WSDOT said alternating one-lane traffic is not possible because some sections are gone.
A daytime lane closure for southbound travelers is scheduled for Thursday.
Changes could take effect starting this summer.
Friday, May 15, is the final day to buy WTA’s 92-day passes.
The suspect was booked into the Whatcom County Jail on six separate charges without bail.
A proposed tax levy to fund the Whatcom Chief’s operation will be voted on in late July, with residents encouraged to weigh in ahead of the vote.
Crews are conducting around the clock emergency repairs on two separate stretches of the highway.
Buses will run every ten minutes to Fairhaven on May 24.
BPD says the situation resolved itself peacefully after closing the highway “out of an abundance of caution.”
Both directions of I-5 will be temporarily reduced to a single lane for a fish passage project.