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Billie Wildrick likes to draw parallels between the Seahawks and 5th Avenue Theatre's professional actors.

“We get similar care. There's a certain amount of Pete Carroll-ness in (the theater's artistic director) David Armstrong,” she said. “Coach…

Local artists seem to be bringing out a lot of work they’ve created over the last several rainy winter months for the Downtown Art Walk from 6 to 10 p.m. Friday, Feb. 6, in downtown Bellingham, sponsored by the Downtown Bellingham Partnership.

Skagit Valley College student Yadira Rosales is a recipient of the 2015 Transforming Lives award from the Trustees Association of Community and Technical Colleges. The annual award recognizes current community and technical college students and alumni who overcome barriers to their academic…

Hi, readers.

I'm The Oregonian's new Clackamas County reporter.

I studied news-editorial and visual journalism, political science and Spanish at Western Washington University, then started working for The Oregonian as a summer intern in June 2014. Since then I have…

Will Braden’s story started with a cat and a camera and now it’s stretched across the nation.

That particular cat, a regal-looking feline with white paws and a white belly accenting a jet-black coat, used to be named Henry. (He now goes by Henri.)
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Local Peace Corps Volunteer Leaving for Vanuatu: Nicole Proctor has been accepted into the Peace Corps and is departing for the Republic of Vanuatu, an island nation located in the South Pacific Ocean, to begin preservice training as a Peace Corps health volunteer.

My violin was stolen from my house just before Thanksgiving.
I can't get through a day without thinking about it.
Like many people, I've lived through burglaries before and had many valuable and sentimental things taken.
But no theft has hit…

A young Tanzanian girl sits in a concrete classroom crammed full of blue steel desks. In her hands is a clarinet, the sun reflects off its shiny keys as she shifts her hands to form an F note. The sound of music fills the room.
Although the African Blackwood, known as Mpingo, used to craft…