LOCAL

'Many steps to go' before company commits to $1.5 billion investment

By JULIA LERNER Staff Reporter

March 23, 2023 at 12:19 p.m.


ENVIRONMENT

San Juan sand and gravel mine fined $53K for water violations

Company 'failed to protect water quality' despite warnings since 2018

CIVIC AGENDA

Civic Agenda: March 23 – 29, 2023

This week's meetings, hearings and opportunities for public input

EDUCATION

WWU philosophy professor writes second-shortest article

What's in a question?

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WOMEN EMPOWERED: PART III

Post Point chief operator encourages women to pursue trades

Francis oversees 19 operators; two other women on her team

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WTD?

What’s the Deal With: Blaine’s Starbucks lighthouse?

It’s not a historical monument, but it is modeled after one

ELECTIONS

Sheriff candidate comes from inside the department

Undersheriff Chadwick has retiring Sheriff Elfo's endorsement

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ENVIRONMENT

What's next at the Intalco aluminum smelter?

Canadian company eyeing facility for future development

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LAW & JUSTICE

Set to retire, Whatcom sheriff still all business

Bill Elfo spent 49 years in law enforcement

LAW & JUSTICE

Man arrested for shots fired at Bellingham apartment

No injuries; multiple agencies responded

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TRANSPORTATION

PSE donates electric bus to Opportunity Council preschool

New bus aims to reduce emissions, increase electric equity

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HOUSING

Bellingham's invisible housing crisis: homeless children

City officials seek solutions to growing problem

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ENVIRONMENT

Cleanup 'wrapping up' at BNSF derailment on Swinomish Reservation

7-car train derailed early Thursday morning

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LAW & JUSTICE

Whatcom Sheriff Elfo to retire after 20 years

New sheriff will be elected this November

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BEYOND BARS: PART III

Most people in Whatcom County's jail are in crisis

Planners want social services in new lockup