Lanes on both directions of Interstate 5 between Portal Way and Grandview Road in Ferndale will close overnight for a week as Washington State Department of Transportation crews repave the road and ...
Western Washington University welcomed 2,690 first-year students to campus this fall, the smallest cohort since fall 2020. It’s a drop from 3,019 first-year students last year and brings the ...
When the federal shutdown began Oct. 1, officials said money for the benefits could run out in a couple of weeks ...
At-large incumbent Barry Buchanan is running for a final term on Whatcom County Council, and he’s set on the rare opportunity of taking major civic initiatives from pre-conception to operational.
Burlington-Edison High School was selected as one of 450 schools nationwide to receive $5,000 through the T-Mobile Friday Night 5G Lights program. The Tigers were one of over 2,100 schools competing ...
Angela Conijn was facing a second-degree murder charge following the 2021 shooting death of a woman on her property ...
The seizure was the latest in a busy year for the Whatcom Regional Drug Task Force. Since the start of 2025 to the third week of September, the task force has seized 41,793 grams of cocaine. That’s a ...
Sophia Gates covers rural Whatcom and Skagit counties. She is a Washington State Murrow Fellow whose work is underwritten by taxpayers and available outside CDN's paywall. Reach her at ...
One must be peering through decidedly rose-colored glasses to expect next year’s elections to follow the same course, here or anywhere. The 2026 midterm cycle, with seats for Congress and the state ...
Endorsements are the decision of CDN’s editorial board, composed of Executive Editor and Opinion page editor Ron Judd, Publisher Cynthia Pope and nonvoting advisory member Dean Wright, a veteran ...
“Housing is the pain point. Housing is the elephant in the room of economic development,” said Guy Occhiogrosso, president and CEO of the Bellingham Regional Chamber of Commerce. If workers can’t ...
Rienstra, 39, is a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner who is currently serving on the Whatcom County Charter Review Commission. While leaning somewhat progressive for the district, Rienstra ...