As the previous WhatcomTalk article on nostalgic landmarks demonstrates, older generations have preserved the memory of local ...

From carriage rides to tree lighting, luminous walks through the forest, and more, check out a preview of some fantastical ...

When Rika Wong was a child, her grandmother would often babysit her and her younger sibling. Wong’s fondest memories of those times, she says, ...

If you’d told Michelle McCarthy in January 2020 what she’d be doing now, she probably wouldn’t have believed you. At that time, the Whatcom County native and Lynden High School graduate was living in ...

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 ...

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 ...

The sign reading “Gold Mine Trail” could not look more out of place than beside a barbed-wire pasture fence and unassuming narrow trailhead just outside Nooksack. But this trail on Sumas Mountain ...

When The Way Station opened in November 2024, it aimed to meet a basic but urgent need in Whatcom County: access to hygiene services, health care, and medical respite for people experiencing ...

Bellingham offers pleasant sights and sounds to all who have ever called the city of subdued excitement home. This has long interested Seattle artist Ryan Haight, whose Instagram @My_Art_Bytes depicts ...

As you drive north on Boulevard from Fairhaven to Bellingham, the road passes a roundabout and leads up a gentle hill. Here, it becomes North Forest Street and curves along the base of a retaining ...

While lighthouses have served as critical navigation beacons for hundreds of years, they’ve also long captured the imagination of artists, poets, photographers, and filmmakers for both their beauty ...

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 ...