When Kenya vice president Stephen Kolonzo and his wife Pauline opened a school to educate 20 impoverished children under their care, they quickly found themselves in over their heads.

Local educators are elbow deep in adopting major reforms as they work together to hammer out the details of federal and state initiatives that fundamentally alter how students are taught, and how students and teachers alike are evaluated.

On December 6, 2012, recreational use of marijuana became legal in the state of Washington, but how the new liberty will be regulated is still vastly undetermined.

Leslie Pendergrass says she canât take credit for the idea of a boutique locker room, vehicle storage and mail reception business, but she opened shop on February 26 in hopes of fulfilling a border town need.

The March 6 lunch meeting of the Blaine Chamber of Commerce will feature an update on the Wings Over Water Northwest Birding Festival along with a special guest presentation by birder Joe Meche from the North Cascades Audubon Society.

It's time to get those little munchkins signed up for school.

Spring is on its way and with it, thoughts of sprucing up the home and garden.

Kathy Berg addresses a packed house during the February 19 Birch Bay Chamber of Commerce meeting at the newly opened CJ's Beach House restaurant.

June 3, 1931 - February 19, 2013

February 19, 1977 - February 7, 2013

The Blaine girls played their hearts out, forcing an overtime decision against an undefeated team that was used to beating its opponents by 20 or more points.