A K-9 unit from the Whatcom County Sheriff’s Office took a field trip recently to help make an arrest in Skagit County. Mount Vernon police received a report June 19 of a vehicle being stolen overnight from the front of the victim’s house. The car’s owner told police that firearms had been inside the vehicle […]
Washington declared a nearly statewide drought emergency Tuesday, citing low snowpack and forecasts of a warm, dry spring. Limited exceptions were made for the Seattle, Everett and Tacoma areas, according to a statement from the state Department of Ecology. “As our climate continues to change, we’re increasingly seeing our winters bring more rain and less […]
The Federal Emergency Management Association creates a map of its National Risk Index, a measure of how vulnerable each area in the country is to different types of natural disasters. The risk index calculates the amount of damage a potential natural disaster would cause, so a densely-populated area would have a higher risk index score […]
Defense attorneys for a 23-year-old Everson man accused of shooting and killing his father two years ago painted a picture of escalating violence in the home in the months and hours before the shooting that ended in a split-second life-or-death moment where the man had to defend both himself and his mother with a gun, […]
Property tax measures for Bellingham Public Schools and several other Whatcom County school districts and public agencies were mostly passing Tuesday night after the Auditor’s Office released the first round of ballot totals in a special election. Separate bond measures in Blaine and Lynden required a 60% supermajority but were trailing that mark Tuesday. Washington […]
A Whatcom County Jail inmate reportedly ignited a fire with a video tablet and a paperclip, forcing a relocation of several inmates to another area of the jail. Deputies at the jail were alerted to the fire when an alarm sounded in the jail control room. Deputies responded to the restrictive housing unit on the […]
Communities along the Nooksack River from the South Fork Valley to the river delta at Lummi Nation are under a flood warning in the face of heavy rain that is expected to continue well into next week. The National Weather Service in Seattle issued flood warnings just before 8 a.m. Sunday for Acme and Nugents […]
A storm system slated to hit the Whatcom County lowlands could drop several inches of snow, followed by freezing rain Tuesday night into Wednesday morning. Meteorologists at the National Weather Service in Seattle on Monday issued a winter storm watch for the lowlands and a winter storm warning for the North Cascades for Tuesday night […]
One of six people indicted for their role in a drug trafficking ring that distributed thousands of fentanyl pills across Whatcom County and the Lummi Nation was sentenced to federal prison last week. Ahbdurman Ahmed, 33, of Seattle, was sentenced to six years in prison Jan. 5 in the Western District of Washington in U.S. […]
Severe weather shelters for people experiencing homelessness will be open Wednesday, January 10 through Sunday, January 14, as temperatures are expected to reach well below freezing across Whatcom County. Daytime highs on Friday and Saturday are expected to stay below freezing. The City of Bellingham and the Whatcom County Health and Community Services Department are […]
Work on the Mount Baker Highway will delay travelers heading to the mountains again next summer, but getting past a pair of construction zones should be easier than the detour around last year’s project. It’s part of the Washington State Department of Transportation’s continuing effort to make bigger openings under roads for migrating and spawning […]
Whatcom County’s unemployment rate increased after recent hopeful decreases, with more people unemployed in November than October as Washington state’s unemployment rate also increased. Whatcom County unemployment Whatcom County had a 4.3% unemployment rate in November with 4,973 unemployed people in the county, an increase of 220 unemployed people compared to October. In October, Whatcom […]