Deming News

Bruce Crandall received the Medal of Honor for heroism as a helicopter pilot in Vietnam.

A teenage girl was killed and another was injured when their car rolled over on Friday afternoon.

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

All slots for next week's two mass vaccination clinics for the H1N1 flu have been filled.

Public health officials have rescheduled two mass clinics for next week for those listed as top priorities for receiving the H1N1 flu vaccine, but their exact locations in Bellingham and Deming will be released only to callers making appointments.

Each week The Bellingham Herald takes a closer look at a business or construction project.

Two more mass clinics for the swine flu vaccine have been organized for Whatcom County residents, but the free vaccine still will be given only to priority groups.

The 27th annual Oktoberfest transforms the Deming Logging Show grounds into a slice of Bavaria, with lederhosen, polka dancing and German food and beer, from noon to 1 a.m. Friday and Saturday, Oct.

Louie Gong grew up eating American Indian bread for breakfast and Chinese dinners cooked on a camp stove.

Crews will grind centerline rumble strips on three Whatcom County roads next week, improving safety by alerting drivers when they're crossing into the oncoming lane.

Port Gamble's annual old to all things lumberjack, and jill, Sept. 25-27. Local party-thrower, festival-organizer extraordinaire Jonathon Miller knows that any good festival has to have that one extraordinary year to get the ball rolling.

Barry Hutchinson was home on the rainy afternoon of Jan. 7 when he heard a roar that grew louder and louder, until he thought Mount Baker was blowing its top.

Western Washington University announced these scholarships awarded for the 2009-10 academic year: Hannah Sturtevant, daughter of Alan and Jeannie Sturtevant of Bellingham, received a $1,000 Knapman Chemistry Scholarship.

By Kaleb Hart ; Deming Speedway, 8/28/09 DEMING, Wash. -- A great night of racing was cut just a little short on Friday night at Deming Speedway.

Millions have gone to Las Vegas to get married in a little white chapel next to the clatter of casinos on the strip.

This weekend, Whatcom County is the place to be for outdoor art and music festivals and enjoying the warm summer weather with family.

Wilson, who became a country sensation with her 2004 down-home anthem "Redneck Woman," said Wednesday that if things go well she'll release a new single in September and a new album in November.

Every year they come. In a frenzy of activity they swarm with a common purpose to one gathering place, intent not on ravaging the level landscape but on providing and listening to some of the best local, regional, and national old time musical entertainment available today.

Europe's hottest blues-rock guitarist may well be Ana Popovic, a young blueswoman born in the former Yugoslavia, but currently based in The Netherlands.

A 19-year-old Ferndale woman died Sunday, July 19, after the vehicle she was riding in flipped over on Marshall Hill Road.