Point Roberts News

A downturn in the economy that is unprecedented in recent decades, has forced local and state officials to make difficult decisions regarding the level of service government will provide.

For its first three decades, the industrial building along the point's western shore held a salmon cannery, then a clam cannery.

We've sent our reporters to the very edges of the Evergreen State to explore the four corners of Washington.

The ban on recreational shellfish harvesting for Birch Bay, Drayton Harbor and Point Roberts has been lifted because red tide, a marine biotoxin, has returned to safe levels in samples of shellfish taken from beaches in northern Whatcom County.

Organizers of a project to give Christmas presents to needy children in the Blaine School District are asking more people to donate this season because more families are requesting help.

Everybody wants the corner office or the corner lot. But what's so special about corners? People who live at Point Roberts like to say that it's the safest place in Washington, possibly even the country, because it's like a giant gated community that's patrolled by federal agents.

There are plenty of Halloween events today and tonight, Saturday, Oct. 31, for families and youngsters.

In my early 20s, I spent almost five years working for what was then known as Canada Customs, first as a university student, and then full-time for three years.

A driver dragged two Canada Border Services Agency officers with him when he fled a vehicle search at the Boundary Bay border crossing Wednesday .

Voters living in Point Roberts will decide Nov. 3 whether to increase their property taxes to 81/4 cents per $1,000 of assessed value to give more money to the Point Roberts Park and Recreation District.

New writer: Randy Nickum Randy is a lifelong resident of Cincinnati, Ohio, in the Midwest U.S. He has travelled widely across his country as a consultant and has visited six of seven continents, missing only Australia so far.

Each week The Bellingham Herald takes a closer look at a business or construction project.

Can an artificially imposed boundary really contribute much in defining attitudes? When it comes to the Boundary Bay crossing separating Point Roberts from Tsawwassen it appears the 49th parallel marker presents a great divide when considering how to approach the prospect of development.

A mysterious fungus that has killed humans on Vancouver Island and mammals in the Strait of Georgia since 1999 has now dealt death to humans on the mainland.

Dozens of police combed thick forest near the small town of Granite Falls on Monday, hoping they'd find a notorious teenage burglar who may have recently turned his attention to stealing airplanes.

If you were looking for the busiest workplace in Whatcom County last month, one of the contenders would have to be Bellingham Cold Storage.

A plane stolen from Idaho has been discovered after a hard landing in a Snohomish County clearcut, and authorities are wondering if a notorious teen burglar is responsible.

Today's first Northwest Headline is also the viral video of the day. On Sunday, six-year-old Yasmin Frausto was trailing her parents as they walked away from the Valley View Market in Sunnyside, Wash., when a driver with a suspended license backed up at a high rate of speed directly into her path.

Remember that teen fugitive accused of breaking into homes on Camano Island? Police think he's at it again, this time in San Juan County.

Police say the recent theft of a plane and boat may or may not be related to the string of burglaries in Eastsound that occurred in early September.