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Fewer Canadians appear to be ordering products online and having it shipped to Washington as the Canadian dollar weakens against the U.S. dollar.

Despite the success he's found in it, drawing cartoons and illustrating was not George Jartos' first choice as a career.
“I was doing sculpture,” he said. “But I knew I could never make a living at it.”
Before he went into semi-retirement, Jartos was a…

The Small Business Development Center hosted by Western Washington University makes a major investment in the local economy. The center recently published some figures about their impact last year.

It wasn’t exactly the spoils of victory.

After the fanfare subsided from winning his division of the Canadian Open Freeride Championships, Matthew White, 18, retired not to a tricked-out hotel room, but a lone van in the parking lot at Rossland, B.C.’s RED Mountain Resort—a smelly, 40-…

Imagine living in a place where the shops, parks, medical offices, work, restaurants and schools are all within easy walking distance — a multigenerational neighborhood that offers a range of living choices and costs, a place with trees, walking trails and bike paths, and a park.

Such…

High school wasn't always an option for guys like him. Supporting the family came first.
But Raymond Fosheim was forever an Everett High Seagull. He lived in the best place in the world.
In a new biography — “Mill Town Boy” — by his son Gene Fosheim, the story…

Get your driver’s license, make clear what kind of medical care you want or don’t want.

That’s what Marie Eaton, director of the Palliative Care Institute at Western Washington University, would like to see Whatcom County residents do — even at a young age.

“If I had my way, you…

Once every three years, rental housing owners will need to pay $100 for a city inspection, or $45 plus the cost of a private inspection if they choose to go with an outside inspector.

City Council approved the inspection fees Monday, March 7, following up on the 2015 implementation of the…