Glacier 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.

Does the nation's best drinking water flow in the Northwest? The American Water Works Association will decide that at its June conference in San Diego, where a sample of water from Silverdale will represent the region's best in H-2-O. Water from the nearby city beat out the competition from Glacier Springs in Whatcom County, as well as from Eugene, ...

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.

Several people have been charged with possessing firearms stolen from a home in the Maple Falls area in January and allegedly trying to sell them or exchange them for drugs.

This undated handout photo provided by the journal Science shows Iron oxides stain the snout of the Taylor Glacier, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica, forming a feature commonly referred to as Blood Falls.

Ah, spring: Blooming cherry trees. Chirping birds. Flashes of blinding white skin.

Last year's less than winsome summer has local tomato growers plotting strategy this year.

The state Department of Transportation recently awarded a $395,000 contract to a Battle Ground construction company to stabilize a section of riverbank along Mount Baker Highway near Glacier.

And they built the inaugural Method Cabin in about three months. Now, Method Homes, in collaboration with Balance Architects, is officially launching the Balance S-M-L Series of prefab designs with three main ...

Glaciers in Antarctica are melting faster and across a much wider area than previously thought, a development that threatens to raise sea levels worldwide and force millions of people to flee low-lying areas, ...

Antarctic glaciers are melting faster than previously thought, which could lead to an unprecedented rise in sea levels, scientists said Wednesday.

Bellingham Police say a 59-year-old man who was reported missing Saturday was found on Monday.

True to tradition, the Mount Baker Legendary Banked Slalom started churning through foggy, soggy, snowy conditions early Friday morning.

State and federal lawmakers are working to pass massive stimulus packages designed to jump-start our economy.

Growth in the Columbia Valley should be slowed and the urban growth area removed so that area could never become a city, the Whatcom County Planning Commission said.

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.

Floodwaters are beginning to recede, and state Department of Transportation crews are beginning to open roads and clear some of the larger mudslides and avalanches.

Many Whatcom County roads are still closed Friday, Jan. 9, due to flooding. Major road closures include: Blue Canyon Road near Park Road Iowa Street from Pacific to King Roeder Avenue from Coho to Seaview ...

Rising water from the Nooksack River started running over levees at Hovander Homestead Park south of Ferndale and at Marine Drive near Marietta mid-day Thursday, Jan.

Whatcom County was under a state of emergency Wednesday, Jan. 7, after major roads and the Nooksack River have flooded from warm rains and melting snow.