SUMAS, Wash. — On Friday, much of Sumas still looked more like a lake than a city. Floodwaters continue to cover streets, yards and farmland after the Nooksack River overflowed, pushing water deep ...

Five months after floodwaters wreaked destruction in Whatcom and Skagit counties, many visible signs of the disaster are gone. Debris and sandbags have been cleared away, damaged ...

A new proposal has emerged in response to the November 2021 floods that swept Sumas Prairie in the Fraser Valley, British Columbia, causing mass evacuations and millions in damages. Instead of ...

U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell toured the flood-damaged town of Sumas on Tuesday, Jan. 25, as local residents, business owners, and Whatcom County officials appealed for federal help now and in the months ...

SUMAS, Wash — Over a month has passed since the November floods that inundated Whatcom County doing $50 million in damage. As Roger De Bruin returned to his flood-damaged home, Thursday, one word came ...

SUMAS, Wash. — It's been one year since historic flooding hit the Sumas community in Whatcom County. Two thousand houses and businesses were damaged and one person was killed. From people still out of ...

Whatcom is a county cleaved in half by the Nooksack River, and with the river comes the inevitability of flooding. Much of the human development in Whatcom is at risk of flooding, most recently ...