The key question: How do we slow and stop these harmful policies? The answer: Stay engaged and get involved in issues ...

Over the last 40 years, Islands’ Oil Spill Association has responded to almost 1,000 marine oil pollution incidents in and ...

In the coming months the Marine Life Center — a Port of Bellingham-run facility at 1801 Roeder Avenue — will undergo ...

December 2025’s record rainfall in Northwest Washington left low-income and mobile-home communities especially vulnerable, with many losing their homes, possessions and sense of security.

Commentary: The legislative process is far from perfect, but there are some key threads in successful and meaningful policy.

Lopez High School senior Sophie Citro stands silhouetted against a light outside of the school. Her eyes are fixed on an ...

Currently, the combined capacity of the Whatcom County Jail and the Interim Work Center is 359. Calls for a new jail have ...

Native American Heritage Month, observed in November, was signed into existence in 1990 by President George H. W. Bush. Decades of effort led up to that point. By 1915, Arthur C. Parker, a Seneca ...

A new President Apartments mural highlights tulips and more. Downtown Mount Vernon recently implemented bright paintings of flowers into the windows of the President Apartments building, combining the ...

Nearly a year after Alcoa Corporation announced an agreement to sell its closed Intalco Works aluminum smelter to a Canadian energy company, the prospective buyer continues to hold its cards close to ...

Because sharks don’t have bones like other fish, researchers must find creative ways to determine how old they are. Currently, scientists with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife are ...

Longtime Lyndenites reflect on how the Christian-dominated culture has evolved throughout history. On the first day of Advent, the four-week Christian season of preparation and anticipation leading up ...