An official with the Whatcom County Sheriff’s Office Division of Emergency Management told The Bellingham Herald that damage ...

December 2025’s record rainfall in Northwest Washington left low-income and mobile-home communities especially vulnerable, with many losing their homes, possessions and sense of security.

Across Whatcom, Skagit and Snohomish counties, blueberry farms are facing millions of pounds of crop losses, said Alan Schreiber, executive director of the Washington Blueberry Commission. It’s too ...

The Whatcom County Council unanimously approved using $750,000 from the Healthy Children’s Fund approved by voters in 2022.

Different measures to mitigate flooding between Abbotsford, B.C., and Sumas, Wash., have been floated for years, but the ...

After back-to-back flood events in December and January, the province is putting some financial backing toward flood mitigation in the Sumas Prairie.

Response crews rescued about 50 people in Sumas in a single day — Thursday, Dec. 11 — during recent floods caused by heavy rainfall, according to Fire District 14 Chief Jerry DeBruin. Most of the ...

A controversial 2024 UBC report suggests buying out Sumas Prairie properties and letting Sumas Lake return to its natural ...

B.C.'s Minister of Emergency Management, the Mayor of Abbotsford and the Chief of Sumas First Nation are in Ottawa, urging ...

The B.C. Government has committed $3.3 million for flood resiliency projects in the Sumas Prairie in Abbotsford, B.C., ...