Vista celebrates the Great Kindness Challenge
Weeklong event encourages kindness in Ferndale’s middle schools By Brent Lindquist [email protected] FERNDALE — In an ordinary year, Vista Middle School’s Kindness Week ...
COVID cases break out at Sheriff’s Office work center
BELLINGHAM — On Jan. 19 around 5:30 p.m., an offender living in one of the dormitory units at the minimum security Whatcom County Sheriff’s Office Work Center, 2030 Division ...
Ericksen: Cap and trade bill too big for a COVID session
‘We shouldn’t be debating (bills) … when the public isn’t here,’ says local senator OLYMPIA — The governor’s new cap-and-trade proposal got its first hearing ...
Senate Dems extend Inslee’s emergency orders …
… indefinitely By Franz Wiechers-Gregory [email protected] OLYMPIA — Gov. Jay Inslee took the oath of office for his third consecutive four-year term on Jan. 13 ...
KWPZ’s Jim Bouma passes unexpectedly
40 years with the station, he and co-host Lynette Morgan won a national award in 2011 By Calvin Bratt [email protected] LYNDEN — Jim Bouma, Lynden resident and 40-year ...
Revenue wants businesses to pay excise tax electronically
OLYMPIA — Businesses that file their state excise taxes annually are now required to file and pay electronically beginning with their 2020 return (due April 15, 2021). The Department ...
Slide closes Ken Hertz Trail
WHATCOM — A landslide in Lake Whatcom Park on the east side of the lake is affecting use of the Ken Hertz Trail. The trail is closed to all users near the 1.25-mile marker. ...
‘Massive’ gas, fuel tax bill introduced
Bill for $27B in transportation projects could equal $1 per gallon at the pump — from the Washington Policy Center SEATTLE — In the second week of this year’s “virtual” ...
Middle Fork dam site now free-flowing stream
Removal opens up 16 miles to fish, predicted to return WHATCOM — Back last summer, crews used two big blasts to demolish the Nooksack River Middle Fork dam to clear the way ...
County’s high case rate could be peaking
COVID infected 1,114 Whatcom residents in the two weeks Jan. 2-15 By Calvin Bratt [email protected] WHATCOM — The COVID virus is seeping out into the general population ...