Based on what he’s heard and observed, Henkle said vacation rental owners are “almost never there.” Every day, he said, he sees homes sitting empty in Glacier that he suspects are short-term rentals.

The new website was made possible through funding from a San Juan County Lodging Tax Advisory Committee grant ... Program grant in partnership with Whatcom County-based Sustainable Connections.

BELLINGHAM, Wash. — Northern Whatcom County got a double whammy from Mother Nature, snow, and winds. Driving north into Lynden, the winds swirled, now into drifts around barns, trees, and ditches.

A Whatcom County jail inmate died Jan. 21 following a suicide attempt at the facility. Whatcom County Courtesy to The Bellingham Herald Jason Dean remembers his friend, Darren Nixon, as someone ...

Snow began falling about 7 a.m. Saturday in areas south and east of Bellingham, the first substantial snowfall of the winter ...

WHATCOM COUNTY, Wash. — Ryan Belik's days start cold and early when winter weather strikes Whatcom County. "We wake up to quite a few calls in the morning," he said. They are calls from people ...

A winter weather advisory is in effect for the Whatcom County lowlands. At least 1 to 3 inches of additional snow is possible from Saturday night to noon Monday in western Whatcom County ...

The Whatcom County Natural Hazards Mitigation Plan does include a section on wildland fire and the county adopted a wildland fire-specific action plan in November 2023. But Whatcom County is still ...

Night - Partly cloudy with a 52% chance of precipitation. Winds from NE to ENE at 5 to 7 mph (8 to 11.3 kph). The overnight low will be 19 °F (-7.2 °C). Flurries with a high of 31 °F (-0.6 °C ...

The investigation published in March highlighted projects such as the Duffner Ditch in Whatcom County, where the state ...