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Ryan Smit is in his fourth season as artistic director of Bellingham Chamber Chorale, which performs its first concert of the season, “Heading East: Ceremony of Carols,” at 3 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 6, at First Congregational Church, 2401 Cornwall Ave.

Local and visiting pedestrians are in for a visual treat in the Lewistown Art Center’s Main Street display window. On exhibit through the holiday season are altar books created by Lewistown artist David W. Wharton. Two more books displayed in the LAC’s main gallery space bring the total to nine…

The past decade ushered in a boom in international-student education, as a growing number of college students from overseas came to American universities to study and earn degrees.

But just 150 international students go to Western Washington University as full-time…

The shellfish pathogen that hit California’s Channel Islands in the 1980s began to quickly kill one of the tideland’s most important animals — black abalone.

But what unnerved scientists was what they learned next: Whenever ocean waters grew warmer, the deadly…