Homes, city facilities, school districts and roads across Whatcom and Skagit counties sustained damage in last week’s record-setting floods. From an estimated $2 million to $3 million worth of damage ...

In Sumas, Washington, floodwaters from the Nooksack River have transformed the town into a lake, echoing similar devastation ...

Sumas officials prepared to sound their flood siren as darkness loomed Wednesday afternoon and the raging Nooksack River topped its banks in Everson, approaching record levels as torrential rain from ...

A new proposal has emerged in response to the November 2021 floods that swept Sumas Prairie in the Fraser Valley, British Columbia, causing mass evacuations and millions in damages. Instead of ...

Several thousand people are without power Monday morning across Whatcom County as winds rage and rain persists. The largest reported outage is on Lummi Reservation, where an estimated 2,569 people are ...

Most schools in Western Washington have been spared during record floods, but schools in Sumas and Snoqualmie report some damage to exterior facilities.

A 37.55-acre forested site in the foothills south of Lake Whatcom was sold to the city of Bellingham on Monday, May 19, 2025, by Faunt Visser for $860,000. The site contains the headwaters of an ...

What we now think of as the Sumas Prairie, used to be something very different. As Paul Johnson explains, researchers say the ...

A view of Lake Whatcom from the Chanterelle Trail. Whatcom County Courtesy to The Bellingham Herald Bellingham recently bought two small but important pieces of property near the Lake Whatcom ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Semá:th Xhotsa, or Sumas Lake, in Canada was the center of First Nations’ food system and culture, before European colonists drained it in 1924 to ...