B.C.’s emergency minister, the mayor of Abbotsford and the chief of Sumas First Nation are in the nation’s capital this week, ...

Church members and community members at the Sumas Advent Church serve warm meals to volunteers as they take a break from flood recovery. (Photo by Amanda Monthei.) This story was originally published ...

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

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

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

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, ...

British Columbia's emergencies minister says she's cautiously optimistic about securing federal funding to prevent future ...

Bellingham & Whatcom County Housing Authorities (BWCHA) are on track to make significant progress this year on two affordable housing developments. The first is the Unity Street Redevelopment project, ...

A November 2021 atmospheric river was B.C.’s costliest severe weather event at more than $675 million in insured damage.

December 2025’s record rainfall in Northwest Washington left low-income and mobile-home communities especially vulnerable, with many losing their homes, possessions and sense of security.