Bellingham News

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.

Two Canadian men have been charged with depositing very large, illegitimate IRS refund checks, including some at the Bellingham branch of Bank of America.

Bellingham Development Company M:KOV Development recently hired Earth-First Lawn Care as the Community Maintenance Consultant for The Reserve at Cordata.

A mass vaccination clinic for the H1N1 flu, or swine flu, has been set for Saturday, Nov.

Whatcom County voters will be making some big decisions Tuesday, Nov. 3, ones that could change local government policy.

Hundreds of Whatcom Middle School students who were burned out of their school will move to different schools this week.

For Bellingham resident Forrest Doan, glory was in his gut Saturday, Nov. 7. Doan, 35, and Maple Falls resident Rick Banel, 52, took the Burger Challenge at the new Anker Diner in Sumas Saturday afternoon.

Bellingham-based Logos Bible Software has announced the release of two products: Logos 4 and a free iPhone application.

The Erik Dyrland Insurance Agency will be accepting nonperishable food and toiletries for the Bellingham Food Bank from Monday, Nov.

Photo: Giancarlo Yerkes, a 30-year-old advertising employee, crosses a street in downtown Chicago while text-messaging with his cell phone.

A Bellingham woman who helped steal a van with two children inside in March has been sentenced to more than a year in state prison.

The original part of what is now Whatcom Middle School was built of brick and sandstone blocks in 1903.

City crews turned on a new traffic signal at East Chestnut Street and Railroad Avenue on Wednesday, Nov.

Local, state and federal agencies will have a place to gather officers and ideas for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics and beyond, at the new Olympics Coordination Center in north Bellingham.