Bellingham News

With the annual Bite of Skagit coming up Saturday, July 26, today's trio of recipes come from staff members at Northcoast Credit Union, which is hosting the annual event at Swinomish Casino in Anacortes.

A partnership between the city and private property owners will continue after one landowner dropped out of the effort to find a way to develop about two acres on the edge of downtown, by the waterfront.

Serving the people of Whatcom County is a an honor and a great challenge. Over the past four years we have put in place the foundations to do some great things locally and statewide.

Those who use James Street Road between north Bellingham and downtown have needed to stop and think - and sometimes turn around - ever since a section of the road was closed for construction earlier this month.

A Bellingham Police Department bomb squad responded at 10:50 a.m. Saturday, July 19, to the 800 block of 40th Street when an Mk 2 defensive grenade - the standard-issue in the U.S. military from World War II to the Vietnam War era - was found behind a cupboard in a garage, said Bellingham Police Lt.

A Bellingham Police Department bomb squad responded at 10:50 a.m. Saturday, July 19, to the 800 block of 40th Street when an Mk 2 defensive grenade - the standard-issue in the U.S. military from World War II to the Vietnam War era - was found behind a cupboard in a garage, said Bellingham Police Lt.

No one was seriously hurt in a four-vehicle crash that included a Bellingham school bus Monday afternoon, July 21, on Interstate 5 near the Meridian Street exit.

The City Council's Committee of the Whole this afternoon unanimously recommended to the full council a resolution to begin a 12-month pilot of public-access programming on the government television station.

A Republican organizer sent this email on Friday, July 18, inviting people to a fundaiser for state House candidate Luanne Van Werven.

The microphone worked only part of the time, and occasionally the gymnasium walls bounced the words like a volley of loose basketballs.

A motorist yields as two fawns cross Lake Louise Drive near Fremont Street in Bellingham on August 9,2004.

Bellingham resident Maria Dalzot, 26, took second overall at the NACAC Mountain Running Championships to help her team to a gold medal finish at Mount Chupinaya in Ajijic, Mexico, July, 20. Dalzot, who came in second to another member of team U.S.A., finished with a faster time than her own course record she set as the winner of the race in 2011.

The motorhome is parked at Thousand Trails RV Resort along the shore of Skagit Bay in LaConner, Washington.

The finalists will be interviewed starting at 6 p.m. during the board's July 28 meeting in the board room at the District Office, 1306 Dupont St. The board could appoint one of the finalists to the position after the interviews are complete.

The band Polecat plays at the Downtown Sounds Summer Concert on Bay Street on Wednesday, July 10, 2013 in Bellingham.

For the past four years, Republicans have held all three state seats in the district representing north Bellingham, rural Whatcom County and the small cities.

Janet Oakley of Bellingham wrote the first chaper of "Echoes of War: Mystery of the missing Confederate treasure in Whatcom County."

The downtown Community Solutions Workgroup convened in late 2013 by Mayor Kelli Linville recommended 14 projects to improve downtown.

In an effort to improve downtown and Maritime Heritage Park, Bellingham groups are trying to give people with mental illnesses and substance abuse issues better access to housing and health care.

More than two years after raising the concern, city officials still don't know whether an extra railroad track would be built along Boulevard Park and the waterfront to accommodate additional trains for a proposed coal terminal at Cherry Point.