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Cascade Pass Trail is one of the most popular North Cascades hikes for a reason: the views are unbeatable.
Brave the crowds for a show-stopping view of the North Cascades | Cascadia Daily News
Exploring the outdoors in Whatcom, Skagit, San Juan and beyond
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From Moo-Wiches to music and carnival rides, here's what you need to know ahead of fair season in Whatcom and Skagit counties.
2026 guide to the Northwest Washington and Skagit County fairs | Cascadia Daily News
Carnival rides, live music, food and farm animals at Lynden and Mount Vernon fairs
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Only want to see how many votes candidates got in Skagit County in tonight's primary election? Cascadia Daily News assembled preliminary results in this table.
Skagit County preliminary primary election results 2026 | Cascadia Daily News
Results will be certified Aug. 18
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Only want to see how many votes candidates got in Whatcom County in tonight's primary election? Cascadia Daily News assembled preliminary results in this table.
Whatcom County preliminary primary election results 2026 | Cascadia Daily News
Results will be certified Aug. 18
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It’s primary Election Day, with local voters choosing which candidates should advance in port, county, state and federal races. Check back here for preliminary results in Whatcom and Skagit counties, updated starting after 8 p.m. as the numbers roll in.
Primary election 2026 updates for Whatcom, Skagit counties | Cascadia Daily News
Check back after 8 p.m. to see which candidates for port, state, county races likely to move on; plus levy results
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An air quality alert is now in effect for Whatcom and Skagit counties, with the worst air conditions likely in the eastern parts of both counties
Air quality alert in effect for Whatcom, Skagit counties | Cascadia Daily News
Heat advisory starts 10 a.m. Wednesday
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Bellingham is working on a slew of legislation that's supposed to make housing easier to build and more affordable. Strategies being weighed include fewer regulations for low-income housing, allowing tiny homes on wheels citywide, and eliminating parking minimums for good.
What legislative levers can Bellingham pull for more housing amid rapid growth? | Cascadia Daily News
Council considers strategies: tiny homes on wheels, low-income incentives, no parking minimums
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Music contributor Jesse Stanton went to Sofar Sounds, which organizes musical experiences in unusual venues across the globe (and now, in Bellingham). Would he go again?
Sofar Sounds is bringing secret concerts to Bellingham. Is serendipity worth a ticket? | Cascadia Daily News
Plus summer festivals and other music news
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After dealing with nagging injuries and health concerns, Jennifer Deshaies and Grant Dalgliesh decided to try powerlifting to boost their lifestyles. Since then, they have also set national and state records in numerous events.
Middle-aged couple uses powerlifting as a way to boost their lifestyle | Cascadia Daily News
Jennifer Deshaies and Grant Dalgliesh have set state and national records in the Master’s 50–54 division
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"Alexander," a Lynden business owner, must be released from ICE detention within 24 hours, per a judge's order on Monday, Aug. 3. The order came after a tumultuous weekend where ICE transferred Alexander to a facility in Louisiana.
Federal court orders release of Whatcom County man from ICE detention | Cascadia Daily News
Alexander, a business owner in Lynden, has been in detention out of state since March
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A former Bellingham Technical College student is accusing the college of negligence after she experienced ‘catastrophic burns’ while in a welding class in 2023.
Former student sues Bellingham Technical College after she was burned in welding class | Cascadia Daily News
Student suffered 'severe and catastrophic burns'; lawsuit alleges negligence
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Hear the sounds of barking coming from a storefront in downtown Bellingham? It might be the dog lounge, aptly named Are You My Human? The rescue model helps dogs socialize — both with other dogs and potential adopters.
What's the Deal With: The 'dog lounge' on Cornwall Avenue? | Cascadia Daily News
The model allows dogs to get more social time, and potential adopters to see their 'real personality'
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CDN outdoors writer Kayla Heidenreich learns the path is the goal during the 15-mile Juneau Ridge Race in the Alaskan mountains.
With 5,000 feet of elevation gain in 15 miles, Alaskan race is about journey, not finish line | Cascadia Daily News
Kayla Heidenreich tackles her newest challenge: the Juneau Ridge Race
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Larry McCarter, a neighbor of Bellingham's Post Point Resource Recovery Plant who has worked in solid waste permitting, says in this CDN guest commentary that the city's best course is to landfill sewage sludge until it has a long-term solution, rather than continue incinerating it.
Bellingham's sewage incineration status quo is spreading PFAS and burning money | Cascadia Daily News
The science on PFAS, also known as "forever chemicals," is settled enough that the City of Bellingham already acted on it. A few years ago the cit ...
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The Border 2 Fire and Luna Fire in the North Cascades grew this weekend to 5,028 acres and 950 acres, respectively, increasing closures in the Ross Lake area. The wildfires are two of many in WA that led Gov. Ferguson to declare a statewide wildfire emergency that includes a burn ban until Sept. 30.
North Cascades wildfires grow again as WA enters statewide burn ban | Cascadia Daily News
Border 2 and Luna fires expected to worsen with this week's dry conditions
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In an era of natural wellness, these gas station products with botanical branding and candy-like flavors have flourished. They've also increasingly caused addictions, spurred a patchwork of policies and may soon be federally regulated.
Addictive, opioid-like gas station products are alarming clinicians, lawmakers | Cascadia Daily News
Bellingham clinicians increasingly seeing patients addicted to unregulated kratom, 7-OH
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Rep. Rick Larsen, spent the first day of his Congressional August recess meeting with ICE at a processing facility Ferndale trying to get answers about what happens to immigrants detained there.
Rep. Rick Larsen visits Ferndale ICE processing facility Friday on fact-finding mission | Cascadia Daily News
The 30-minute tour provided more questions than answers.
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Birch Bay's sandy shores offer all that's needed to build a sand sculpture: sand, shells, seaweed and stones. Scores of people supplied the imagination to sculpt figures and a menagerie of animals, including octopi, dogs, a sloth and — surprise — Jimothy.
Gallery: Sand, surf, shells come together for Birch Bay sculpture competition | Cascadia Daily News
The 43rd annual Birch Bay Sand Sculpture Competition brought scores of creative beach artists to the northwest Whatcom County community on Saturday, Aug. 1, ...
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State Route 9 north of Sedro-Woolley near Kalloch Road will be reduced to a single lane for 42 days starting Monday for fish-passage construction work.
State Route 9 near Sedro-Woolley to be reduced to one lane for 42 days | Cascadia Daily News
Work begins Aug. 3 to remove a culvert and install a fish-passable structure on Hansen Creek
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Customers can expect to pay big-box grocery store prices for local beef at this Nooksack farm (and enjoy a grass-fed burger during their visit).
Review: Nooksack Dairy & Deli an affordable way to eat local | Cascadia Daily News
Grass-fed burgers and affordable local beef in a former antique store
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Two Blaine families filed federal lawsuits against the Blaine School District after their daughters were sexually assaulted by the same male student while on school grounds.
Blaine School District faces two federal lawsuits over handling of sexual assaults | Cascadia Daily News
Families accuse district of negligence after Blaine student allegedly assaulted two peers
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Gretchen Kammerzell put her life on pause for the last six months as she studied for the Washington state bar exam. Now she'll have to wait in limbo even longer after the exam was canceled earlier this week due to technology issues.
Aspiring Bellingham lawyer waits in limbo after state bar exam canceled in WA | Cascadia Daily News
Gretchen Kammerzell is one of 700 whose test was canceled due to tech failure
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Kacie Cleveland, the owner of Driven Fitness in Bellingham, says she's "really good at the sports no one else does." It's hard to argue with her on that point. She holds world records for inline skating across the U.S. and for stair climbing.
Kacie Cleveland: Personal trainer and professional athlete | Cascadia Daily News
CDN's weekly community profile
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Scientists, tribal members and nonprofit leaders briefed U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen on how they’ve put federal dollars to work restoring Washington’s native shellfish and monitoring bull kelp.
In Skagit County, federal dollars are helping restore bull kelp, native shellfish | Cascadia Daily News
ANACORTES — On a windy Tuesday, outside a garage filled with tanks of pinto abalone the size of fingernails and small stones, U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen prepared ...
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This month's letter writer suspects a friend might be developing less-than-platonic feelings. Should she draw a boundary, or have romance novels skewed her judgment?
Ask Cocoa: How do I handle a friend's not-quite-platonic advances? | Cascadia Daily News
CDN's monthly advice column
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For four months, a Lynden family has been in limbo. That's how long it's been since ICE agents detained Alexander on a trip to Colorado. Family members are struggling with uncertainty, financial troubles and the pain of being separated from their loved one.
Whatcom County family, separated by ICE: 'We don't know what's going to happen' | Cascadia Daily News
Agents detained Lynden business owner in CO airport as he returned from family trip
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The Border 2 Fire, located between Ross Lake and Hozomeen Mountain, has grown from 2,500 acres on Wednesday to 3,500 acres as of Friday.
Border 2 and Luna fires continue to grow in North Cascades | Cascadia Daily News
The Border 2 Fire, located near Ross Lake, has grown to an estimated 3,500 acres
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Whatcom County’s 2026 homelessness count shows that the number of unhoused people in the community has remained steady for the last three years, even as hundreds find permanent housing and temporary options like tiny home villages expand.
Tiny home villages fight homelessness as chasm between housing supply, demand persists | Cascadia Daily News
840 homeless people, including 128 seniors, recorded in Whatcom County’s 2026 count
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Andy Basabe will be the new director of Bellingham nonprofit Sustainable Connections, and 2 Salty Blondes Salt Company, Point Roberts’ first handcrafted food manufacturing business in more than a century, is now open.
Briefs: Sustainable Connections names new director, flavored salt company opens in Point Roberts | Cascadia Daily News
Business news for Whatcom and Skagit counties
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