State legislators ultimately decided to continue to fund the Recovery Navigator Program with 80% of its original funding.

That’s after learning about the projected jail capacity estimates for Whatcom County. By 2030, Whatcom County Jail may need ...

Capacity at the existing Whatcom County jail is 362 people, including 150 at the work center. In reality, the county said the jail should have beds for more than 400.

The overdoses occurred within a single housing unit inside the downtown Whatcom County Jail. The 2A housing unit, or cellblock, is a unit where inmates are required to be in their cells 23 hours a day ...

Joshua John Vermaat, 41, was being detained at Whatcom County Jail on suspicion of multiple crimes, including attempting to elude police, burglary, theft and identity theft. On June 25 he was granted ...

Whatcom County plans to build a new jail in Ferndale by 2028 with projections suggesting a need for up to 720 beds by 2050.

He will spend no time in jail or prison. Colton Wesley Braa, 27, was initially charged with third-degree rape for the assault of a woman known to him at a cabin in Whatcom County.

According to the lawsuit, at least 18 people died of overdoses in Whatcom County in 2016, a year the jail saw at least 253 prisoners self-report as abusers of heroin and other opiates. Advertisement 3 ...

Capacity at the existing Whatcom County jail is 362 people, including 150 at the work center. In reality, the county said the jail should have beds for more than 400.