Approaching warmer weather could mean rapid snowmelt in the lowlands and the mountains, prompting fears of flooding across Western Washington, including the Nooksack River in Whatcom County. Ice has ...

As previously discussed, the Washington legislature launched a process to quantify and permanently adjudicate water rights in the Nooksack River basin. After several years of preliminary work, the ...

An American river displaced thousands of Canadians in 2021. There is no sign US governments will prevent a repeat.

A car drives through roadway flooding on Oct. 21 in Ferndale, after an atmospheric river moved through Whatcom County. Wind and heavy rain is forecast for the next several days in both the mountains ...

SUMAS, Wash. — Caleb Lyle is still fighting the floods of 2021, trying to rebuild a Sumas house for his mom. "It's a pain," he says. "It's just time-consuming and it does get expensive if you can't do ...

In an effort to decide who owns the rights to water across Whatcom County and how much water they can use in wet and dry years, the state Department of Ecology filed a lawsuit Wednesday — called an ...

The Whatcom County Council has banned inner-tubing on the South Fork of the Nooksack River to protect endangered Chinook salmon there. The shallow river is a popular summer spot for inner tubers, ...

A spring log jam obstructs tubers and boaters on the South Fork of the Nooksack River in June, 2020, in Whatcom County, Wash. Washington State Department of Natural Resources Chinook salmon ...

Fishing on the Nooksack River won’t open as normal this weekend, the state Department of Fish and Wildlife said Tuesday, citing low returns of endangered wild steelhead and spring and summer Chinook ...