Point Roberts News

Residents must now deliver their own garbage and recyclables to the transfer station, because Point Recycling and Refuse is no longer doing pickups.

Crews are putting up 950 bright-green traps in Whatcom County as part of an annual effort to keep a non-native pest from taking hold in Washington state, where it could destroy hundreds of thousands of acres of trees.

Planning ahead for the 4th of July holiday? Here's what's happening in Whatcom County: The Haggen Family Fourth of July celebration, from 1 to 9:30 p.m. at Zuanich Point Park, offers live music, kids' activities, food and craft vendors and a beer garden.

A former U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer was sentenced Tuesday, June 23, after he was caught trying to smuggle cigarettes into Canada at the Pacific Highway Truck Crossing in 2005.

A former U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer was sentenced to a year in jail for trying to smuggle cigarettes into Canada.

Curbside trash and recycling pickup ends this month, and residents here will start having to take their own trash to a transfer station.

A group of Tsawwassen residents says the continued problem of aircraft noise can't be swept under the carpet anymore.

About 20 friends, relatives, co-workers and transit riders greeted Ron Hentz as he pulled his decorated bus into Whatcom Transportation Authority's downtown terminal shortly before 3 p.m. Friday, June 12, and ended his nearly 30-year career behind the wheel.

AMID the economic crisis and other issues affecting the day-to-day lives of Americans, it is easy to forget about terrorism and the threats that led to a new Department of Homeland Security and a slew of new security measures.

Of all the stories I have written, the story of Brian Van Vlack is the most bizarre.

VANCOUVER a ' It's hard to imagine a 30-tonne mammal existing under anyone's radar, but that is largely the case with a dozen or so grey whales that now call the waters off Vancouver home each spring.

As of June 1st a US drivers license is no longer accepted as documentation to re-enter the United States at a land border.

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The chief of Whatcom County Fire District No. 5 in Point Roberts has retired after spending more than 17 years in the fire service.

Point Roberts , Washington, USA, is a small seaside community with just under 1,500 residents.

More than 40 naturalists write about their favourite haunts in the new book "Parks and Nature Places Around Vancouver." Many of the destinations are in Vancouver and Burnaby, but others are located as far east as Fort Langley and south to Point Roberts.

Ladner Pioneer Library offers free Tech Tuesday Internet classes, the Tsawwassen Library offers Wired Wednesday.

Interfaith Community Health Center will receive $200,000 in federal stimulus money to expand its services.

A Canadian poultry company may install a chicken hatchery on rural residential land without special permission because it's outright allowed under zoning, the county hearing examiner ruled.

The Step and Blended Family Institute and Blended-Families.com announce a FREE Step Dating Teleconference on January 22, 2009 starting at 9 pm EST.