Blaine News

Arrests by Border Patrol agents in the two-week period ending Jan. 30 included two Mexican nationals apprehended near Forks.

For the second time in less than a year, the City Council must decide how much to charge developers for the added traffic they bring to the city.

A Bellingham man was sentenced Friday, Feb. 10, to one year in prison for trying to sell a map of surveillance cameras at the U.S.-Canada border.

Corinne Charbonneau is a 13-year-old eighth-grader at Blaine Middle School. She's the same age that Anne Frank was when her family went into hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam during World War II.

Trooper Julie Startup says troopers responded early Tuesday morning to a report of a two-car collision on southbound State Route 167 near Interstate 405.

The Semiahmoo Lighthouse was an attractive, Victorian-style lighthouse perched on a platform in Semiahmoo Bay between 1905 and 1944.

Blaine School District voters are facing, for the third time in recent years, a bond request - this time for $3 million for repairs and improvements, with the biggest chunk going to remodel the high school science building.

The Bellingham Herald, in conjunction with several other local businesses, will hold the 4th annual Heart for the Hungry Community Food Drive at three groceries stores in Whatcom County.

An SUV crashed into an ambulance Wednesday afternoon, Feb. 1, near Ferndale, sending both firefighters and the SUV driver to the hospital.

The Bellingham Herald, in conjunction with several other local businesses, will hold the 4th annual Heart for the Hungry Community Food Drive at three groceries stores in Whatcom County.

Federal Way police are investigating a deadly shooting at a coffee shop on Dash Point Road this afternoon that prompted the lockdown of four schools.

An April trial has been set for a Canadian man arrested last year at the border in connection with the 1983 killing of an Oklahoma college student.

Citizens from Ireland and India were among the five people arrested by U.S. Border Patrol agents for alleged Border Patrol violations in the agency's Blaine Sector from Jan.

All seven public school districts in the county are asking voters to approve levies, with Blaine schools also asking for a yes vote on a $3 million bond.

The city will host a "Day of Giving," 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 29 to replenish the Ferndale Food Bank.

Bellingham residents can get a taste of Philadelphia Tuesday, Jan. 31, as the Seattle-based Philly Boys Cheesesteaks truck is making a one-day trip up north.

Tenino police arrested a solider at Joint Base Lewis-McChord for allegedly shooting up a Rainier home on New Year's Day to get revenge for an affair.

A federal appeals court this week said there's enough evidence for the Detroit jury's verdict in favor of a medical-equipment company in 2009.

Kent police are responding to a report of an Amtrak train hitting a tow truck towing a vehicle, Commander Pat Lowery said.

The unexpected vacation Whatcom County students got this week as schools closed because of the frigid weather and icy roads will mean a longer school year for some, and less time off during the year for others.