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 ...

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

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

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

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

Trail walkers may have noticed new devices lining the Nooksack trails in Bellingham. The devices, which stand on poles and feature solar panels connected to gray power-boxes, are radio nodes that make ...

During warm summer evenings in front of Bellingham’s El Sueñito Brewing Company, it’s common to hear the crispness of a sonic boom. The source of the noise isn’t from a gunshot or jet breaking the ...

According to a recent Convention of Migratory Species Report, migratory freshwater fish populations have dropped 81% worldwide since 1970. While Northwest Washington species face many of the same ...

A new report argues cross-border waterways in the Columbia Basin need more coordinated governance; officials believe that work is already being done. The need for careful management of waterways to ...