Cafe Hazeltree & Emmaquatics, a late-night cafe and aquarium, are on track to open in downtown Bellingham on Oct. 3. The two businesses will be located in the old Woods Coffee location at 1135 ...

The Washington State Department of Transportation decided to close the bridge to eastbound traffic through the entire 10-month project to limit backups on both sides of the river and ensure timely ...

And so, Dress Up Bellingham is really meant to be a message. It’s meant to motivate and inspire, but it’s also the message, succinctly put, is: You get to wear whatever you want. You get to. … There’s ...

Annie Dillard wrote 'The Living' about early Bellingham settlers. Here are other books with ties to Whatcom County ...

The free festival, now in its 10th year, is dedicated not just to seafood, but to the “working waterfront, maritime culture, sustainable seafood, and ocean conservation,” per its mission statement.

Those include a new enrollment goal of 16,000 students by 2030, plans to create a College of Health Sciences, a new work group to develop university-wide standards for artificial intelligence and a ...

Long term, the vision for the new Bellingham bus station is ambitious. WTA hopes the project will also include workforce and market-rate housing, retail and office space, childcare, and amenities for ...

A fire broke out Saturday night at the former Bornstein Seafoods headquarters at 1001 Hilton Ave. on the Bellingham waterfront. Jay Bornstein, former owner of Bornstein (now Starlight One LLC), was on ...

The City of Bellingham and six other local Washington jurisdictions are suing multiple federal agencies over new conditions that could put $87 million in federal grants at risk.

Teachers in Lynden School District started the school year two weeks ago without a contract, after six months of negotiations between the union and the district failed to reach a compromise. As ...

Both directions of State Route 546/East Badger Road near Lynden will close for four nights, beginning Sunday, Sept. 13, as crews make pavement repairs. A 4 1/2-mile stretch of eastbound and westbound ...

A significant change in services at a small homeless shelter in Bellingham is the first visible impact of a reduction in funding for homeless services in Whatcom County. Sun House, a nine-bedroom ...