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Coast|Sperry Van Ness of Everett announced that Zach Schwarzmiller has joined the firm as an advisor. He will specialize in working with buyers and sellers of apartment properties under 25 units in size in south Snohomish County.

Alderbrook Resort on Hood Canal offers Valentine's Day packages that include dinner and spa treatments. One of Alderbrook's Valentine specials includes an aromatherapy bath.

The Semiahmoo Lighthouse was an attractive, Victorian-style lighthouse perched on a platform in Semi

Bellingham timber framer Jackson DuBois couldn't resist the opportunity to work six days a week

WASHINGTON – Back in the 1980s, when conservation advocates were trying to stop logging in old-growth forests in the Pacific Northwest, they relied on a 1982 regulation that required the National Forest Service to protect wildlife such as the spotted owl throughout its range. They won, and a new Northwest forest plan in 1990 greatly reduced logging in the region’s old-growth forests on federal ...

WASHINGTON -- Back in the 1980s, when conservation advocates were trying to stop logging in old-growth forests in the Pacific Northwest, they relied on a 1982 regulation that required the National Forest Service to protect wildlife such as the spotted owl throughout its range.

DOUBLE BLUFF — Down a country lane on a sunny, cold February morning near Useless Bay, a gorgeous gleaming ice cream machine is churning away. Florence Hecker has her plastic bouffant cap on and bounces from task to task in the small Whidbey Island Ice Cream plant she runs with her co-owner husband Ron Hecker. Her son-in-law, Chris Johnston, whom she calls a “jack-of-all-trades plant manager ...

The Falcon grapplers are rolling and shooting at just the right time. South Whidbey’s wrestling team won its second and third consecutive dual meets on Tuesday against Darrington and host-school Bellevue Christian.

The latest documents filed in the Homestead Northwest bankruptcy case indicate that little, if any, money will be available from the failed real estate development firm to pay investors and other creditors.

BELLINGHAM - Since grade school, Mount Baker wrestler Alec Postlewait has worked every summer to imp

BELLINGHAM - Stefawn Perrin never even made it into the locker room to change out of her black road

At the beginning of the wrestling season, Mount Baker girls' wrestler Lacy Cannon knew the Moun

Some extra film study paid off nicely for the Whatcom Community College men's basketball team,

The Whatcom Community College women's basketball team had one of its better games of the year,

Almost since the day Seattle was robbed of its NBA team, a group of well-intentioned, well-heeled, basketball-savvy hoopaholics quietly has been working with both local government and league officials, attempting to get an arena built and a team returned to this city.

Before last year Squalicum gymnast Kylie Garrison had never competed in gymnastics before, but based

Though he's qualified for the Class 2A State Boys' Swimming Championships in the 200 indiv

The 9th Annual Roche Harbor Salmon Classic Invitational came to end on Saturday for the 85 boats with 239 anglers trying their luck to catch biggest salmon.

Jobi Wall and David Downs combined for 46 points Saturday — 33 coming via three-pointers — as the Seattle Pacific men shot down Alaska Fairbanks 79-53 in a Great Northwest Athletic Conference basketball game at the Patty Center.

Early 2012 salmon, steelhead and sturgeon fishing seasons are now set for the lower Columbia River,

Sturgeon and salmon angler bent on visiting the lower Columbia River this spring and summer will hav

LYNDEN - During Evan Miller's 30-minute breaks at his fast food job, he squeezes in some practi

"The people of this state do not yield their sovereignty to the agencies that serve them. The people, in delegating authority, do not give their public servants the right to decide what is good for the people to know and what is not good for them to know."

Selective logging at Trillium Community Forest will continue through the end of February, officials with the Whidbey Camano Land Trust announced this week.

A Whatcom County woman who impersonated her dead mother in order to receive her mother's pension benefits has been sentenced to four years in prison.

BELLINGHAM — Mount Vernon estate lawyer Rosemary Kamb pleaded not guilty to two counts of first-degree theft Friday in Whatcom County Superior Court.

The hike to Fragrance Lake, south of Bellingham, is moderately strenuous but generally snow-free this time of year. The 5.5 mile trail is well-used and is part of Larrabee State Park, which has 15 miles of trails.

Residents of Spokane County are getting the hang of recycling. According to the Spokane Regional Solid Waste System and the Washington state Department of Ecology, the county recycled 331,793 tons of various materials in 2010. That’s 51 percent of the 646,149 tons of municipal waste that was generated in 2010. “Spokane County is recycling at a higher rate than the state average,” said Suzanne ...

Olympia downtown merchants have an ally in city code enforcement officer Ruthie Snyder. Come June, make that “had” an ally. That’s when Snyder, 67, plans to retire after spending the past three years as a key liaison between City Hall and the downtown business community. In recognition of all she does on behalf of downtown businesses, Snyder last week was named the Olympia Downtown Association’s ...

Marcus Reynolds had 15 points and eight rebounds to help the Bellingham boys' basketball team j