The last two years have been the deadliest for pipeline safety in nearly 15 years. Communities across the country continue to ...

Behind the picket line in the five-day strike outside St. Joseph Medical Center in Bellingham: employees reveal concerns ...

Bellingham City Council is considering a resolution affirming a “welcoming city” ensuring safety for all. In discussion at a ...

Indian grocery markets in Bellingham offer more than just food and products: they give back to their neighbors and provide customers a feeling of home. Twice a week, India Mart owner TJ Sekhon ...

Strategic planning process aims to steer Jansen Art Center into deeper sense of community. Jansen Art Center — at 321 Front Street in Lynden — has begun a strategic planning process that, in part, ...

Creating thriving mini-forests in small spaces. On a recent cool but clear Saturday — perfect planting weather — 43 volunteers gathered at Barkley Village in Bellingham to create a forest from scratch ...

After community pushback led to cancellation of a proposed metal shredding facility, ABC Recycling put the land, including 10 acres zoned for heavy industrial usage, up for sale. It remains unclear ...

Sauk River Estates, Nielsen Brothers negotiate path forward. Last year, tenants of Sauk River Estates near Concrete — a community of 83 manufactured homes — banded together to appeal a Department of ...

As healthcare shortages continue, workers continue to fight for better conditions. An estimated 900 service, tech workers and lab technicians of PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center in Bellingham ...

An executive order from the Trump administration will have negative trickle-down impacts on libraries in Whatcom, Skagit and San Juan counties, say library employees. The order calls for cuts to the ...

San Juan County’s electric utility organization is one step closer to harnessing a new kind of power in the Salish Sea. Orcas Power and Light Cooperative, or OPALCO, recently filed a draft application ...

“When we were delivering the paper last week, people would stop our news delivery volunteers on the street and ask for copies of the paper,” editor and publisher Kari Mar said. “We’ve gotten so many ...