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Pat Lombard planned to retire at age 55.
A nurse at St. Joseph Medical Center, she arranged for private health insurance, which she figured would cost about $300 a month until she was eligible for Medicare. But before she told her employer of her pending retirement, she was notified that…

Christopher Wise, an English professor at Western Washington University, has been one of the organizers for the Bellingham community's recognition and numerous events about the forced removal of the Chinese from the Puget Sound region around 1885.

"Emerald Bay," a ballet…

Bellingham Mayor Dan Pike issued a formal apology Thursday to the Chinese community for the Chinese expulsion 125 years ago.

Pike says the apology helps people understand that things that were done by people and the government were wrong.

When Mayor Dan Pike issues a formal apology to the Chinese community this week at a unique gathering at the Whatcom Museum, it’ll be part of an ongoing effort to make sure an ugly part of Bellingham’s history—specifically, the brutal 1885 expulsion of Chinese citizens from the area—never repeats…

Mayor Dan Pike will issue a formal apology to the Chinese community on Thursday, May 26, for what happened 125 years ago, when Chinese residents were forced out of the area at the urging of civic leaders and the town newspaper.

The formal apology is among the activities on Thursday night…

Sonya Dunning was born and raised in Ellensburg. Now a graduate student at the University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho, she recently won a national essay contest for "for(e)closure." The nonfiction story was inspired by her work with foreclosed homes and the loss of her childhood home.…

It's Bellingham's version of "Romeo and Juliet."

"We wanted to do an original ballet," said the story's writer, Christopher Wise, an English professor at Western Washington University. "So we asked, why not do a ballet on our…