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Eligible residents receive their benefits on the same day each month in Washington, and Gov. Ferguson says the state plans to stay on schedule with payments for the rest of the month.

Skagit County expects the sales tax to generate between $4 and 4.5 million in annual revenue. 

In Whatcom County, a higher percentage of people have gotten the COVID, flu and adult RSV vaccines than the state average.

The move comes as conditions have worsened at the current Sheriff’s Office workspace in the basement of the county jail. The space was not originally designed for that use and has what county executive Satpal Sidhu calls “substandard” conditions.

The Port of Bellingham is urging anyone flying out of BLI to check their flight status online before they head to the airport. 

Gov. Bob Ferguson says hundreds of thousands of Washington residents have begun receiving their food assistance payments.

Just over 10% of Whatcom County residents rely on food stamps as of last spring.

James was trailing after the initial count and led by less than 100 votes prior to this most recent tally.

The I&J Waterway is one of 12 sites on the Bellingham Bay that the state Department of Ecology has worked on with local agencies to clean up since 2000.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced on Monday that it will partially fund SNAP, though it wasn’t clear how much people would receive.