Whatcom County News

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

Whatcom County Executive Jack Louws has announced that Dewey Desler has agreed to return to work in a part time role — about 80 hours per month for 9 months–to assist him in the development and adoption of the county’s next biennial budget.

Whatcom County leaders will consider, and likely reject, a request to designate 280 acres in the South Fork Valley for future gravel mining.

The Whatcom County sheriff's office says it received reports Saturday night of both a snowmobile accident and a plane crash at an area known as Schreibers Meadow.

BELLINGHAM – A team from the Washington State Department of Transportation was headed for the Bellingham Municipal Airport on Saturday evening to coordinate search operations after a Piper aircraft was reported missing near Mount Baker earlier that day, acoording to a WSDOT press release.

It may be halftime in America, according to Clint Eastwood's now-famous Super Bowl ad for Chrysler, but that doesn't mean everyone is stuffing their belly while watching the game.

A Mitsubishi Montero was travelling eastbound about 5:45 p.m. on West Kellogg Road, near Century Fresh Flowers, when its driver started to make a left turn into the parking lot of Best Buy, said Bellingham Police Sgt.

Officials with the Maritime Transportation Authority say a ferry capable of carrying 600 passengers is now operating to both islands.

A 69-year-old man was in jail Friday 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 motive of the killings is unknown. Police officer Imam Hossain said authorities are investigating the killings early Saturday of Sagar Sarwar and his wife, Mehrun Runi.

The sheriff's office says fire department responded to a report of a man in medical distress.

Democrat Suzan DelBene, former director of the Washington Department of Revenue, will be in Whatcom County Saturday to campaign for the 1st District seat in Congress.

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

Bellingham Public Works put out this information about expected road restriction and closures the week of Feb.

Jurors said Aranda's photo, taken for The New York Times, encapsulated many facets of the uprisings across the Middle East known as the Arab Spring, one of the major news events of the year.

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.

The College Board reports nearly a third of the Washington state class of 2011 took at least one AP exam.

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.

University officials were surprised by the increase, given that they had moved the deadline for fall quarter from March 1 to Jan.

A 59-year-old man was arrested on investigation of a hate crime Tuesday afternoon, Feb.