BELLINGHAM, Wash. — With freezing temperatures on the way, workers prepared for the season's first opening of Whatcom County's cold weather shelter with one goal in mind. "To make sure that in the ...

Erika Lautenbach, who guided Whatcom County through the COVID-19 pandemic and pivoted to address the fentanyl crisis, rising homelessness and direct funds for new child-care programs, has left her ...

Neighbors of Whatcom County’s severe weather shelter held a public meeting Thursday evening to air concerns about the shelter’s impact on surrounding businesses and residences. More than 30 people ...

Whatcom County officials are holding their breath as both overdoses and overdose deaths are continuing to drop from the record highs of last year, and the health director outlined several recent steps ...

Anger and accusations dominated a Whatcom County Health Board meeting over the County Council’s recent refusal to include a vaccine opponent on the Public Health Advisory Board. Councilman Todd ...

As the U.S. begins to open back up, coronavirus clusters — where multiple people contract COVID-19 at the same event or location — are popping up all over the country. And despite drawing massive ...

Several Whatcom County agencies will start sharing resources and information as they mobilize to confront the opioid crisis in the same way that emergency workers respond to an earthquake or other ...

Lutheran Community Services in the Central Lutheran Church at 925 N. Forest St. will provide overnight severe weather shelter for up to 70 people over the 2024-25 winter season in Bellingham, Wash.