12+ hour, 31+ min ago   (347+ words) Months ago, I made a request to the board of directors for Northwest Youth Services — the largest provider of housing and services for at-risk youths 13–24 in the region — that it release its internal investigation into disgraced former chief executive Jason…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (1092+ words) And even if it was, that didn’t seem to be an issue. “We’ve never really enforced people that go to Costco and buy a tub of ice cream and buy a tub of ghee or whatever — that’s always been popular,…...

5+ day, 13+ hour ago   (932+ words) Bellingham’s debate over development raises a larger political question: Who controls the story that data tell us? (CDN, Sept. 3, 2026) The report itself cautions that subsurface investigations reveal conditions only at the locations tested and that actual conditions can differ significantly....

6+ day, 13+ hour ago   (603+ words) Live music calendar: Sept. 11–20, 2026 Cascadia Daily News Live music calendar: Sept. 11–20, 2026 Jesse Stanton's weekly picks and other live shows in Whatcom County No Q&A content found. Littlefield Celtic Center, 1124 Cleveland Ave., Mount Vernon Through some strange currents of migration…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1551+ words) MONUMENT 47, Mount Baker Wilderness — David Whitehair concluded 141 consecutive days of hiking on Wednesday at a remote and rugged speck of Whatcom County, distinguished by a stainless-steel obelisk that marks the boundary between the United States and Canada. Whitehair, 41, let a…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (366+ words) Former City of Bellingham employees are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to take up their lawsuit against the city after they were fired in 2021 for refusing to receive vaccinations for COVID-19 despite a mandate. The 18 employees, including police officers, emergency medical…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (528+ words) For Jamie Wurtz, owner and operator of the Bellingham-based fishing vessel Paragon, when he goes to fish salmon off the coast of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska, he’s thinking about two things: fish prices and gas. It takes him nine…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (449+ words) Immigration detainments in Whatcom and Skagit counties spiked in June compared to the other months of 2026, according to the latest data compiled by a group of researchers at the University of California. Federal immigration agents detained at least 54 people in…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (581+ words) Jesse Stanton's music column, The Beat Goes On, appears monthly. Reach him at [email protected]; @JSBhamMusic. Check with individual venues to make sure events are still taking place as scheduled. Click here for Jesse's listing of live music events in Whatcom…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1045+ words) PORT RENFREW, British Columbia — The road to Big Lonely Doug is rutted and rugged. We inched along the unpaved logging route in the southwestern corner of Vancouver Island in search of a celebrity Douglas fir that has survived the felling…...