Bellingham News

If you wondered if funneling most of North America's increasing coal exports through the Pacific Northwest might have some serious environmental consequences, you will have to wait awhile for answers to the big questions.

An Everett man and other investors have created the largest Bitcoin mine in North America, capable of 1,000 trillion calculations per second.

The state of Washington will pay $3 million to a woman who alleged Child Protective Services agents failed to protect her from her mother's abusive boyfriend in the mid-1990s, even after she gave birth at Deaconess Memorial Hospital in Spokane when she was 12 years old.

A jury found a Bellingham man guilty this week of leading police on a high-speed chase that ended in an armed standoff near the Whatcom County line.

Steve Keller serves lunch to Rochelle Wolber, left, and Johanna Krouzian at the Brandywine Kitchen in downtown Bellingham Tuesday March 11, 2014, during the Double Meal Deal to support the Lighthouse Mission.

Like many of life's greatest pleasures, the formula is simple: When at home on the weekend, my partner and I stop what we're doing late Saturday afternoon and take time out to enjoy a glass of wine.

St. Patrick's Day Parade grand marshal, Tammy Bennett, waves to the crowd Saturday afternoon, March 16, 2013 in Bellingham.

With the start of the MLS season also brings back the league website's Instant Replay feature with host Simon Borg .

Dr. Craig McAllister, a surgeon who is director of hip and knee replacements at EvergreenHealth, talks with patient Mary Carlson in the recovery room after she had minimally invasive knee replacement surgery.

The city is taking the first steps toward construction of a multimillion-dollar pre-treatment plant that will help prevent Lake Whatcom algae blooms from affecting the quality and quantity of the city's water supply.

A Bellingham man has been charged with five counts of first-degree child rape, suspected of sexually abusing five girls over the course of several years, according to charging documents filed in Whatcom County Superior Court.

A teenager accused of opening fire on a driver in the Sunnyland neighborhood has been arrested on suspicion of first-degree assault.

Maripat Donovan, the creator and star of the wildly successful "Late Nite Catechism" series, which has been touring the country for the last 20 years, is stepping out of her habit and into a brand new interactive comedy "Ask Mrs. Honey B., Certified Life Coach."

A train passes The Chrysalis Inn & Spa on the Bellingham waterfront, Friday, Jan. 10. Because the trains pass so close to many homes and businesses, Bellingham Mayor Kelli Linville is pushing for increased safety measures after a spate of freight train crashes that have resulted in huge fireballs from crude oil carried in rail cars.

The story starts and ends with Carl Fabiani, a former National Park Service employee who retired in 2010 after 45 years working at Mount Rainier.

That's up 9 cents in a week and 23 cents in a month. It's 6 cents higher than the national average.

WWII veteran Ray Manning of Bellingham is one of the few remaining veterans of the battles of Bougainville and Iwo Jima.

Writer and photographer Joe Meche will present "Caspian Terns in Puget Sound" during the March 20 meeting of the Tahoma Audubon Society.

Staff members at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington are enduring viewpoint-corrective training sessions in far-left political topics like 'heterosexual privilege,' 'gender privilege' and 'language privilege.'

Chelsey Baldwin and Deryk Cowden Chelsey Baldwin and Deryk Cowden were United in Marriage on Oct 26, 2013 at Bellingham Covenant Church with Grant Fishbook officiating.