Bob Simmons is a longtime KING-TV reporter who has been writing news for print and television for 65 years.
She tells a Bellingham audience that the coal bound for China will be coming out of the Mountain states, but it's an open question whether the port will be in Washington or Canada.
The peace treaty contains an unusual clause for dealing with the media, and appears to be a climb-down by the Lummi Nation.
Bellingham ponders becoming the second city in Washington to outlaw plastic shopping bags.
Whatcom County ferry service is likely to continue, despite Lummi Nation objections and a looming deadline.
Citizens have pushed for years to save the wooded tract from development. Washington Federal, the bank that wound up controlling the 85 acres, says it will sell the property to the city.
