Sumas News

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

Adding to the legal entanglements Washington's beefed up Border Patrol forces have spurred, a Seattle civil rights group is now complaining that some of the state's immigrants don't feel safe calling 911, since their calls will be fielded by a border agent.

Many Hispanic residents are afraid to call local police to report crimes, because Lynden, Blaine and Sumas police often call federal immigration officers to act as interpreters, according to a civil rights complaint that has been filed with the U.S. Department of Justice.

The driver of a dump truck involved in a head-on collision at Vedder and South Sumas roads in Chilliwack Thursday talks to police on the scene.

Recently my Mom and I embarked on our annual getaway to Mount Vernon. We always look forward to our trip with great anticipation, but this year it was almost not to be.

Whatcom County has a water problem, and it's a big one. Even with all the rain we get, our streams and rivers often do not have enough water for people to drink, farmers to irrigate, and to support fish populations in the summer and fall.

But Thursday's collapse of a span just before the busy Memorial Day weekend closed part of I-5 and sent businesses and government leaders scrambling to minimize the potential economic hit.

The existing 13 oil storage tanks in north Burnaby would be doubled to 26 and their capacity would more than triple, according to Kinder Morgan's pipeline twinning project description.

The Skagit River bridge collapse has shut down a section of Interstate 5 just south of Highway 20 between Burlington and Mount Vernon.

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

Jack was born in Sumas, Wash. to Maxine and Avery Minert on March 20, 1930. The Minert family moved to Kingston when he was three years old.

When Blaine learned last fall about the closure of the Semiahmoo hotel, city officials were concerned about what impact that would have on the city's budget.