Bellingham News

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.

Chris Augustine, left, talks to manager Erica Anderson about his lamps that sold at the new Fair Trade Furniture Consignment at Bakerview Square in Bellingham, March 6, 2014.

When Bellingham resident Julianna Guy learned she would be inducted into the YWCA Northwest Women's Hall of Fame, she didn't even know she had been nominated.

The head coach of a high school girls wrestling co-operative in Bellingham was arrested on suspicion of having sex with a 17-year-old female student and booked into Whatcom County Jail Friday, March 7, according to police.

The head coach of a high school girls wrestling co-operative in Bellingham was arrested on suspicion of having sex with a 17-year-old female student and booked into Whatcom County Jail Friday, March 7, according to police.

British Columbia poet Renée Sarojini Saklikar explores the nature of personal loss in the midst of public trauma, in a free talk at 4 p.m. Monday, March 10, 2014 at Western Washington University Library's Presentation Room.

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.

If Whatcom's proposed coal port is approved, as many as 18 more trains per day would pass through Bellingham, all to feed the coal-fired power plants of Asia.

The Pipia sisters, Sophie and Phina, are about to have juggling tossed into their musical mix.