A 27-year-old Bellingham man is in a Seattle hospital with serious injuries, while a 24-year-old Mount Vernon man sits in jail after a late-night crash in Burlington on Jan. 7.

The district is hosting a Superintendent Search Community & Families Forum at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 7 at Brodniak Hall (1600 20 th St., Anacortes). People can also tune in online on the Anacortes ...

When the heat becomes stifling, you slip outside for a dip in frigid water. The ensuing dopamine rush makes any discomfort worth it. Nordic-style saunas like these are cropping up in states from ...

“We can’t go backwards,” Dan Chaplik, interim superintendent of the Blaine School District, told the crowd. “It should be a core expectation of every single community that we build programs that ...

The Experience: Take a gentle stroll through the woods, walk on a pedestrian bridge over the train tracks and down some stairs, and you’ve found yourselves on one of Whatcom County’s best beaches.

Teeter’s investigation showed Anacortes actually only had one helmet the entire season for their players. The confusion came when Anacortes purchased Riddell’s “Skinz” product. Skinz is a shell that ...

Bellingham boys wrestling dominated in a cross-town dual with Squalicum Tuesday, Jan. 6, with the Bayhawks taking advantage of a handful of forfeits for a 57-23 victory over the Storm at Squalicum ...

Skagit County’s new commissioner is Joe Burns, a Sedro-Woolley City Council member. Burns is replacing county commissioner Lisa Janicki, who retired last week. Commissioners Ron Wesen and Peter ...

The other initiative, IL26-638, seeks to block transgender girls from competing in girls’ sports. Backers gathered 445,187 signatures for that measure, Let’s Go Washington said. Initiative sponsors ...

JESSE’S PICKS The Mortadells 8 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 15 Odd Fellows Temple Room, 311 E. Holly St. The Mortadells is a new-ish name for a bunch of folks you might have seen before ...

He pressed a big red button attached to a Crayola airbrush, spraying blue paint onto a white piece of paper. Once enough blue paint was on the page for his liking, he switched to glue, using a ...

Whatcom County rolled out its first-ever generative-AI policy in November, as government employees increasingly use the technology. The three-page document created guardrails as many cities throughout ...