Sudden Valley News

A Sudden Valley general contractor has been charged with forging three homes' water and sewer permits, worth a total of almost $30,000. Jonathon M. Barlean, 34, has been charged with one count of first-degree theft and three counts of forgery.

A Whatcom County judge on Thursday rejected the recommendations of prosecutors and a defense attorney and sentenced the man who until recently had been second in command of the the U.S. Border Patrol's northwest region to four years in prison for child rape.

Crews will close Lake Louise Road to all but local traffic, school buses and emergency vehicles until Thursday, June 11, while they do paving work, according to Whatcom County officials.

More than 50 Sudden Valley residents have signed a petition seeking the recall of five executive board members of the community association.

Ruth Broward's life in community theater began in her early 60s with Sudden Valley's Barn Theatre.

Hundreds of children across the county took out their crayons, markers and paint for the annual Be Kind to Animals Week poster contest put on by the Whatcom Humane Society.

A 12-year-old girl was injured Saturday morning, May 2, when an alleged drunken driver collided with the car she was in on North Terrace Avenue in the Geneva area.

Five commissioner positions in four fire districts in southern Whatcom County are up for election this year, but the districts are discouraging candidates from filing to run.

Hiro Yamamoto, who'll be 48 on Monday, April 13, started acting with the Sudden Valley Barn Theatre after his wife, Kate, and their two sons, Choji, 11, and Yoshi, 9, had been in a couple of shows.

Lake Whatcom Water and Sewer District plan to flush water mains through the fire hydrants in Sudden Valley from Monday, April 6, through Friday, June 12.

Each week, The Bellingham Herald takes a look closer at a construction project or checks in with a business in Whatcom County.

A temporary ban on subdivisions has blocked the potential construction of 184 homes in the Lake Whatcom watershed, and some County Council members say they want to make the ban permanent.

Whatcom County Council members are scheduled to discuss their ban on subdivisions of property around Lake Whatcom at their meeting on Tuesday, Feb.

Kerry Ratzlaff, 44, hasn't been sleeping much lately. The owner of Berk's Towing in Lynden has been working long hours pulling submerged cars, semi-trucks, snowplows and emergency vehicles during the recent ...

A list of local public works projects that could be paid for by a federal stimulus package remained unfinished by officials Monday, Dec.

The collapse of Bellingham homebuilder Apex Construction & Partners Inc. has left behind millions of dollars in unpaid bills and about 20 lawsuits, as materials suppliers, subcontractors and homeowners struggle ...

The frigid weather that's blasted Whatcom County for the past week should remain through Tuesday, Dec.

Rural landowners across Whatcom County could see development potential on their properties reduced under proposals soon to be drafted.