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Meet Chan Samuth, owner of Bellingham’s LaFeen’s and learn how the humble, beloved doughnut shop has held plain and glazed through thick and thin.

WhatcomTalk Rena Priest, Washington’s New Poet Laureate, Calls Bellingham Home For the next two years, our Washington State Poet Laureate promises to reach out to residents, and bring poetry into the natural world. Photo courtesy Rena Priest Rena Priest, Washington’s New Poet Laureate, Calls Bellingham Home A member of the Lhaq’temish (Lummi) Nation and an American Book Award winner, Priest is the first Native American poet to serve as our state's poet laureate Bellingham resident Rena Priest made a deal with herself: she would apply for two positions that help her foll...

When All Day Bellingham Parks and Recreation is holding a virtual “Runnin’ O’ the Green” 5K between March 13th-21st. Sign up to walk or run any of a variety of 5K routes through downtown Bellingham, Squalicum Creek Park, and Whatcom Falls–customize your own route! Everyone who registers is eligible to win prizes through submitting results or tagging images with #bellinghamparks or #bellinghamparksrog on social media. Fees are $5 for youth 12 and under, $25 general (kids in strollers are free). Recent Headlines

Best Places to Live on the West Coast By Meagan Drillinger, Stacker News On 1/11/21 at 8:00 PM EST For centuries, Americans and people from all over the world have heeded Horace Greeley's advice to "go west." The West Coast of the United States has been calling settlers ever since the early 1800s. From the Oregon Trail to the Gold Rush to 1967's Summer of Love, there is something magnetic about the Pacific Coast of the United States that calls to the hearts of those looking to start anew. And who could blame them? From the sun-drenched beaches of Southern California to the brilliant minds ...

Another chapter closes in Bellingham's deadly Whatcom Falls Park pipeline disaster The Bellingham Herald 12/10/2020 Robert Mittendorf, The Bellingham Herald (Bellingham, Wash.) Bellingham City Council members closed the Olympic Pipeline Incident Fund, one of several established in the wake of the deadly June 1999 explosion and fire in Whatcom Falls Park. It ended without ceremony or comment on a unanimous council vote Monday, Dec. 7, except to note that all funds have been spent on Whatcom Creek restoration and monitoring. A total of five funds were created with settlement m...