Cross-border collaboration on Nooksack River flooding dates back even further. At one point, the river flowed north from Everson and into the Fraser River. During high flood events, some water from ...

Lynda Mercy is accused of killing 67-year-old Thomas Flood. His body was found by sheriff deputies on the Semiahmoo Spit ...

Organizations can now apply for reimbursement from Whatcom County’s Healthy Children’s Fund to provide housing and basic needs to flood-impacted families with young children.

I see people in the hospital, I might go to the OB clinic with somebody, I might meet somebody at a gas station, maybe someone who’s living outside and that’s where they prefer to meet. It’s meeting ...

But the Threshold Singers have no ties to organized religion. Rather, their sole purpose is to offer distraction, comfort and company to those at life’s end. Some volunteers have described the ...

Floods have long been a fact of life for tribes in Whatcom and Skagit counties, shaping ancient stories and influencing the way they lived along rivers. But December’s flooding was a destructive ...

Posting instead on Bluesky, which does maintain relatively effective community standards, our number of followers has more than quadrupled. Both of those decisions to stop playing a losing game on out ...

The leadership at Mt. Baker Ski Area announced on Thursday that this year’s Legendary Banked Slalom, the ski area’s world-famous snowboard race, will not be happening because of low snow and poor ...

Kari Mar is the editor and publisher of La Conner Community News, a nonprofit publication she helped get off the ground last year after the town’s weekly paper shut down.

The man accused of shooting two National Guard members in November 2025 in Washington, D.C., was pepper-sprayed and robbed in downtown Bellingham months before purchasing the firearm used in the fatal ...

Call for applications for the Skagit County Climate Impact Advisory Committee. Deadline: 4:30 p.m. on Jan. 30 The committee will provide recommendations to the Skagit County Board of Commissioners on ...

Jodi Joyce, the chief executive officer of the community health center Unity Care NW, will retire this year. The federally qualified health center (FQHC) will lead a search in the coming months for ...