In the Media
...A TSUNAMI ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE COAST AND THE LAND AREAS ADJACENT TO THE STRAIT OF JUAN DE FUCA AND THE NORTHERN INLAND WATERS...
Sukie Baxter discovered rolfing because of a horse.
Now, she has built an entire business around the therapy. While she occasionally works with horses, she’s more likely to be digging into tight, knotted connective tissue on the average human office worker.
When the Western Washington University women's basketball team opens the NCAA Division II West Regional Tournament today they'll be facing an opponent they are very familiar with.
That it's the same team that knocked off the Vikings less than a week ago in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference championship game, well, it's hard to say if that's an advantage or not.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, emergency management specialists coordinate disaster response, provide preparedness training and create plans for natural, wartime or technological disasters.
Jim, originally from Seattle, graduated with a degree in marine biology from Western Washington University and worked at the Navy’s arctic research lab in Barrow on contract. When he found he couldn’t move further up without getting another degree, he looked around or a career change. He liked working with wood and wanted to learn how to fiddle so he put them together.
Western Washington University senior distance runner Sarah Porter has been named NCAA Division II West Region female Athlete of the Year by the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association.
The Hockinson High School gradaute, two-time Great Northwest Athletic Conference champion in the indoor 5,000, ranks second in Division II in the event with a time of 16 minutes, 11.98 seconds.
Western Washington University women's basketball guard Amanda Dunbar has been named a first-team Daktronics West Region all-star for the second straight year.
A senior from Marysville where she graduated from Marysville-Pilchuck High School, Dunbar was earlier picked as the Great Northwest Athletic Conference Player of the Year.
Dunbar is averaging a team-best 13.3 points per game and has had a team-high 22 double-figure scoring contests. She leads the GNAC in 3-point makes at 2.1 and is fourth in assists (4.0) and fifth in points.
Presidents from Washington’s universities came to Olympia today to tell lawmakers that the state’s four-year colleges will face dire consequences if they don’t get more funding from somewhere.
Tuition-setting authority, private investment and differential tuition in different undergraduate programs were among the strategies college administrators urged the Legislature to adopt in a House Higher Education Committee work session this morning.
“Frankly both you and we are in a pickle,” said Ralph Munro, a Trustee from Western Washington University speaking to Legislators during the meeting. “We have cut and we have cut and we have cut; I don’t want to see us go any further.”
As the state struggles to climb out of the Great Recession, Washington lawmakers are focusing on cutting back, consolidating and creating jobs.
Any proposal with a price tag attached is sure to receive extra scrutiny, and the catchphrase "get Washington working again" is everywhere.
Halfway through the 105-day session, legislators have approved stacks of bills aimed at trimming government spending, from requiring all counties to vote by mail instead of polling centers to ending the "retire-rehire" practice that has allowed several thousand state employees to earn both a paycheck and a pension.
Republican Sen. Joe Zarelli, R-Ridgefield, has introduced a bill calling for the Legislature to reject contracts Gov. Chris Gregoire has negotiated with state workers.
Zarelli is the ranking Republican on the Senate Ways and Means Committee and a key budget negotiator this year. One Democrat, Sen, Rodney Tom, D-Bellevue, also has signed on along with several Republicans.