Journalism Department

Gateway Pacific Terminals filed several hundred pages of documents late Monday with Whatcom County planners, setting in motion the formal processes that could result in the nation's largest coal-exporting terminal on a 1,200-acre deepwater site at Cherry Point north of Bellingham.

Mr. Hune was a very insightful teacher. In my ninth-grade yearbook he wrote “to a future newspaper reporter.”
How did he know?
I do not believe Mr. Hune, who taught the newspaper class at my junior high school, realized I would later venture into an enjoyable career…

A little journalism lesson learned: Sometimes, the best way to find out about something is to stop talking to spokespeople — and start listening to their stomachs.

With spiking local gas prices being partially blamed on the Feb. 17 fire that swept through the BP…

They’ve called off the cavalry in Olympia — Washington’s small-newspaper publishers on Tuesday quashed a Senate bill that would have required all residential foreclosure notices to be published on the Internet, a move that the papers fear could lead to the curtailment or elimination of…

Community newspapers, those familiar once- or twice-weekly papers that line family scrapbooks with tales of athletic glory, county-fair ribbons and Main Street parades, are as much a part of the region's history as courthouse statues and church steeples. A newspaper was often among the very…

October is threatening to turn into a rough month for developers of a large shipping terminal at Cherry Point north of Bellingham. SSA Marine, which is proposing the exporting of some 48 million tons of coal a year plus 8 million tons of other commodities, continues to have problems because of…

Valerie Bauman has joined the Puget Sound Business Journal as a reporter covering nonprofits and research.
She brings experience that includes five years at The Associated Press in Mississippi, North Carolina and New York. Her work has been published in USA Today, The New York Times and…