Blaine News

Music fills the air during summer concerts in Whatcom County. ` ZOE FRALEY *Beta Summer is a splendid time for local music lovers as festivals galore offer up music from classical to the blues.

The Company also announced that mining operations at the San Juan Gold Mine in Peru will continue as normal.

On Saturday, July 5th at Peace Arch Park from 12 Noon til Dusk, Canadians and Americans will come together for common causes and interests for our mutual benefit.

Looking to snag illegal immigrants, drug runners and terrorists, the U.S. Border Patrol is staging surprise checks of travelers on domestic ferry runs in the San Juan Islands.

Here is a roundup of development proposals and decisions, and upcoming development-related meetings: BELLINGHAM Talbot Real Estate LLC has applied to the state Department of Ecology for storm-water permits for ...

The Whatcom Museum is silhouetted by Fourth of July fireworks. ` ZOE FRALEY *Beta This year, July 4th is on a Friday, so revelers can celebrate their independence with a three-day weekend.

Las Margaritas members Liliana Macias, right, and Aleida Mondragon smiles as they served up tamales and tostadas at the Farmer's Market on Saturday June 14, 2008.

Washington state has installed new signs at four Whatcom County border crossings with Canada to let travelers know the wait times at each.

UPDATED AT 2:05 P.M. -- BLAINE -- A section of Drayton Harbor Road that's been closed for more than three years because it fractured and slid toward the harbor will reopen this evening.

If you've ever been tempted to sneak into a construction site and give a steamroller a spin, here's one reason not to.

It happened after three teens entered a construction site in Blaine, Wash., and started up some equipment.

The Whatcom County sheriff's office says an 18-year-old man who was taking a joyride on a steamroller was killed early Tuesday when the vehicle overturned and pinned him.

When we left our cabin in northern British Columbia, we did not anticipate an extended stay in Bellingham.

Blaine Elementary School fifth grader Bridget Wilson hugs paraeducator Steve Bedow at the end of the last day of school on June 12, 2008.

Purio, Inc. - Purio Announces Compact Unit Completion and Testing A dedicated Chat Room for Purio, Inc., has been created at STOCKWIRE.com to discuss this news event.

Arlington Make photo prints from old slides and negatives The Stillaguamish Valley Genealogical Society wants to help people preserve important family photos.

Every chance he gets these days, White Rock resident Neil Piper heads stateside to gas up.

A man from Surrey, B.C., has been arrested in what police described as one of the largest cross-border ecstasy seizures in recent memory.

Blaine border patrol agents seized 144 pounds of B.C. Bud marijuana Friday night, smuggled across the U.S. border south of 256 Street in Aldergrove.

State official: PSE wants more than it needs AT A GLANCE Puget Sound Energy's proposed rate hike would: Raise basic charge per month to $9, from current $6.02. Raise charge per kilowatt to 9.29 cents from ...