Deming News

A package of proposed changes would reduce development potential in dozens of rural areas throughout Whatcom County, but it would still allow some rural centers to continue moderate growth.

Whatcom Land Trust is promoting its summer-long Junior Stewards program with a special event at 3:30 p.m. Friday, June 26, that offers a close-up look at several birds of prey.

For the hundreds of Whatcom County residents who flocked to the Deming Logging Show Saturday, June 13, the event was an entertaining way to spend a sunny weekend afternoon.

Catch local and regional loggers in action in such competitive activities as cable splicing, speed climbing, log rolling and hot saw bucking at the Deming Logging Show, Saturday and Sunday, June 13-14, at the Deming Logging Showgrounds, 3295 Cedarville Road, near Nugents Corner.

The Washington State Patrol wants to find a driver who left the scene of a rear-end collision east of Deming Thursday, May 28.

A 68-year-old woman was injured in a car crash west of Deming Wednesday morning, May 20, and a stretch of Mount Baker Highway was closed for several hours while the Washington State Patrol investigated.

Vancouver firefighters work on a house fire at 15606, N.E. 42nd Street, Monday, May 11, 2009.

Deming residents may have felt the earth tremble at 6:56 a.m. Monday, April 27, when a 2.4-magnitude earthquake hit the area.

Bellingham Childcare & Learning Center has elected three new board members: Angela Murray, Johann Neem and Debbie Chudek.

Saying they can't keep up with expenses without an increase in property tax dollars, the Whatcom County Library System and its supporters plan to go before voters in November to ask for more money.

A $50,000 gift from an anonymous donor may be the remaining funds needed to complete the expansion of the Deming Library, a project that is in its fifth year of fundraising.

A recent outing to Eagle Haven Winery, located on North Cascades Highway about four miles east of Sedro-Woolley, turned out to be much more fun than I anticipated.

Construction of the first of four planned roundabouts along Guide Meridian begins Monday, March 9, but the state Department of Transportation and local governments have plans for many more.

Within a month, the first of four large roundabouts along Guide Meridian will open to traffic.

Up to an inch of snow may fall on Deming, Maple Falls, Kendall and other areas in the North Cascades foothills Saturday, Jan.

For the first time since the recent storms, KIRO 7 cameras were able to get pictures of the devastation along stretches of the Mount Baker Highway Tuesday.

The flooding may have subsided but the rebuilding of Whatcom County roads, levees, homes and businesses has just begun.

More than two dozen roads throughout Whatcom County have sections that have been washed away, and the cost of repairing them will reach into the millions, the country road engineer said.

Nooksack River floodwaters were receding Friday, Jan. 9, but travel remained difficult in some low-lying areas after the river breached or topped levees in spots from Deming to Marietta.

A mudslide damaged five houses along the Mount Baker Highway near Deming. The Bellingham Herald reports the slide about 4 a.m. Thursday spilled onto the highway.