Mental Health Court (MHC) is a therapeutic alternative to the regular legal system for people with serious mental illnesses.

The 65-year-old was arrested in January 2022 after he admitted to his church pastor that he inappropriately touched the ...

The Whatcom County Courthouse and jail in Bellingham. The new Whatcom County Jail has been a topic of conversation in Bellingham and beyond since its proposal over a decade ago. Discussions are ...

Riley has lived experience with addiction and incarceration, which he used to enhance the U.S. Department of Justice’s basic template for reentry simulations. He and Roark have run the reentry ...

As designers start conceptualizing what the new justice center will look like, Whatcom County leaders are weighing whether the behavioral care center should be located with the jail – or at a ...

The leader of an Everett-based drug trafficking organization was sentenced to 40 months in prison in Whatcom County Superior Court on Tuesday. Mikel Leandro Escandon Tibillin, 38, was arrested in ...

A Whatcom County Sheriff’s Office vehicle. Rachel Showalter The Bellingham Herald Whatcom County authorities recently arrested a woman for reckless burning for allegedly setting a truck on fire when ...

Authorities say the suspect told people he was investing their money into cannabis stores but the businesses do not exist.

The woman who is the suspect in the murder of another woman found dead on Tuesday has been release from a Seattle hospital and has been booked into the Whatcom County Jail. Kara Buchanan was booked ...

That ambition is being challenged by political newcomer Misty Flowers, a mother of three and the chair of the Whatcom County Republican Party. Flowers said she first got involved in politics at the ...