This series of stories for Cascadia Daily News’ America 250 project highlights locals who each exemplify one of the five core ...

I consider myself a patriotic person. I’ve seen many times what happens when someone gets excited about active participation ...

As Skagit Regional Health’s new staffing contract with Vituity for hospitalist services takes effect this month, multiple physicians have left the hospital rather than work for the California-based ...

It all culminates with Sunday’s Pride in Bellingham parade, which proceeds down Cornwall to Chestnut Street and finishes with a community festival at Depot Market Square. Info: prideinbellingham.org.

The Port of Bellingham will receive $23.5 million in federal money to renovate its aging shipping terminal, U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen’s office announced Wednesday, July 1. The money comes from the U.S.

On the day Les Rouges hoped for a nationwide coronation, Canada’s men failed to make a grand statement on the World Cup stage ...

There’s a new festival in town which, while not primarily a music festival, should be worth checking out for just about ...

Lighthouse Mission Ministries President and CEO Hans Erchinger-Davis is stepping down, effective June 30, the Mission announced in a Thursday, April 2 news release. Erchinger-Davis spent 20 years with ...

For years now, Bagley has been a top participant in Skagit County Remote Controls, a Facebook group consisting of more than 900 members. Several of the members gather nearly every weekend across ...

A Whatcom County Superior Court judge sentenced a Lynden man to nine and a half years in prison on Friday, May 29 for causing the death of a Lynden School District bus driver last year. Samuel Swanson ...

At Tuesday’s Whatcom County Council meeting, Councilmember Mark Stremler compared the fear undocumented immigrants live with to the inconvenience of being pulled over for a broken taillight ( CDN, ...

GUEMES ISLAND, Skagit County — With the Guemes Island Ferry unexpectedly out of commission for 11 weeks, residents and visitors had to make do with only a passenger ferry running between the small ...