“The people you vote for affect your daily life,” said Barbara Sharp, co-president of the League of Women Voters of San Juan ...

Lopez Library — a  library ‘like none other’ — is asking voters to lift property tax levy lids to enable continued community ...

Commentary: We as a community must work more closely and be more cognizant of our positions and how we can use those to help ...

A Bellingham partnership uses free community yoga to change perceptions of pit bulls and find them loving homes.

Community support has been key in keeping hospice services locally run. Recent statistics indicate overdosed-related dispatch ...

San Juan Preservation Trust continues 19-year effort to boost native Western Bluebird population.

The Millworks, Phase 1 of an affordable housing project owned and operated by Mercy Housing Northwest on Bellingham’s waterfront, has opened 83 units of workforce and family rental housing. The ...

High bacteria counts in stormwater are prompting concerns, as volunteer citizen scientists walk Anacortes and Bellingham shores to help track outfall water quality.

Have you seen a Grange hall recently? Some of them sit on out-of-the-way roads or alongside vegetable fields. Others are nested in suburban and even industrial surroundings, or along well-traveled ...

About 450,000 invasive barred owls could be shot to save an “iconic species in the Pacific Northwest” from extinction. In the woods at night, one might hear the hooting of an owl. On the West Coast, ...

In the face of drought, the West faces a growing water crisis — and one Whatcom city has an innovative plan to address it. Department of Ecology officials recently declared expanded drought conditions ...