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An interesting story from Western Washington University about one of its professors:

"When Super Typhoon Haiyan, one of the most powerful storms ever recorded, devastated the Philippines last November, it literally tore apart communities and challenged the country's ability to…

Retired state Sen. Paull Shin should be honored with a new Mukilteo Boys & Girls Club building bearing his name, the Snohomish County Council urged Wednesday.
The council passed a resolution supporting the project and asking the state Senate to approve $3 million for…

You must not remember this. Indeed, it may be key to having a healthy brain. Our gray matter evolved to forget things; otherwise we’d have the images of every face we saw on the subway rattling around our head all day long. Yet we’re building computers with the capacity to remember everything.…

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.

To the non-scientist, it looks obvious: The decline in marine life at the bottom of Bellingham Bay is what we would expect in a bay used as a dump for industrial waste, human sewage, garbage and polluted stormwater over many decades.

But marine researchers say it's not that simple.…

This year, the theme of the Martin Luther King Jr. Conference is "uniting for human rights and environmental justice." The conference will take place on Saturday, Jan. 18, at Whatcom Community College.

Human rights and environmental justice are inextricably linked. Whether the…