Bellingham News

Mary Jo Case of Bellingham, at left, and Joan "Casey" Firra, now of Dallas, visited Nooksack Falls on Oct.

City planners will give a presentation Thursday, Nov. 12, on a project to list three areas of Bellingham as national historic districts.

Bellingham-based Gone Diving has been awarded a contract to teach scuba for Western Washington University students, staff and faculty.

Highway crews will replace two miles of cable median barrier along Interstate 5 through Bellingham to make it more effective, according to the state Department of Transportation.

A man was arrested Friday, Nov. 13, on suspicion of shoplifting a mechanical pencil from the downtown Bellingham Rite Aid - even though he had $600 cash in his possession.

City leaders approved a plan that aims to usher in redevelopment of a section of Samish Way, turning it into a mixed-use, walkable urban village.

Many local bicycle shops are offering discounts on bicycle lights during November to help support the "See and Be Seen" safety campaign.

City leaders approved spending $3.3 million in property tax revenues to buy 20 acres in north Bellingham, land that eventually will become a community park.

Soldiers' Angels, an international volunteer support organization, has grown to more than 200,000 members in only six years.

UPDATED 11 A.M.: BELLINGHAM - A series of crashes on Interstate 5 starting shortly before 10 a.m. Friday, Nov.

Matrix Service Inc. recently reached a milestone in job safety for its work at the Shell Puget Sound Refinery in Anacortes.

Strangers passed a box of tissues down Main Street in Ferndale Thursday, Nov. 12, as throngs of supporters awaited the motorcade carrying the body of Spc.

A week after a fire burned their school, students from Whatcom Middle School are heading back to classes - at three different spots.

The long-awaited opening of Whatcom Museum's Lightcatcher Building, at 250 Flora St.

A longtime Bellingham business will soon move into a bigger, busier space. Lehmann's Maytag Home Appliance Center , which has been in business for 80 years, is planning to move into the former United Auto Electric building at 2001 James St., near Hardware Sales.

Bellingham's Classique Complexions, a European-style facial salon, will be celebrating its 20-year anniversary with an open house Friday, Nov.

A month-long Bellingham police investigation has resulted in the arrest of several people alleged to be street-level drug dealers who worked mostly in downtown.

Horizon Bank has now fallen into the "critically undercapitalized" category in the view of federal regulators, further restricting what the bank can do and putting its future in doubt.

City Council members are scheduled Monday, Nov. 9, to vote on a 1 percent property tax increase proposed by Mayor Dan Pike.

Interfaith Coalition of Whatcom County is looking for volunteers to help staff the shelters it opens to the homeless during severe weather.