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 ...

Whatcom County health department director Erika Lautenbach was abruptly placed on leave Wednesday afternoon, March 5, and her office has reportedly been cleared out. Two county council members who ...

Lautenbach said raising the threshold to 40 degrees would triple the current costs. It's money that would be cut from other services. "There are finite resources," she said.

That’s the encouraging information that Erika Lautenbach, director of the Whatcom County Health and Community Services Department, had to share in a progress report on Whatcom County’s ...

In a screengrab from video, Erika Lautenbach, director of the Whatcom County Department of Health and Community Services, addresses a Bellingham City Council committee on April 11. A unified command ...

In a screengrab from video, Erika Lautenbach, director of the Whatcom County Department of Health and Community Services, addresses a Bellingham City Council committee on Monday, April 11.

In a screengrab from video, Erika Lautenbach, director of the Whatcom County Department of Health and Community Services, addresses a Bellingham City Council committee on Monday, April 11.

In a screengrab from video, Erika Lautenbach, director of the Whatcom County Department of Health and Community Services, addresses a Bellingham City Council committee on Monday, April 11.

Health and Community Services Director Director Erika Lautenbach offered a broad outline of spending plans for the first two years of funding under the measure in a presentation to the council’s ...

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Across Washington state and around the nation, public health officials like Lautenbach are in crisis. Nationally, at least 248 public health leaders resigned, retired or were fired between April 1 ...

Subscriber exclusive: Health Director Erika Lautenbach said she’s also been receiving angry emails, including ones that contain COVID-19 misinformation.