Blaine News

Whatcom Weavers Guild members were gratified by the exposure they gained last year during their first participation in a Whatcom Art Guild show, so they're back.

Last night around 12:15 a.m., Portland Police conducted a traffic stop on a pickup truck that was being driven Northbound on Interstate 5 near the Terwilliger offramp.

An early morning traffic stop on Interstate 5 in Portland led to a historic ecstasy bust.

Ken and Jill Peck, owners of Dakota Creek Winery near Blaine, just received a rating of 90 points from "Wine Spectator" magazine for their 2007 syrah, released this year.

County leaders want to leave Geneva and Hillsdale as urban growth areas so Bellingham can pull them into city limits, but they only want rural levels of growth there because those areas are in the Lake Whatcom watershed.

Events to honor Whatcom County veterans begin this week and go through next week.

As the chair of United Way of Whatcom County's 2009 Campaign, it seems that everywhere I go these days and in almost every phone call I receive there seems to be one question on everybody's mind, "So, how's the campaign going this year?" My sense is that the questioner thinks my response will not be so positive, and they are often surprised to hear ...

Incumbents Charlie Hawkins and Bonnie Onyon won their races for seats on the Blaine City Council in the Tuesday, Nov.

The U.S. Border Patrol will recognize a Coast Guard Auxiliarist at Coast Guard Station Port Angeles, Wash., on Ediz Hook Road at 8:30 a.m., Wednesday.

After establishing a popular 320-bed hostel in Seattle, the state chapter of Hostelling International is looking to establish a smaller one in Bellingham, and it wants volunteers to help develop a plan for one.

After several weeks of debate, the City Council decided to eliminate impact fees throughout Blaine, in a 4-3 vote Monday night, Oct.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents in Blaine arrested a Honduran national Oct.

City Council members on Monday, Oct. 26, will be asked by administration officials to take the statutorily allowed 1 percent property tax increase for 2010.

David Whittaker, the disabled veteran who took on what he described as a mission from God to travel from Key West, Fla., to Blaine, Wash., in his motorized wheelchair, towing a 130-pound American flag, has made it to Longbeach, Calif.

A development that would have 134 residential units in multiple buildings, plus retail and office space, has been proposed for about 16 acres in the 1700 and 1800 blocks of Peace Portal Drive.

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His face was scarred by the flesh-eating bacteria that had invaded his body, her face by smallpox that killed her immediate family.

With thousands of tourists expected to travel through Whatcom County for the 2010 Winter Olympics, the city of Blaine had prepared to attract a number of those tourists with the Peace Arch Park's 12th Annual International Sculpture Exhibition.

A Surrey, B.C., truck driver is being held in the United States for allegedly attempting to smuggle 192 pounds of cocaine into Canada.

Spying a fire truck no big deal, but Americans left to wonder, - Where the heck is Oak Bay?' Pulling in to service stations across America in a fire truck didn't attract a lot of attention.