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When she was a child, Anne Brown’s family members treated themselves to ice cream every year on the date they landed in New York City in 1939 to escape the Nazi terror in their native Germany.

Decades later, Brown and her own family still gather for ice cream every…

Even with a weakening loonie last winter, significantly more Canadians are coming down to shop in Whatcom County than six years ago.

That is one of the insights from a vehicle survey recently released by the Whatcom Council of Governments. The survey estimates 247,…

Coverage of America’s changing urban scene tends to focus heavily on large metropolitan areas and the “megaregions” now often said to dominate the economic future. Often missed has been a slow, but inexorable, shift of migration and economic growth to smaller cities, a geography usually ignored…

Western Washington University’s Extended Education program will offer a project management course and a new writing course this fall.
The 10-week project management course starts Sept. 25, with evening sessions. Participants will focus on nine key areas of project management that will be…

"Stars of the Pharohs," a full-dome digital movie playing at the Western Washington University planetarium, shows temples and tombs of the ancient world and how ancient Egyptians used science and astronomical phenomena to tell time, create a calendar, and align buildings.
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My longtime friend, Ambassador Gary Locke received an honorary degree this past spring from Western Washington University where I graduated, barely, in 1966. Today, I serve as a trustee at that great institution. We were proud to have our ‘former’ Governor speak to the graduates.