Police responded to a shots fired call around 11:50 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 18, near West Horton Road and Meridian Street, said Claudia Murphy, a patrol division lieutenant with Bellingham police.

Sehome’s Harley Kaiser won his first district tennis title after falling short last season. Kaiser won the district title over Bellingham’s Leo Kuhn 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 on Monday afternoon.

Now, the Lake Whatcom partners, working with the state Department of Fish and Wildlife and consulting group Four Peaks Environmental, have crafted a rapid response plan in case invasive mussels are ...

JESSE’S PICKS Jeffrey Foucault 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 28 New Prospect Theatre, 207 Prospect St. Jeffrey Foucault is the epitome of the road-hardened troubadour. For 20-plus years, ...

Across Skagit County, a host of small cities are seeing contested races for city council. Here are the candidates in those races. Jump to: Joe Burns and Karl de Jong are set for a rematch in the race ...

When the U.S. Department of Education announced the elimination of Title VI grant funding in September, the Center for Canadian-American Studies at Western Washington University took a 70% hit to its ...

Incumbent council member Michael Lilliquist, a proven public servant with a track record demonstrating that range, has earned reelection in a Bellingham City Council race against former local ...

Public K-12 schools in Washington are funded through a patchwork of sources, including money from the state for basic education and local tax dollars to cover nearly everything else.

Housing is a basic human need, yet Bellingham is the fourth-most unaffordable housing market in the nation. That demands change, not more of the same. We need zoning reform to allow smaller, more ...