Women played a key role on the American homefront during World War I. In Whatcom County, the “Minute Women” were among the ...

Support the continued planting of Kenney Creek, a tributary of the North Fork Nooksack River that provides spawning habitat for Chinook, chum, coho, and pink salmon, among other salmonids (steelhead, ...

At Whatcom County’s southeasternmost corner, bordering Skagit and Okanagan Counties, stand our county’s only two company towns: Newhalem and Diablo. Seattle City Light, a citizen-owned public utility, ...

Having grown up in Whatcom County and worked with property maps for the Whatcom County Assessor for almost 10 years, I thought I knew the county fairly well. Yet I hadn’t heard of the Racehorse Falls ...

Bellingham’s Mount Baker Theatre, a nearly 100-year-old downtown landmark, is an enduring artistic and architectural tribute to performance venues of a by-gone era. Before and after the Mount Baker ...

Ghost towns have long bewitched thrill-seekers. Monuments to timeless yet transitory industries of mining, logging, and fishing, Washington’s own ghost towns communicate history beyond words—and ...

In Bellingham, passersby don’t have to look far to find sculptures, murals, or other art that enliven our cityscape. In addition to many businesses commissioning local artists, public parks and ...

Fan of comic books? Video games? Tabletop? Say no more, because you’re speaking my language. As a fellow nerd, I know the pain of trying to meet like-minded people offline and in the wild. That’s why ...

Before becoming part of Bellingham, Fairhaven grew up along railway lines. The town boomed with the region’s industries — fishing, lumber, and mining — into the 1870s, seeking the Northern Pacific ...

Purportedly born at Bellingham's Whatcom Humane Society, Jed the wolfdog first appeared on-screen in John Carpenter's c1982 sci-fi horror film "The Thing" But in real life, the cross-bred canine was ...

Baby Cakes is the sound of synergy. Photo credit: Kenneth Kearney. A new eight-member group of highly experienced and talented musicians from several other Whatcom County bands, Baby Cakes classic ...

It’s insufficient to just say that the COVID-19 pandemic hurt much of what’s important to our collective day-to-day lives; for music fans and those who work in the industry, it was unclear if local ...