Border traffic into Whatcom tracking close to 2013 level

The latest southbound border traffic data indicates Canadians are coming into Whatcom County at a slightly slower pace than 2013.

The number of people that went southbound through the five Whatcom County border crossing totaled 4.7 million through the first four months of 2014. That's down from 4.8 million during the same period in 2013, according to data collected by Western Washington University's Center for Economic and Business Research.