Bellingham News

As a serious hockey player with the Bellingham Blazers, 20-year-old Bryce Kenning has taken some pretty hard hits.

A survivor of Washington's Interstate 5 bridge collapse says plunging off the highway was "like a roller coaster where you're not attached to the tracks." Bryce Kenning, of Mount Vernon, was on his way to a pick-up hockey game in Bellingham when the bridge seemed to explode in front of him in a cloud of dust.

The AAA auto club reports the average price of a gallon of gasoline in Washington is $4, heading into the Memorial Day weekend.

It happened about 7 p.m. Thursday on the four-lane Interstate 5 bridge between Burlington and Mount Vernon, and disrupted travel in both directions.

A Bellingham man faces 20 years in prison for a 34-hour crime spree that entailed an armed burglary, two kidnapping attempts, a carjacking and taking a hostage.

With individual images projected on a screen TESC President Dr. Thomas L. Purce begins the public reading by volunteer readers of 250 names of military personnel who died in the last 12 months in service as part of the Memorial Day remembrance,The Readers Project: Honoring the Fallen,Wednesday at The Evergreen State College.Organized by the ... (more)

"I'm not any kind of professional organizer," says anti-coal train activist Lynne Oulman, "but I just got so angry about what was about to happen here." In Lynne's case, "here" means Bellingham, Wash .

Fairhaven Festival organizers are willing to cede the title of "Eighth Leg of the Race" to the beer garden near Ski to Sea's finish line at Marine Park.

In reading the Everett Herald's April 28 article on coal trains, " Coal trains would worsen Marysville's traffic problem ," it occurred to me that Everett is in a position to eliminate all of the damage the trains will do to communities from Marysville to Cherry Point, and the city can make money doing it.

Last November, Trish Harding, the founder of Studio UFO in Bay Street Village, at Holly and Bay streets, presented an exhibit entitled "Granary Love-In," in which local artists showed their interpretations of the building on the former G-P mill site on the Bellingham waterfront.

New York's Central Park provides the fixings for much of her larder, which includes wines, pickles, jams and jellies made from flavourful weeds.

It is a warm afternoon in spring and Boulevard Park is full. Kids splash at the beach, couples stroll across the bridges and a group of runners zips along the waterfront.

Improvements to Washington state's rail system with the proposal to ship more coal to Asia may benefit Washington farmers, say local officials.

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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers must undertake a comprehensive, region-wide study of all possible impacts of three remaining proposals to export coal from Wyoming and Montana out of Northwest ports to China, public health and environmental groups said Wednesday in a petition filed with the Corps.

A Bellingham woman who was involved in a drug ring that distributed methamphetamine and heroin throughout Whatcom County was sentenced to nine years in prison Tuesday, May 21, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.

The City Council has approved Ram Construction Co.'s $1.14 million bid for construction of a roundabout at the snarl of asphalt where State, Forest and Wharf streets link up with the Boulevard.

The existing city fireworks ordinance, adopted in 2002 and amended in 2005, generally limits personal fireworks use in the city to Dec.

Investigators are still looking into what ignited a fire that started in bushes before spreading to an apartment building near Civic Field Sunday evening, May 19, according to the Bellingham fire marshal.

An armed robbery at a Bellingham coffee stand was thwarted late Friday night, May 17, when the lone barista on duty activated the stand's alarm, according to the Bellingham Police Department.