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Scientist: Lake Whatcom's problems persist, but are not getting worse

The quality of Lake Whatcom water may have stabilized, but it will likely take decades to get the city's drinking water source back to near-pristine levels.

New elk survey takes flight

Unmanned aircraft will scout a section of state-managed forest land north of Hamilton next week on the lookout for elk 鈥 a known hell-raiser in eastern Skagit Valley.
For several years, a growing herd has caused trouble for farmers, landowners and drivers along Highway 20 and the upper鈥

Whatcom County has its share of hazardous slide areas, too

While Whatcom County has no known landslide threats that compare to the one that devastated the Oso community along the Stillaguamish River's North Fork on March 22, hilly portions of the county are dotted with areas where small-but-dangerous slides have occurred in recent years.

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Jimerson of 草榴社区 authors new book on civil-rights movement

Randall C. Jimerson, a history professor and director of the Graduate Program in Archives and Records Management at Western Washington University, has released a new book, 鈥淪hattered Glass in Birmingham: My Family鈥檚 Fight for Civil Rights, 1961-1964,鈥 which recounts his experience as one of five鈥

Policy on protecting human subjects in research open for 30-day review
Whatcom County wages rise 6.9 percent in third quarter of 2013

Whatcom County posted a significant jump in wages during the third quarter of 2013, according to a new federal report.

The average local weekly wage was $807, a 6.9 percent increase compared to a year earlier, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. It's also up 5鈥

Soap Lake's healing waters studied more closely

A longtime resident is one step closer to solving the mystery of Soap Lake.
John Glassco's life mission has been to preserve and research the healing waters of Soap Lake. The Soap Lake Conservancy Board chairman recently passed along the only water samples taken from the lake before鈥

Canada's cultural policies antiquated

While the CRTC's recent reprimand of three Toronto X-rated channels for failing to meet the required 35 per cent threshold for Canadian content became fodder for Internet humour, Canadian content regulations are no laughing matter for cultural nationalists.
Indeed, one of the oldest鈥

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Pause Is Seen in a Continent鈥檚 Peopling

Using a new method for exploring ancient relationships among languages, linguists have found evidence further illuminating the peopling of North America about 14,000 years ago. Their findings follow a recent proposal that the ancestors of Native Americans were marooned for some 15,000 years on a鈥

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