Scholarship application information and posters for the Assistance League of Bellingham’s 2026 Summer Enrichment Scholarship Program are being delivered to all Whatcom County public middle and high ...

Whatcom Community College has developed most of its sculptures through the Washington State Arts Commission’s Art in Public Places program.

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 ...

Mina Jane Mead was the wife of Washington’s fifth Governor Albert E. Mead (1905-1909). She played an active role in Bellingham’s civic and social life for decades.

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As you drive north on Boulevard from Fairhaven to Bellingham, the road passes a roundabout and leads up a gentle hill. Here, it becomes North Forest Street and curves along the base of a retaining ...

Harold Niven has lived across the street from the FireHouse Arts and Events Center for almost 20 years. Long enough, that is to say, to have watched it transform from a working fire station to the ...

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 ...

Locally owned community businesses have the ability to become second homes filled with families. The process takes years of owners, employees, and customers organically creating a community within a ...

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 ...

Today, Bellingham’s PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center is a 253-bed hospital offering comprehensive regional healthcare and employing more than 2,500 people. But more than 120 years ago, the ...

In the Pacific Northwest and elsewhere, history lives through both textbook and novel means. That’s what award-winning Bellingham author Janet Oakley strives to communicate. After earning a history ...