Ferndale News

BP Plc's 225,000 barrel-per-day Ferndale, Washington, refinery finished a planned four-week overhaul over the weekend that included work on a delayed coking unit, sources familiar with refinery operations said on Monday.

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 69-year-old man was in jail Friday, Feb. 10, on suspicion of giving illegal drugs to teenagers and forcing them to engage in sexual acts while he filmed or photographed them, according to the Whatcom County Sheriff's Office.

The City Council voted Monday, Feb. 6, to condemn portions of five private properties the city needs to widen Main Street between Douglas Road and Church Road.

If you're a gardening enthusiast who also loves garden art along with poetry, you might want to check out a one-woman show by Ferndale's Barbara DeFreytas.

Motherwell Products USA introduces NEW LOCKING DETACHABLE SIDE PLATES, LUGGAGE AND TOUR-PAK RACKSA for Harley-Davison Softail and Touring models.

Republicans in Whatcom County without updated voter registrations won't be able to participate in the precinct-level caucuses on March 3. Here is why: The Republican Party limits caucus participation to people who are registered to vote and who have updated addresses.

Whatcom County will fight only a portion of a major state growth board ruling that invalidated zoning and growth policies on a total of 2,575 acres.

City Council members wanted to make it clear: They are on the record as supporting a sales tax increase they had placed on the Feb.

A 63-year-old man will be charged with vehicular assault and DUI after he crashed his motorcycle into a curb near Ferndale, throwing him and his passenger from the bike early Feb.

The City Council is expected to decide at its next meeting whether to condemn portions of seven properties along Main Street, to keep a project to widen the street between Douglas and Church roads on schedule.

Bellingham timber framer Jackson DuBois couldn't resist the opportunity to work six days a week in Poland hewing logs for a history project that warmed his heart as much as it warmed his muscles.

A Whatcom County woman who impersonated her dead mother in order to receive her mother's pension benefits has been sentenced to four years in prison.

The San Juan Islands face a significant increase in large cargo ship traffic under a proposal to build the largest yet coal terminal in North America at Cherry Point, near Ferndale.

At the Legislature, Arizona lawmakers have introduced a bill to require Amazon.com and other retailers with distribution centers in the state to collect sales taxes.

Twenty-nine-year-old Jesse Macklin was sentenced Friday, a little more than two months after he pleaded guilty to more than 200 counts including burglary, invasion of privacy and trespassing.

Can you imagine packing up your family and moving abroad? The thought may very well give you a slight panic attack... or it may induce a little spark of curiosity.

A convicted sex offender from Ferndale has been sentenced to five years in prison after detectives found hundreds of photos of underage girls on his computer.

In fact, one Washington state woman who came within a pound of correctly guessing the combined weight of Woodland Park Zoo's hippos was delighted.

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