Funding of Washington’s public schools is one of the tougher wrinkles House and Senate budget writers must iron out in the weeks ahead. Democrat-drafted proposals in the two chambers are demonstrably ...

WPW now has 200 active members and is highly selective. The self-funded organization has a gallery in the Columbia Tower in downtown Seattle, but it also hosts two juried exhibits in other locations ...

Scoring eight runs in the first inning and a near-perfect game on the mound led to Bellingham baseball defeating Nooksack Valley, 10-0, in five innings Tuesday, April 1 at Bellingham High School.

Sawyer Nichols grew up in Anacortes competing in basketball, lacrosse and tennis. He first played volleyball recreationally as a freshman in high school. Five years later, he is now one of the top ...

That’s the consensus after a three-hour meeting between Port of Bellingham Commission members and staff on Tuesday, April 1. The work group is part of a series of meetings commissioners are holding to ...

After abruptly pulling most trainsets from service on the Cascades route last week, Amtrak has begun bringing in replacement ...

Mount Vernon and Anacortes have an early matchup to remain atop of the Northwest Conference standings. The Bulldogs are coming off a runner-up finish in the 3A state tournament last year. After a slow ...

Over the last 30 years one of the very cool trends in the international music scene is the growing popularity of West African “desert blues”: music from the Sahel region that draws on some of the same ...

Joe Pug takes the standard Dylan-esque, guy-with-guitar formula and brings an interesting twist to the lyrics, with counterbalancing doses of humor and cynicism, some serious literary chops, and a ...

Northwest Youth Services abruptly closed its primary Skagit facility in early March due to unspecified safety and health ...

That’s why, in honor of National Library Giving Day on April 1, the Bellingham Public Library Board of Trustees and the ...

Skagit County law enforcement are looking for a missing 13-year-old girl who was last seen around 3 p.m. on Sunday, March 30 ...