SSA Marine has reversed its earlier position suggesting that Whatcom County regulators bore the blame for the company's non-permitted work on Cherry Point wetlands.
Environmentalists and a shipping company have broken off talks seeking a compromise over the proposal to build a shipping facility near Bellingham to ship massive amounts of coal to China.
Republicans are planning to give the president an exercise in trial by congressional hearing. A poll question seemed designed to go along with their premise that his administration has run amok.
A conservative county council majority decided that residents, rather than having to pay for professional inspections of their septic systems, should be able to say whether their system is working...