In the end, Whatcom County was allocated $200,000 for outreach through June 2026. The Department of Ecology, which filed the lawsuit against all water right holders in the region, has continued to ...

RG Haley and Cornwall are among the 12 cleanup sites around Bellingham Bay that have been contaminated by decades of municipal and industrial practices. In an unrelated project further south, work ...

Phantom feathers represent the sparrows killed in Mao’s 1958 eradication campaign, a man-made omen of famine. Turn the page, and petals from Mao’s Hundred Flowers Campaign turn into the heads and ...

Finally, Mark Raaka, health department staffer, has been receiving his triple-digit salary for the last 16 months while his public defender delays his trial on domestic violence charges of ...