Blaine News

Well...it's starting to look like Fall, Winter and Spring around here! Where is our hard earned summer? It's actually very very close and will return tomorrow.

A rainbow-striped umbrella shades Kevin Pinnell's stubbly, laugh-lined face from the afternoon sun.

Starting Aug. 1, garbage collection fees in the Blaine area could increase anywhere from 5 to 20 percent, according to a letter from Sanitary Service Company.

Whatcom County residents can look forward to a fun- and sun-filled Independence Day as temperatures will remain high and activities plentiful before the evening's fireworks displays.

Clark County Historical Museum The silk wedding dress of 13-year-old Sarah J. Anderson is a part of an exhibit at the Clark County Historical Museum.

How should land grant universities prepare to respond to the impacts of globalization and climate change on agriculture, natural resources, and communities? A daylong symposium on that topic will kick off the western region joint summer meeting of land grant universities, being hosted by Washington State University.

The Fourth of July is a time for celebration, but it is also a time when local law enforcement agencies put out emphasis patrols to ensure everyone celebrates safely.

Since she's been running at Bellingham High School, nearly every competitor and coach has talked about Becca Friday's kick late in a race.

Tom Fields was hired as the chief of North Whatcom Fire and Rescue in April 2005 and took over a dysfunctional organization, an assistant chief wrote in a letter to the Washington Fire Chiefs' Association.

Adolfo Figueroa grasped a black rosary in both hands as he remembered his stepbrother.

Officials have identified the man arrested in connection with nearly 70 pounds of marijuana Saturday, June 20, as Kit Van Wong of Newcastle, Wash.

Residents will have to start taking their own trash to a transfer station in Point Roberts, a tiny outpost of the USA across Boundary Bay from Blaine.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents arrested one man and seized more than 64 pounds of marijuana near the U.S.-Canada border Saturday morning, June 20.

City officials are considering a proposed zoning amendment that would allow residents to own up to six chickens - hens, but not roosters.

Former Washington State quarterback Ryan Leaf posted a $45,000 bond in Whatcom County Wednesday after being taken into custody by border agents at the Blaine crossing earlier in the day.

Blaine and the Whatcom County parks department will hold a dedication ceremony for improvements to Semiahmoo Park and recent improvements to Semiahmoo Parkway.

Two Whatcom County high schools have recently been ranked among the best in the country by Newsweek in its annual list of the top U.S. public high schools.

All of the county's seven cities have proposed visions for their growth over the next two decades, and now they'll present their ideas to the County Council and county Planning Commission.

The Whatcom County Sheriff's Office lists the following people as being booked into the Whatcom County Jail.

A hike through the woods can produce all sorts of lovely side effects: flushed cheeks, a sense of harmony with nature, an incomparable feeling of calm.