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The Downtown Bellingham Partnership held a meeting on Wednesday night to discuss how to connect Western Washington University and downtown Bellingham.
A small group of local business owners and individuals gathered together on the top floor of the Leopold Retirement Residence on Wednesday…

A number of Indie rockers, Oscar winning filmmakers, CEOs, news anchors and word game creators all have one thing in common. They once called Bellingham, and Western, home.

These alumni are just a few of the many people Western has delivered into the world of fame, fortune and recognition…

“Here’s the bill for Western,” I told my husband this summer, waving a piece of paper in the air. “Tuition and fees are going to be $8,965.”

“Per quarter?” he asked.

“No! We’re in the state school system now. That’s for a whole year.”

I’ve been covering higher education in…

More than 4,000 Western Washington University students will return to campus to move into dorms and apartments Friday, Sept. 19 through Sunday, Sept. 21.

Area stores likely will be busy with back-to-school shoppers over the weekend.

A marine invertebrate expert will kick off the 2014-15 Discovery Speaker Series with a program Thursday on sea star wasting disease.

Presented by the South Sound Estuary Association, the free six-part series brings experts to the South Sound to talk about issues…

When Mary Sadler retired 19 years ago, she found life without her job much more subdued than she expected. The Whatcom County resident, now in her 70s, had taken noncredit evening classes for fun while she was employed, so continuing in that vein seemed like a good idea.
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Whatcom County’s penchant for making things continues to grow substantially, according to a new federal report.

This area’s gross domestic product grew 8.6 percent in 2013 compared to the previous year, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.…