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Receive FREE access by logging in to or creating your Spokesman.com account. The first of two convoys from the Washington National Guard's Spokane-based 1041st Transportation Company rolled into Canada over the weekend for an international training exercise designed to help improve overall North American military readiness.

People can view the artwork of 22 artists during this year's Lummi Island Artists' Studio Tour, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, May 25-26. During the free tour, visitors can drive or bike around the island to open studios, where they can see paintings, drawings, sculpture, pottery, photography, woodwork, jewelry, fiber arts and more.

At 3 p.m. Wednesday, May 22, Katie Bechkowiak will open Vinostrology Wine Lounge & Merchant at 120 W. Holly St., in the former Bandito's Burritos space.

Joshua Mayers joined The Seattle Times as a part-time news assistant in 2005 and took over the Sounders FC beat before the 2010 season.

Birch Equipment was recently honored as a 20-year Arthritis Foundation Community Partner for its involvement as a Jingle Bell Run sponsor, participating in the annual run with a Birch Equipment Team and being part of the foundation's golf tournament.

A pilot is lucky to be alive after his plane crashed nose-first just short of the runway at Lynden's airport.

BY JEREMY PAWLOSKI Staff writer Police arrested a Bellingham man Wednesday, after he wrote letters to The Olympian detailing threats to kill Governor Jay Inslee, Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and President Barack Obama, court papers state.

Glacier Creek Road has been closed to vehicle traffic at Thompson Creek Bridge because of a washout - about seven miles from the start of the heavily used Heliotrope Ridge Trail.

Prospects for a central waterfront renaissance should be clear by mid-July, when the Port of Bellingham expects to receive serious proposals from developers interested in a 10.8-acre portion of the site in and around the Granary building next to Whatcom Waterway.

A Western Washington University teaching assistant shot a Nevada Street resident three times - once in the stomach and once in each leg - after the victim confronted him for "messing with" a parked car, according to charging documents filed Wednesday, May 15.

Renata Kowalczyk, a Bellingham business consultant, has filed her candidacy for the 1st District seat on the Port of Bellingham Commission.

This rendering of a possible Costco across from the Bakerview Fred Meyer in Bellingham was part of a pre-application packet the company submitted this spring to the city of Bellingham.

Businessman Dan Robbins has announced he will seek election to the 1st District Port of Bellingham Commission seat being vacated by Scott Walker.

A former Bellingham physician will be able to continue practicing after admitting to state officials that he gave five patients human growth hormone without medical justification.

A suspected drunken driver faces four counts of vehicular assault for slamming his car into a tree on Squalicum Way, sending two young children and two women to the emergency room.

Three people attacked a bicyclist late Monday, May 13, on Virginia Street, possibly because he owed them money for drugs, according to Bellingham police.

The Red Raiders got their offense going early, scoring two runs in the first inning off a two-RBI hit by Vanja Flones.

The Chuckanut Bay under-15 and under-19 high school boys' rugby teams will be competing at the 2013 Washington State Rugby Championships at the Bellingham Polo Grounds on Sunday, May 19.

A Western Washington University teaching assistant is accused of shooting another man in Bellingham.

But despite the nice, and usually drier, change of scenery, the six hour-plus drive can be a sticking point.