While the province has provided some funding for flood mitigation, including $76.6 million to upgrade a critical pump station ...

Different measures to mitigate flooding between Abbotsford, B.C., and Sumas, Wash., have been floated for years, but the ...

At the Tuesday, Jan. 13 Whatcom County Council meeting, dozens of residents shared their experiences of the catastrophic December 2025 Nooksack River flood and asked the government for action.

Cross-border collaboration on Nooksack River flooding dates back even further. At one point, the river flowed north from Everson and into the Fraser River. During high flood events, some water from ...

SUMAS — It was decided during the Jan. 12 Sumas City Council meeting that flood updates would be an ongoing agenda topic as ...

The Whatcom County Council unanimously approved using $750,000 from the Healthy Children’s Fund approved by voters in 2022.

This story was originally published in Amanda Monthei’s Substack. It’s Monday, noon, at an ad-hoc flood response coordination center in Sumas, Washington, which under normal circumstances—that is, ...

Response crews rescued about 50 people in Sumas in a single day — Thursday, Dec. 11 — during recent floods caused by heavy rainfall, according to Fire District 14 Chief Jerry DeBruin. Most of the ...

Four years ago, 4 feet of water flooded into Sumas Elementary and destroyed the school. Fortunately, the Nooksack Valley School District was already constructing a new building, using voter-approved ...

An official with the Whatcom County Sheriff’s Office Division of Emergency Management told The Bellingham Herald that damage ...