AI usage, pay raises included in new contract Skagit County journalists voted unanimously on Sept. 4 to ratify a new two-year ...

When Terhi Miikki-Broersma founded the Lynden Music Festival in 2009 as a self-described “newbie,” it was simply because there was no music festival in town. This year’s Lynden Music Festival runs Oct ...

Petition filed to reinstate spring bear hunt after commission audit  The fall black bear hunting season is well underway in ...

From classic country standards to old-school revivals, musicians across the North Sound region carry Parton’s sound to a new ...

San Juan County council prepares for 2027 budget approval  At a meeting last week, Councilmember Kari McVeigh said San Juan ...

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Events spanning several years converged when a leak spilling more than a quarter million gallons of gasoline and resulting explosion and fire wreaked disaster along Whatcom Creek. It was the beginning ...

With the commercial salmon season coming to an end, 2024 is shaping up to be a lean year for commercial salmon fishers up and down the West Coast. That’s largely because prices for salmon that fishers ...

This summer, two teenagers sat on a dock near Campbell River in British Columbia when — according to them — a serpent with a three-foot-long head and fangs snatched a sea bird from beneath and dragged ...