Five days after a whale washed up at NC’s Oregon Inlet, two others came ashore islands lining the Virginia-NC coast. The latest include one at Corolla, N.C., and a second near Sandbridge, Virginia
A homeless man wandered downtown Jacksonville Beach, Florida, Monday with a live rattlesnake, saying “God compelled him” to protect it from traffic. Police trapped it in the back of a squad car.
During a speech at Florida International University Monday, President Donald Trump cast looming regime change in Venezuela as the end of leftism in The Americas, and warned that military leaders who don’t abandon Nicolás Maduro will “lose everything.”
A repair shop in Southern Pines, North Carolina has filed a lawsuit against FedEx, saying the company delivered a package that was missing watches worth almost $50,000, according to court records.
An Arizona hiker at Utah’s Zion National Park was trapped in quicksand in North Creek and rescued over 2 days, rangers said. It took hours to reach him, hours to pull out his leg and snow trapped rescuers.
Hohl’s Feed and Seed on Railroad Avenue in Bellingham burned Monday with the fire department dispatched at 4:20 a.m., according to the Pulse Point app.
Honeybees have a gene that promotes cleanliness — like removing dead or sick bees from a colony — and breeding for that could be the key to preventing colony collapse disorder, a study from Genome Biology and Evolution says.
The National Weather Service forecast “little or no snow accumulation expected” Monday or Tuesday. However, Environment Canada expects snow in the lower Fraser Valley, which includes northern Whatcom County.
An alligator cops named “El Chompo” was found in a Pennsylvania kitchen in a drug raid that revealed fentanyl, heroin and crack, Chester County prosecutors said. The gator protected drugs and cash.
U.S. Representative Will Hurd (R-Texas) said on CBS’ “Face the Nation” that President Donald Trump’s additional border wall in Texas will take land from “over 1,000 ranchers and farmers.”
A majority of people in all states except Vermont wouldn’t pass the U.S. citizenship test, a study from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation found. Top states included Wyoming and Virginia, with Louisiana the lowest.
One unidentified man is dead after authorities in Baltimore say he was seen on fire, running from a burning port-a-potty outside M&T Bank Stadium, where the NFL’s Ravens play. The cause of the fire is unknown.
Washington forward Noah Dickerson finished with a double-double in the Huskies’ win over Washington State on Saturday. But while Dickerson is often among UW’s leading scorers, his importance goes beyond the stat sheet.
Trucks driven slower than the speed limit on the Mount Baker Highway frustrates many drivers on Highway 542. But is it the trucks or other drivers that make conditions unsafe?
A group of five passengers banded together to make the trip from Seattle to Bellingham after their Alaska Airlines flight was canceled by snow and winter winds, taking a BoltBus and developing a friendship.
The Bellingham Food Bank not only serves the immediate community, feeding nearly 20 percent of Bellingham in 2018, the non-profit acts as the hub for nearly 12 food pantries and a variety of social service agencies around Whatcom County.
Bellingham families are struggling to pay for housing and other expenses like child care each month. When there’s not much money left over, they turn to the food bank to feed themselves and their families.
