But the Threshold Singers have no ties to organized religion. Rather, their sole purpose is to offer distraction, comfort and company to those at life’s end. Some volunteers have described the ...

Posting instead on Bluesky, which does maintain relatively effective community standards, our number of followers has more than quadrupled. Both of those decisions to stop playing a losing game on out ...

Call for applications for the Skagit County Climate Impact Advisory Committee. Deadline: 4:30 p.m. on Jan. 30 The committee will provide recommendations to the Skagit County Board of Commissioners on ...

The leadership at Mt. Baker Ski Area announced on Thursday that this year’s Legendary Banked Slalom, the ski area’s world-famous snowboard race, will not be happening because of low snow and poor ...

Floods have long been a fact of life for tribes in Whatcom and Skagit counties, shaping ancient stories and influencing the way they lived along rivers. But December’s flooding was a destructive ...

Kari Mar is the editor and publisher of La Conner Community News, a nonprofit publication she helped get off the ground last year after the town’s weekly paper shut down.

The man accused of shooting two National Guard members in November 2025 in Washington, D.C., was pepper-sprayed and robbed in downtown Bellingham months before purchasing the firearm used in the fatal ...

Jodi Joyce, the chief executive officer of the community health center Unity Care NW, will retire this year. The federally qualified health center (FQHC) will lead a search in the coming months for ...

Nooksack Valley drained nine 3-pointers to stave off Mount Baker, 73-54, in a physical rivalry game during Northwest Conference action Wednesday, Jan. 21 at Mount Baker High. “We did what we needed to ...

During a public hearing Jan. 20, Sen. Yasmin Trudeau, D-Tacoma, cited a recent University of Washington report that revealed federal immigration authorities were accessing data obtained by automated ...

Kuntz and Co.’s dance-themed film series, Documenting Grace, continues on Feb. 1 with a film about “the breakdancing legend known as Bboy Wicket” (aka Gabriel Jaochico). Per its description, the film ...