City of Bellingham moves to buy time until better technology is available for Post Point wastewater treatment plant.

The Northwest Clean Ports emissions inventory shows that big cargo vessels are the largest source of air pollution related to ...

This is the second installment of The Northern Light's investigation into the Port of Bellingham's contract procurement and ...

Jen Strongin stands on the edge of a dock at Friday Harbor Labs at around 9 p.m., lowering a light into murky black water.

The heightened interest in plumbing Mount Baker is part of a bigger rush. Spurred by increasing electricity demands from the ...

Vamos partners with schools to take kids aged 5 to 18 outdoors for climbing, snowboarding, biking, backpacking and other ...

Short-tailed shearwaters, a bird usually found far out in the open ocean, visited the Salish Sea in record numbers this fall.

The ESA’s 99% statistic works the same way. It eases our discomfort with extinction without addressing the forces causing it. Our civilization has built a moral comfort system around measurement — one ...

The Port of Bellingham is set to see new commissioners — and more districts — in 2026, along with the search for a new ...

Anacortes American founder Douglass Allmond, at right, and 1950s-60s publisher/photographer Wallie Funk seem to be heading out to cover news stories in these murals at the Anacortes American building ...

A new UW study found an unintended consequence of reducing air pollution is that clouds reflect less sunlight, accelerating ...

With one of the highest number of churches per capita in the nation, Lynden is widely considered the “bible belt” of Western Washington. Some say the 16,000-person town has around 42 churches, but ...