Better known as the Columbus Day Storm or “The Big Blow,” this event formed from the remnants of a Pacific typhoon to become a devastating extratropical cyclone.
Barron Home Services' historic Pay Back Program is back—and now extended by popular demand until February 28, 2026.
Women played a key role on the American homefront during World War I. In Whatcom County, the “Minute Women” were among the ...
At Whatcom County’s southeasternmost corner, bordering Skagit and Okanagan Counties, stand our county’s only two company towns: Newhalem and Diablo. Seattle City Light, a citizen-owned public utility, ...
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Although only a 30-mile, 40-minute drive from Bellingham, a trip to Silver Lake Park feels like leaving on vacation. Its campground roads weave between trees and mountain faces, framing a tranquil ...
College town. County seat. Natural wonderland. These are just a few descriptors that set Bellingham’s identity apart. Named for its bay, which George Vancouver dubbed after Sir William Bellingham in ...
On Bellingham’s Telegraph Road, just east of Bellis Fair Mall, a weathered wooden signpost clashes with the urban sprawl. Titled “Old Telegraph Road,” the sign describes how a telegraph line ran along ...
Harold Niven has lived across the street from the FireHouse Arts and Events Center for almost 20 years. Long enough, that is to say, to have watched it transform from a working fire station to the ...
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 ...
When I first saw the “Cof&” sign above the small business on a side street in Sunnyland, it took me a moment to put together what, exactly, was being advertised. It wasn’t until I thought about the ...
In the Pacific Northwest and elsewhere, history lives through both textbook and novel means. That’s what award-winning Bellingham author Janet Oakley strives to communicate. After earning a history ...
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