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(05/18/25 9:30pm)
Depending on the time of year, you’re bound to see some type of salmon running up a Washington waterway—spring steelhead, summer sockeye, fall chinook, chum, coho or the year-round cutthroat. But in many places, that journey ends abruptly at a culvert: A narrow, aging pipe where roads cross streams, often blocking fish from reaching their historic spawning grounds.
(05/18/25 7:36pm)
When Kristy Smith’s daughter graduated from high school, the Bellingham Independents Special Olympics didn’t have a track and field program. At the start of the pandemic, she decided to step up and create the program.
(05/20/25 9:13pm)
Western Academic Workers United has set a strike deadline of Wednesday, May 28. If Western Washington University administration does not meet the union’s demands, including bargaining rights, the student union’s operational student employees will begin picketing that morning.
(05/16/25 1:36am)
It was less than five years ago that Western Washington University had an active chapter of the Young Democratic Socialists of America (YDSA), which boasts over 92,000 members in chapters throughout all 50 states, according to the Democratic Socialists of America website. At the beginning of 2021 though, the campus chapter abruptly ceased activity.
(05/15/25 8:19pm)
Western Washington University men’s basketball junior guard Tijan Saine made his long-awaited transfer decision after entering the transfer portal in March. After meeting and talking with many schools that recruited him, Saine chose to attend NCAA Division I Weber State University in Ogden, Utah, this fall.
(05/15/25 2:37am)
The Vikings celebrated a successful GNAC Outdoor Track & Field Championship on May 10-11 at Civic Stadium in Bellingham. This weekend’s GNAC sweep marked the 14th consecutive track & field and cross country team titles.
(05/14/25 10:11pm)
Western Washington University’s Japanese Student Association (JSA) will host its first heritage dinner in nearly a decade on May 18. The event will include food, live performances and a mochi-pounding demonstration.
(05/13/25 8:19pm)
Western Washington University students and community members can experience world-class music on Sunday, May 18, at 7:30 p.m., when internationally acclaimed percussionist Iván Manzanilla will perform a free concert in the Performing Arts Center 016 (choir room).
(05/13/25 5:28pm)
Canadians are crossing the border from British Columbia into Whatcom County at increasingly lower rates, according to recent data. For Blaine’s recreation companies, the effects of cross-border tensions are still uncertain.
(05/13/25 1:24am)
With the spring quarter well underway, student clubs, events and activities are in full bloom. Among them is spring intramural sports, a prized facilitator of student involvement at Western Washington University.
(05/12/25 7:43pm)
It's not just humans that need time to decompress, dogs do too.
(05/12/25 6:06pm)
Editors Note: This article has been updated since publication to correct the misspelling of a source's name.
(05/12/25 2:51am)
The energetic hum of voices, the clink of glasses, and the familiar kiss of pool balls rolling down the green felt tables — State Street Bar’s doors are finally open once more.
(05/12/25 12:18am)
Spring has arrived in Whatcom County, and with it, our region’s largest migratory animals have come to grace the briny blue of Bellingham Bay: whales.
(05/12/25 12:21am)
Kulshan Brewing has made raising funds for local nonprofits as easy as sitting down and buying a beer.
(05/11/25 8:06pm)
It’s not unusual to see students eating alone, walking campus paths with headphones in, or reading quietly under a tree. What looks like isolation to some, may be an intentional practice of solitude for others.
(05/11/25 8:13pm)
Scholars Week at Western Washington University is almost here, bringing three-minute thesis talks, creative writing readings, poster presentations and the opportunity for students’ hard work to be acknowledged.
(05/10/25 3:47am)
Increasing amounts of U.S. high school students are taking college courses in high school, according to the National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships. Western Washington University hopes to be a part of this continued trend by becoming more active in the College in the High School program.
(05/10/25 2:29am)
Why are wisdom teeth problematic and painful, oftentimes needing oral surgery to have them removed? Western Washington University professors may have found evidence that could support a piece of the puzzle.
(05/09/25 3:59am)
The North Cascades Institute invites attendees to board the 65-foot vessel at Squalicum Harbor on a bird-watching excursion at 8:30 a.m. on May 10. The excursion, Spring Birding on the Snow Goose, will explore Bellingham Bay, Lummi Island and the surrounding waters.