In a time when millions of people across the country stand to become uninsured amid federal health care cuts, Whatcom County health care officials are working on solutions for local patients. In late ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Erika Lautenbach, who guided Whatcom County through the COVID-19 pandemic and pivoted to address the fentanyl crisis, rising ...

Whooping Cough cases around the state, including Whatcom County, have reached an epidemic level. To help prevent the spread of this sometimes deadly--and preventable--illness, the Whatcom County ...

Whatcom County residents who buy their own Affordable Care Act health insurance will see costs rise by 66% with the expiration of a tax credit, according to a report from U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell.

Two people in a Whatcom County family have now tested positive for measles, and the county health department is reaching out to anyone who might have been exposed. One of the infected people was at ...

This flu season could be as nasty as last year’s, where 17 Whatcom County residents died of influenza — more than all the flu deaths locally in the previous five years put together. That’s partly ...