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 ...

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 ...

Snow began falling about 7 a.m. Saturday in areas south and east of Bellingham, the first substantial snowfall of the winter season. Bands of snow were sweeping from the north as temperatures hovered ...

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 answer is pretty simple: Keep plants growing in it. Plants that germinate in the late summer, sending their roots deep into the soil, will provide a place for water to go. This also provides for ...

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 ...

What better way to get people together than to talk about a book, ask organizers of Whatcom READS. For 17 years, the program has connected people across the county for a profound — and fun — ...