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Mount Baker towers nearly 10,800 feet in the sky, so massive that on clear days it can be seen as far away as Seattle. Whether because of its historic snowfall, its world-class skiing and snowboarding or its striking views, it's hard to think of Whatcom County and not think of Mount Baker…

The student in front of you is surfing Facebook on his or her laptop. The girl a few rows across from you just received a text. A guy nearby just put his headphones in, drowning out the professor's rhetoric. Sound familiar?
The abundance of smartphones on college campuses has called…

October was a busy start to the fourth quarter of 2011 in terms of economic activity in Whatcom County.
Along with a variety of business expansion announcements and moves, one of Whatcom's largest manufacturing employers went through a contentious contract negotiation. Workers at…

Southbound border traffic into Whatcom County has increased significantly in the past year but is still well below numbers posted before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
According to data collected by Western Washington University's Center for Economics and Business Research, nearly 10…

Countries around the world are working harder than ever to save their forests. Brazil’s president recently announced that the country’s 80 percent Amazon deforestation reduction target will be met by 2016 – four years earlier than promised. In 1998, China banned tree cutting to preserve its…

Medical researchers studying the possible cause of higher melanoma rates in Whatcom County think they may have found an answer.

The State of Washington, and particularly Whatcom County, is consistently higher than the national average for melanoma.