On the first and third Sunday of every month, Bellingham’s Chris Jerome wakes up early to set sail on Lake Padden. He doesn’t use a full-size sailboat, but a miniature radio-controlled one.

Furniture manufacturer Lionel Baril founded Lionel Enterprises Inc. in 1966 so that he could enter the booming snowmobile ...

In the course of his long career, Leon Panetta was a lieutenant in the Army, a congressman from California, Bill Clinton’s White House chief of staff, Barack Obama’s director of the C.I.A., and later, ...