Canada

It was another big year for southbound border crossings into Whatcom County, but the traffic may start to level off if the Canadian dollar continues to weaken.

Last year more than 16.2 million people crossed the Canada/U.S. border into Whatcom County, a 5.7 percent increase compared to…

As the Canadian dollar continues to dip in value, Lower Mainland residents are more inclined to stick around rather than skip across the border.

And that’s beginning to cause worry for some Washington State businesses.

Canadians at the border crossings in the northwestern-most county of the continental United States just keep on coming.

According Western Washington University’s Border Policy Research Institute, about 300,000 Canadian-driven cars crossed over the border from…

The Port of Prince Rupert’s Fairview container terminal, which is operating beyond capacity, sends about 60 per cent of its import containers to U.S. destinations and senators from Washington state have launched a bid to slap a per-container fee on all that cargo.

American interests,…

After the Skagit River Bridge collapsed May 23, many business owners in Burlington and Mount Vernon reported declines in customer traffic of 15 to 80 percent, including patronage by increasingly important Canadian shoppers.
A recent report from Western Washington University’s Border Policy…

It turns out Canadian shoppers can sometimes get even better-than-expected savings by shopping in the U.S. if they time it right at the border crossing.

In-depth articles published earlier this month in the Vancouver Sun and other Canadian newspapers indicate that for the past 13 years,…

Whatcom County soon will get a better idea of the impact cross-border travel has in this area.

The Whatcom Council of Governments is partnering with Western Washington University's Border Policy Research Institute on a large-scale survey of travelers going through the five Whatcom…