The two individuals were training for the annual Ski to Sea race when they lost their canoe and became stranded.

Months after the 2025 flooding, increasingly desperate residents in Sumas and Everson are urging officials to do something — ...

Repairs have begun on a damaged levee south of Ferndale that caused flooding and evacuations of the Marietta area on Christmas morning. The 200-foot breach on Dec. 24, 2022, was likely caused by a ...

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, ...

Parts of Western Washington are covered in water, forcing families from their homes. The city of Sumas is flooded after the Nooksack River overflowed its banks overnight. Only once before this century ...

The Nooksack River starts in small streams around the base of Mount Baker, and empties into Bellingham Bay on Puget Sound. But a few hundred years ago, it used to flow north into Canada. In November, ...

NOOKSACK RIVER — With a bang, Washington state’s dam-busting binge continued last week, as the city of Bellingham blew up its 25-foot-tall dam here. The $17 million project will open 16 miles of ...

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 ...

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers contractors repair a levee Monday, Jan. 2, along the Nooksack River just south of the Slater Road bridge south of Ferndale. Pooled water was filled in and the levee wall ...