Last year, the Nye County Water District Governing Board unanimously adopted a bill to require new subdivision developers to ...

The court cited negative impacts to long-term water availability and economic sustainability in their resolution.

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 ...

Snow is still looking likely this weekend and possibly into next week as a cold snap sweeps across the lowlands of Western Washington, including Whatcom County. Significant snowfall is expected in ...

Bellingham’s latest effort to preserve land from logging and development in the Lake Whatcom watershed is its largest purchase since the program started more than 20 years ago, according to city ...

But everyone expects the process of determining who gets what water and when from the Nooksack to be complex and painstakingly slow. A precedent, splitting up water rights in the Yakima ... are ...

it can help support informed decision making for sustainable water management." A map shows the severity of water limitation—the relationship surface between water supply and demand—across the ...

Researchers found that those living in soft water areas had a higher risk of Alzheimer’s disease, based on 2005 data. This map shows current hard and soft water locations (source: Bristan ...

Whatcom County is known for its unique breweries, restaurants and coffee shops, but seven local eateries are currently listed for sale by their owners. Some of these current real estate listings ...

Blueberries are one of the crops grown in Whatcom County. The county Ag Water Board estimates 200 farmers applied for a groundwater right, primarily for irrigation, in the late 1980s and early 1990s. ...

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