Bellingham’s street names follow many conventions: letters, numbers, state names, American founding father names, Coast Salish place names, and more. Others, however, reference historical figures and ...

The heat wasn’t the only thing emanating all around Joe Martin Stadium on July 16, 2024, as the Bellingham Bells kicked off its WCL All-Star events with a very special Community Champions game. Smiles ...

Storyteller Hilde Festerling releases the final episode of her Goat American Novel podcast this month, completing a multi-year, multidisciplinary project. Set in the farmlands of Whatcom County, Hilde ...

Community is music. Music is community. Exemplifying that idea as a master world-renowned musician, cellist Yo-Yo Ma not only praised the Bellingham Symphony Orchestra musicians and singers on the ...

Anyone who’s ever strolled through Fairhaven knows that the name of Dirty Dan Harris is hard to avoid. He’s best known as the ...

College town. County seat. Natural wonderland. These are just a few descriptors that set Bellingham’s identity apart. Named for its bay, which George Vancouver dubbed after Sir William Bellingham in ...

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 ...

When met with a challenge, Western Washington University student JoJo Grubesic is the type of person who uses the obstacle as ...

Wyld Flamingos are the premier funk band of Bellingham, Washington with a groove that is undeniably transcendent! Fairhaven ...

First Fed is now accepting entries for their 2026 Proudly PNW Photo Contest, which celebrates the creativity and talent of photographers throughout our communities.

At Whatcom County’s southeasternmost corner, bordering Skagit and Okanagan Counties, stand our county’s only two company towns: Newhalem and Diablo. Seattle City Light, a citizen-owned public utility, ...

Museum curators wear many hats, in part depending upon the size of the museum in which they work. The Whatcom Museum, the Skagit County Historical Museum, and the Museum of Northwest Art (MoNA) are ...