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Public event cancellations keep coming

  WHATCOM ­— Due to the COVID-19 threat, the 2020 International Plowing Match scheduled for May 16 at Berthusen Park has been cancelled.   The sponsoring Northwest Washington ...

Stabbing on Mission Road leads to murder charges

57-year-old male dies Thursday; daughter charged   WHATCOM — Shortly before 10 p.m. Wednesday, April 22, county sheriff’s deputies responded on a report of a male who had been ...

Referendum 90 effort begins locally

Drive-through signature days, locations set By Calvin Bratt [email protected]   WHATCOM ­— A campaign to get Referendum 90 on the fall ballot has been started locally, ...

A bite to eat with first responders

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Construction industry back to work

County deaths up just one in the past week By Calvin Bratt [email protected]   WHATCOM — Meeting with construction representatives April 24, Gov. Jay Inslee said that industry ...

Speakers address national security risk of closing Intalco

Thursday rally drew more than 150 people By Brent Lindquist [email protected] At about 1:15 p.m. Wednesday, Shawn Creasey and about 700 of his fellow workers at Alcoa Intalco ...

Alcoa shutting down Intalco

Full curtailment expected by July FERNDALE — The Alcoa Corporation announced today that it will fully shut down its Ferndale Intalco Works smelter by the end of July 2020. “While ...

Ferndale sets construction guidelines

Work can go on if it meets certain fairly narrow criteria By Brent Lindquist [email protected]   FERNDALE — Contractors around Ferndale can get back to work, but only if ...

State decries federal relaxing of water quality standards

  OLYMPIA — Washington State Department of Ecology Director Laura Watson on April 17 issued the following statement on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to ...

Car theft leads to chase, arrest

Ferndale man in jail for taking classic Chevelle from driveway, and much more By Brent Lindquist [email protected]   WHATCOM — A Ferndale man is in jail after stealing a ...