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Western Washington University recently honored several faculty and staff members for faculty leadership, diversity achievement, bridging and community engagement. Classified and professional staff members along with an interdepartmental team also received awards.
The faculty leadership and…

When David Wallin was asked by the Sauk-Suiattle Tribe eight years ago to help figure out why the number of mountain goats in the Washington's Cascades was so low, he was puzzled.
"How could mountain goat populations possibly be in trouble?" wondered Wallin, an environmental…

New district boundaries for the Whatcom County Council and Port of Bellingham Commission have been released.
They were developed by a bipartisan districting committee of five people. The district boundaries are the same for County Council and the port districts.
While there are no…

A SERIES of poetry readings will be delivered at the courthouse gallery in Ennistymon next Thursday to celebrate All-Ireland Poetry Day. 

Readings will be given by Joseph Woods and a number of writers who have made North Clare their home such as Knute Skinner, Jean…

Only 10 days after work began to remove the Elwha River Dam, water from Lake Aldwell has begun flowing over a big bite taken out of the south side.

The south spillway gates have been removed, and the gate floor has been blasted down to bedrock.

Then on Monday afternoon,…

Far too often in academia, the faculty at colleges and universities overlook the central function amongst their professional activities: the education and development of their students. When I look back at my teaching career as a professor of geography at Western Washington University, what…

YOU MIGHT have found yourself swaying in your shoes, moving to the deep rhythms of Ben Musa’s huge double bass if you happened to be in the crowd at the recent DennyFest down at Kirkland's O.O. Denny Park.

Bursts of full, rounded notes sailed off the low,…