• Whatcom council agrees to fight only part of state growth board ruling

• WWU receives record number of freshmen applications for fall 2012 quarter

• Wash. moves step closer to legalizing gay marriage

• Seven Lynden cheerleaders among those sick after Everett competition

• Whatcom County man accused of hate crime for pointing gun, yelling gay slurs

• Man accused of pimping out 17-year-old girl in Bellingham

• Sex offender registers new address in north Bellingham

• Cantwell helps defeat another GOP plan to drill in ANWR

• Report: Rep. Doc Hastings steered federal money for project near property he owned

• Sea-Tac, 27 more airports will test lower-hassle screening

• Child development clinic Monday, Feb. 13, in Bellingham

• What happened to the cold winter weather and snow?

• Ferndale council rallies behind proposal to increase sales tax

• Whatcom council to consider appealing state board ruling on rural zoning, policies

• 3 men arrested on suspicion of crashing Kendall party, choking man

• 911 recording reveals worker's frantic call outside Powell home

• Vigil planned for Bellingham man who died after being pushed from second-story walkway

• Alaska to begin flights from Seattle to Philadelphia, Fort Lauderdale

• Bellingham man, two others, injured in I-5 crash

• DUI suspected in motorcycle crash that injures 2 near Ferndale