First Fed, headquartered in Port Angeles and serving communities across Western Washington, is one example of how local ...

That is, until his daughter, Rebecca Pratt, ultimately found out about the diaries and, through a remarkable chain of events, brought them to life in the book “The Cigarette Diaries” and now an ...

Barron Home Services' historic Pay Back Program is back—and now extended by popular demand until February 28, 2026.

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

Better known as the Columbus Day Storm or “The Big Blow,” this event formed from the remnants of a Pacific typhoon to become a devastating extratropical cyclone.

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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 ...

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 ...

On Bellingham’s Telegraph Road, just east of Bellis Fair Mall, a weathered wooden signpost clashes with the urban sprawl. Titled “Old Telegraph Road,” the sign describes how a telegraph line ran along ...

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 ...

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 ...