For decades agricultural waste and manure was dumped into this lake, which has caused issues for the city today.

Spokane is considering rejoining the Spokane County Aquifer Protection Area (APA) after a 20-year hiatus. The City Council plans to propose that voters decide on this measure, ...

In the weeks after the Trump administration announced a federal funding freeze, Whatcom County nonprofits have been preparing for a possible future with less financial support from the federal ...

Every year during Ocean Conservancy’s International Coastal Cleanup, hundreds of thousands of volunteers in 100 countries comb lakes, rivers, and beaches for trash. Over the course of 30 years ...

The 5-square mile piece of Whatcom County is on a peninsula, sliced off by the 49th parallel, and is surrounded by water on three sides. It is separated from the rest of the US by a boat ride over ...

A federal government office in York County used for employees who study water quality is on DOGE ... exists to monitor, assess, map and conduct targeted scientific research for the public ...

Multiple road signs were stolen in unincorporated Whatcom County, leaving residential streets vulnerable to avoidable traffic accidents. According to the Blaine Police Department, thieves have sto ...

BELLINGHAM, Wash. — The battle over water rights has been raging in Whatcom County for 20 years. Now, slow progress in negotiations has many worried it could last twenty more. The potato seeds ...

Cities, tribes, farms and homeowners are all vying for a share of the same precious resource. ‘We’re Just a Little Hurt’—Canadian, Minnesota Border Towns Wonder if They Are Still BFFs ...

“This is expansion is much needed in Northern Chaffee County, a designated childcare desert, with licensed spaces available for fewer than half of children under age 6,” states the Watershed release.