As the weather warms, mountain goats move to graze what’s available in the rugged, high-altitude terrain of the North Cascades. In the next few weeks, they will have their kids, and those who survey ...

Anacortes bans feeding deer, raccoons, pigeons, seagulls; San Juan County considering similar law. Life is precarious for wild animals living close to roads in Anacortes and on San Juan Island. Some ...

Alaska cruise ships eye new fueling model out of Port of Seattle. Early this month, a mobile floating gas station of sorts pulled up alongside the towering cruise ship Star Princess at Seattle’s Pier ...

The Bellingham Herald will see interruptions to its local coverage this week. Staff walked out Tuesday after over a year of negotiations with McClatchy Media, owner of five Pacific Northwest ...

The 37th annual Shakespeare festival returns to the Pacific Northwest in June. The 2026 Bard on the Beach Festival returns to ...

Data shows 23 possible hate crimes in Bellingham this year. The latest statewide hate crime data found roughly 500 hate crime incidents reported each year between 2019 and 2024. The state Attorney ...

How a local tragedy spawned a national public interest watchdog group. Remember this number: 3.3 million. That’s the total ...

In collaboration with Alchemy Art Center, a new ceramic tile mural is in the works for the Port of Friday Harbor. Maria ...

Jason Mark’s reporting on the Pipeline Safety Trust is a powerful reminder that meaningful reform often begins with local grief and civic resolve. Bellingham’s 1999 pipeline disaster was not just a ...

The northern spotted owl, Strix occidentalis caurina, is one of three spotted-owl subspecies. It lives in Washington, Oregon and southern British Columbia. The other two subspecies are Mexican and ...

Gaza has been a concentration camp for a minimum of 20 years. If the reader thinks the term “concentration camp” to describe Gaza is radical, please allow me point out that there are several ...