Bellingham News

Tom Allen, a sales manager at Bellingham's Blackburn Office Equipment, is pictured in this undated photo leaning back in a new OM5 Series chair from Office Master on a boat in Lake Whatcom.

A hearing-aid provider in Whatcom County operated for at least five years without a license and in some cases failed to provide hearing aids that patients had already purchased, according to state Department of Health documents.

BELLINGHAM, Whatcom County - The electric highway in Washington will get a little longer tomorrow when the ribbons are cut on three new stations along Interstate 5 in Skagit and Whatcom counties.

Welcome! " What's Happenin'?" is a casual community diary where we hang out and talk about the goings on here and everywhere.

Artist Graham Schodda will again participate in the Appliance Depot’s annual Appliance Art Revival and Derby on June 2. The derby race runs 5-6:30 p.m. on Maple Street from State Street to Cornwall Avenue.

It was refreshing to find the account of a great violinist's career in The Bellingham Herald .

Emily O'Connor, new director of Lydia Place, prepares donated items for their auction on Thursday May 17, 2012 in Bellingham.

When the walls shrink and the panic sets in, Army Specialist Mike Ballard reaches for his service dog, Apollo, to help him get through his post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms.

On the table are proposals to capitalize on Asia's thirst for cheap energy by building a half-dozen terminals in Washington and Oregon that would export coal from the Rockies.

Ron Paul supporters filed en masse to run for Republican Party precinct committee officers, grass-roots elected seats that will be on this year's primary election ballot.

The derby gives kids between the ages of 2 and12 the chance to catch trout right off the dock at Steel Lake.

THE charter schools ballot initiative proposed for the November election was born out of parental frustration with the Legislature's failure to move on a key education reform.

Pullman fire investigators are calling suspicious a fire that destroyed a building on the Washington State University campus in Pullman early Saturday.

The Bellingham High School Alumni marching band plans on going out on a high note Saturday, May 26, in the Ski to Sea Grand Parade.

Last year Dunford's personal best was 13 feet, and he didn't earn a place at state.

There might not be an event in Whatcom County that's more thoroughly planned than Ski to Sea.

With the Canadian dollar at par with its U.S. counterpart, Canadians are heading south to shop in places such as the Bellis Fair Mall in Bellingham, Wash.

If you want to live like a cave man - Just do it... But not me just - Leave me out of... COMMUNITIES across our state are looking at train tracks as a threat to the environment as an ever-growing number of open-bed coal cars pass by.

Manager Steve Lawrenson fronts bottles at the Blaine Liquor Outlet in Blaine, May 15, 2012.

The AAA auto club reports drivers hitting the road for the Memorial Day weekend will find gasoline prices in Washington averaging $4.24 a gallon.