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National Fisherman will honor two Alaskans at the Pacific Marine Expo in Seattle this weekend.

Bill Webber, Jr., of Cordova, and Dan Falvey of Sitka will join San Francisco’s Larry Collins as the magazine’s 2011 “Highliners of the Year.”

The honor is not necessarily about amount of…

Recently at a birthday party, Island resident Julie Ogata Ciobanu was listening to her daughter talk to her friends.

“One girl said, “My brother has ADHD,” then another said, “I have dysgraphia and phonological awareness,” followed by my daughter Carys saying, “I…

Suburbia. Word of mouth. Support.

For local business owner Victoria Holsclaw, such contributions have added to the success of her Woodinville and Redmond Koko FitClubs. After only two years in the business world, Holsclaw understands and appreciates the collective…

In fall 2007, when Dan Pike was running against Dan McShane for the open mayoral seat, eastern and northern Bellingham liked Pike.
Not so much this time around. In the 2011 race, in which he ran for re-election against former Democratic state Rep. Kelli Linville, precincts in east and…

The Wenatchee Valley Business World’s “30 Under 35” list recently honored young community leaders. We tap their thoughts in this Sunday interview series.

Annie Larsen Schmidt, 30

Director of the Chumstick Wildfire Stewardship Coalition

Samir Vejo learned to walk, talk and play soccer as a toddler.
The first-year head coach of the Kelso girls soccer team followed his middle brother, Amir, "like a puppy," anywhere there was soccer to be played.
In their hometown of Trebinje, Bosnia, that meant everywhere.…

Mark Bergsma, who grew up on the shores of Lake Whatcom and has been a photographer in Bellingham for just over 30 years, is passionate about a new type of art - using high-tech tools such as composite imaging and color grading to enhance images for a variety of markets and for his new gallery…

Heather McCrea was looking through some of the recent donations to the Oak Harbor thrift store where she works when she picked up a book titled “The torch is passed… .”

As she looked through its pages, she found more than just a collection of photos and text surrounding the Kennedy…