Ferndale News Archives

Whatcom County's six small-city mayors have banded together to endorse four conservative County Council candidates in hopes of sending a message to their opponents, some of the mayors said.

Dads held young daughters getting shots, and moms soothed sons receiving their doses, during the first mass vaccination clinic for the H1N1 flu in Whatcom County on Wednesday, Oct.

The Port of Anacortes has invited residents near Pier 2 to a community meeting to discuss proposed shipping of prilled sulfur.

Any average joe who thinks that they're going to get a huge break if this passes is not paying attention.

Meridian was the top finishing Whatcom County girls' cross country program at the North County Invite on Thursday, Oct.

The Hollywood Video outlet in the Fred Meyer shopping center on Lakeway Drive has been closed, but nobody from Fred Meyer or Hollywood Video responded to requests for information Monday, Oct.

Dillon Quintana's second-place finish in the freshman race helped the Mount Baker boys' cross country team to a 10th-place finish at the North County Invite at Cedarcrest Golf Course on Thursday, Oct.

Two and a half years after a Whatcom County woman was charged with abusing eight llamas, a Superior Court judge will determine her guilt or innocence.

A Ferndale man has been charged with vehicular homicide and vehicular assault after he allegedly drove drunk in July and crashed his car, killing his girlfriend and injuring his friend.

A 20-foot deep landslide has shut down state Highway 410 between milepost 104 and 108 about ten miles west of Naches.

A local wood treatment company has been fined $439,387 by the Northwest Clean Air Agency for not abiding by strict federal pollution standards.

The former site of the Boys & Girls Club is largely off the table as a retrofitted location for a new library, officials say, and more discussion must happen for police and library facilities.

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

Bellingham Grocery Outlet owner Troy Clark is challenging incumbent Andrew McLaurin for the Ferndale School Board position 5. McLaurin has served on the board since November 2008, when he was appointed to fill a vacancy.

Ferndale assistant fire chief Larry Hoffman is challenging incumbent Lee Anne Riddle for Ferndale School Board position 4. The candidates are natives of Whatcom County and longtime Ferndale residents, sending their children through Ferndale's public schools.

Ferndale dropped the first two sets but rallied to beat Anacortes 18-25, 13-25, 29-27, 26-24, 15-12 on the road on a Thursday, Oct.

City leaders need to look more carefully before voting to start projects because that could mean opening an expensive can of worms, said Brent Goodrich, running for City Council.

A Ferndale man and Western Washington University graduate has been sentenced to almost three years in state prison after pleading guilty to vehicular homicide.

Jon Mutchler says that, if elected, he'll always remember that city money isn't his; it came from a tax or fee on somebody.

A new city park will honor the founder of an old section of Ferndale. The area just east of Ferndale High School - north of Washington Street and along Second Avenue - has long been known as Griffin-town, named after Augustus Griffin.

Whatcom County sheriff's deputies are investigating the circumstances surrounding a body that was found inside a charred car at Lake Terrell near Ferndale on Friday.

A Whatcom County sheriff's officer says two fishermen found a smoldering car with a body inside at the Lake Terrell Reserve near Ferndale.

A woman who led Ferndale police on a high-speed chase Thursday night, Oct. 1, escaped serious injury when her pickup crashed and rolled over in the 4800 block of Haxton Way.

One of the largest construction projects in Whatcom County is well under way. The Maintenance Facility Relocation Project at BP Cherry Point will combine the general shop, machine shop and storage area into two new buildings on the northeast side of the property.