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U.S. senators headed home for a Fourth of July recess without passing a bill that would prevent interest rates from doubling on student loans next week, leading to a ramp-up of political finger-pointing.

Last year, Democrats used the looming increase in the cost of…

John Morey and Anne Hildebrand - a Bellingham brother and sister with fond 1940s memories of the old Campus School at Western Washington University - were enchanted when a special stained glass window replication was recently unveiled at a school reunion.

If you've ever attended a poetry reading, you've probably had this frustrating experience.

The featured poet reads a poem that catches your attention. Perhaps it's a line, a phrase or a single word. You wonder how the poet came up with the idea, and how he or she wrote the…

If anyone knows that the joy of life is in the journey, not the destination, it's Mahfuza Sobitova.

After nine years of school spanning two countries and two states - her home country of Tajikistan and the U.S., and Minnesota and Washington - the Western Washington University senior…

Juneau’s Hannah Wolf, the daughter of Steve Wolf and Bev Ingram and a Juneau-Douglas High School and Western Washington University graduate, has received a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship to work with Romanian theatre artists, including directing, developing and translating new works with…

Mountain View Elementary School fifth-grade teacher Linda Morey is retiring this month after working at the Lacey school for 34 years.

“She’s been part of the community for decades and is an essential and very important element to why Mountain View is a great school,” said Principal Kurt…

The Moss Adams Foundation, a nonprofit organization funded by Moss Adams LLP, has pledged to donate $500,000 over the next five years to Western Washington University’s College of Business and Economics.
As a part of the pledge, �������� plans to add the Moss Adams name to the soon-to-be-…

The Kent School Board is considering a plan to put partial days into the school year. This plan would shorten up to 30 school days in order to carve out more time for "teacher collaboration." It's yet another instance where students and parents are being unfairly shortchanged to…