Next year’s budget trims expenses by eliminating 51 staff positions, extending the county’s hiring freeze indefinitely and giving the county’s senior nutrition program to another provider. As “a ...

A 34-year-old man died Sunday, Dec. 7, after jumping from a moving tour bus on the freeway near Bellingham, causing the right lane of northbound Interstate 5 to be blocked for more than three hours.

Last December, the city selected a site plan for the updated complex, which includes a planned “land swap” between the City of Bellingham and Bellingham Public Schools to relocate Carl Cozier ...

Tim Hohmann, the assistant director of public works for transportation, presented the Holly Street Bike Facility Study to the Bellingham City Council on Monday. An uninterrupted bike lane the entire ...

Michael Shepard, a three-term Port of Bellingham Commissioner, announced on Monday that he would be running in 2026 for the 42nd Legislative District Senate seat.

Outside Kulshan Hall at Whatcom Community College, a stone sphere appears to be floating on its rock counterpart to the naked eye. In reality, it’s being pushed by a flow of water — a flow that is ...

Lummi Nation girls basketball senior Ailina Rabang began playing the sport after watching her father play hoops in the Navy when she was 5 years old. Over a decade later, combo guard Rabang credits ...

SKAGIT COUNTY — After 19 years in Edison’s historic schoolhouse, Smith & Vallee Gallery will close permanently at the end of 2025. The space is considered one of Skagit County’s premier venues for ...

A Whatcom County Sheriff’s detective under criminal investigation for allegedly creating and disclosing a sexual AI-generated video of a female colleague may have violated a new state law that makes ...

About 40 people gathered in Lynden Middle School on Saturday afternoon, as the deadline for a conservative group to collect enough signatures for two initiatives fast approaches.

The day Russell was found facedown, floating in the Skagit River outside Mount Vernon, he wore only a pair of dark blue cutoff jeans and a red bandana tied around his waist. He wasn’t dressed for the ...

As part of his job as a forensic anthropologist, Dr. Andrew Seidel puts together biological profiles of unidentified remains. During an interview with Cascadia Daily News, he walked us through how he ...