In the early 20th century, Mary Davenport Engberg wanted to make her hometown a better place through music. By creating and conducting the Bellingham Symphony Orchestra, she also broke new ground for ...

East of Bellingham, the tiny community of Van Zandt has completed a goal to restore the 1927 schoolhouse serving as their ...

Whether you’re at a school assembly or a sporting event, nothing summons some extra team spirit quite like a mascot. Bellingham schools and sports teams have had an eclectic variety of costumed ...

While lighthouses have served as critical navigation beacons for hundreds of years, they’ve also long captured the imagination of artists, poets, photographers, and filmmakers for both their beauty ...

Ghost towns have long bewitched thrill-seekers. Monuments to timeless yet transitory industries of mining, logging, and fishing, Washington’s own ghost towns communicate history beyond words—and ...

“Food deserts” are defined as urban areas that lack access to affordable or healthy foods, contributing to the food insecurity that afflicts tens of millions of Americans. In Bellingham, Birchwood ...

Today, Bellingham’s PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center is a 253-bed hospital offering comprehensive regional healthcare and employing more than 2,500 people. But more than 120 years ago, the ...

As you drive north on Boulevard from Fairhaven to Bellingham, the road passes a roundabout and leads up a gentle hill. Here, it becomes North Forest Street and curves along the base of a retaining ...

With so many people throughout our community in need of help, it’s encouraging to see organizations working to get them in touch with people offering exactly that. Whatcom County’s Mobile Crisis ...

Bellingham has a rich Scottish heritage. In 1904 the city welcomed a noted band of Scottish musicians, the world-famous Canadian “Kilties.” Scottish immigrants and their descendants formed ...

Only a few of the buildings in downtown Bellingham still bear historic business’ names. However, as National Register of Historic Places nominations show, most buildings have proper names waiting to ...

Purportedly born at Bellingham's Whatcom Humane Society, Jed the wolfdog first appeared on-screen in John Carpenter's c1982 sci-fi horror film "The Thing" But in real life, the cross-bred canine was ...