10+ hour, 29+ min ago  (284+ words) Cascadia Daily News welcomes a new staff member to bolster our reporting in Whatcom and Skagit counties this summer. Kenedy S'nchez is our environmental/science reporter. She comes to CDN as part of the American Association for the Advancement of…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago  (1193+ words) Much of Western Washington University's queer community gathered on campus Thursday, June 4 to celebrate the institution's third annual Lavender Graduation. The 2025 ceremony was canceled due to a strike by the university's operational student employees following more than a year of…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago  (824+ words) A small group of college students peered into a tote full of Manila clams, waiting." For weeks, they'd been feeding the clams algae and slowly increasing the water's temperature. They then introduced a flush of warm water to make the…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago  (252+ words) A Mount Vernon School Board director whose involvement with the district spanned 20 years has resigned." Laura Flores"Cailloux, who represents District 1 covering West Mount Vernon, announced at Wednesday night's school board meeting that she would resign, citing life circumstances, effective…...

6+ day, 14+ hour ago  (1975+ words) As political conversations get more polarized, young people notice." But they also want to engage with their peers. They want to understand why people think differently than they do. And they find hope in their communities and in each other....

1+ week, 8+ hour ago  (574+ words) From the " other editor's desk: The day before my 24th birthday, I got an email. "We've not met," it read, "but I'm a longtime instructor at WWU and a Seattle Times veteran who is putting together the newsroom for the new,…...

1+ week, 10+ hour ago  (219+ words) CDN competes against other "medium" newsrooms in SPJ's Region 10, which encompasses Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Alaska. It is one of the largest contests of its kind in the nation. Competition in the medium category (staff size of between 6 and…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (1596+ words) In one classroom at Western Washington University, a professor is teaching a class of students how to "vibe code" their own artificial intelligence agents. In another, a professor has moved coursework offline and is printing out readings to discourage student…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (721+ words) A Bellingham Public Schools task force has recommended the district close two elementary schools to adjust for declining enrollment." All schools will remain open next school year. But closures, if approved by Baker and the school board, could be in…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (503+ words) High school students from across Bellingham put robots they built in class to the test on Thursday, as part of the district's first cross-high school robotics competition since 2019." Inside Squalicum High School's gym, 36 teams of students in applied mechanics classes…...