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Assessing the impact of military service on our returning veterans

With over 200,000 individuals currently separating from military service each year, a growing number of veterans are faced with readjusting to civilian life. Jay Teachman and his colleagues from Western Washington University studied employment, health and family life of veterans of World War II鈥

Falling Stars: Starfish Dying From 鈥淒isintegrating鈥 Disease

When marine researchers from the University of California at Santa Cruz traveled to Alaska this summer, they noticed something unsettling in the waters near Sitka: populations of starfish were losing their arms. Then other reports started pouring in to their laboratory: from Southern California鈥

Wash. local elections have national implications

Washington state's off-year election features a series of local votes with national implications.

In the airport city of SeaTac, a campaign backed by labor unions seeks to raise the minimum wage to $15 for many workers. In Whatcom County, an unprecedented amount of outside money is鈥

草榴社区 professor hopes to resurrect Ella Higginson's legacy

As a specialist in early U.S. literature, Laura Laffrado knows that once-famous women writers sometimes fall into puzzling obscurity. She also knows that some of those writers have won new attention in recent decades.

But not Ella Higginson of Bellingham.

草榴社区 researchers to study math, science teaching methods in area schools

Starting this fall, researchers from Western Washington University will study local elementary school math and science teaching methods in an attempt to figure out if specialists - those who teach only one or two subjects - are more effective than those who are expected to teach all subject鈥

Initiative 522 draws millions in out-of-state funding, but what do locals think?

Genetic engineering is a complex enough subject on its own, but when the topic is combined with the food we eat and feed our families, everyone seems to have an opinion.

Throw in millions of dollars of out-of-state money meant to persuade voters one way or the other, and the task of鈥

Eat meat? Prepare to pay up

Food costs have outpaced other staple items during the past year, climbing 1.4% according to the consumer price index released Wednesday. But meat prices -- which include beef, poultry, eggs and fish 鈥 rose 2.9%.

Visiting philosopher declares time travel to past impossible

Fanciful ideas of time travel to the past were dispelled by modern philosopher Ned Markosiah at Tuesday night鈥檚 鈥淧hilosophy Today鈥 lecture.

鈥淪o my argument is that time travel to the past is not possible if a certain theory of time is true. Namely, the dynamic鈥

Professor: As estuary health weakens, greenhouse gases increase
Report says Bellingham ranks high in income growth

Bellingham has landed on a list that says residents had some of the fastest growing incomes in the nation - but that doesn't mean local residents are suddenly wealthy.

NerdWallet, a financial information website, recently released a list of cities with the fastest growing incomes鈥

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