "Gerald Baron in Conversation with Terry Crump" about the recently published book "It Was My Turn: One ...

Winter anglers rejoice: A state-managed recreational fishery on portions of the Skagit and Sauk rivers will open on Feb. 1 for steelhead fishing. The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife is ...

Data released late Wednesday by the state Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction estimates that local schools ...

Finally, on July 22, Julie Trimingham, Tammy Cooper-Woodrich and Angela Letoi are hosting a special storytelling cruise ...

A group of Skagit County residents have challenged a large battery energy storage system proposed on industrial land near the transfer station and airport west of Mount Vernon. Skagit County ...

Hundreds of thousands of people could lose coverage. Hospitals could close. State could lose billions in funding ...

The right lane and northbound Interstate 5 ramp to Lakeway Drive in Bellingham, milepost 253, will close for overnight maintenance Sunday night, July 13. Washington State Department of Transportation ...

Law enforcement were called to Memorial Park around 11:19 p.m. July 5 after multiple reports of multiple people being shot at ...

Layoffs have started at Whatcom Community College as administrators work to overcome a $3 million-plus deficit. The college will undertake a total of $1.5 million in staff reductions next fiscal year, ...