In the Media
Higher-education supporters have formed another new group that aims to pressure the Legislature to be more generous with education funding.
Earlier this year, University of Washington alumni formed a group, UW Impact, to push for more funding for the university. Both Washington State University and Western Washington University are following suit with groups of their own.
Carrie Hite, a Woodway High School graduate, has returned to Edmonds to campaign for healthy lifestyles in the community as the city's new director of the Parks, Recreation & Cultural Services department. Her first day on the job was Jan. 10.
Cori Kauk arrived to handshakes, hugs and flowers to start in the top job at the Issaquah Food and Clothing Bank last week.
The former Bellingham Parks and Recreation Department recreation coordinator brings experience from pitching in at women’s shelters and counseling runaway teenagers — plus a master’s degree in executive nonprofit leadership — to the role.
Police identified 50-year-old John Roy Stacy of Port Orchard and 48-year-old Andrew Paul Ejde as the two deputies shot at the South Kitsap Walmart on Sunday at around 3:45 p.m.
They identified 38-year-old Krista Rae McDonald as the deputy who shot the gunman.
A new coalition embracing students, business leaders and educators has formed in a bid to stem plummeting state support for higher education, and soaring tuition at Washington colleges.
The College Promise Coalition warns that the latest round of cuts would result in a 50 percent decline in public support for higher education in just five years.
The Western Washington University men's basketball team's game against Seattle Pacific University on Wednesday, Jan. 26, will be televised live regionally on FSN Northwest.
Heart attack patients across the country may have a better chance of surviving and returning to their regular lives, thanks in part to research work done by Whatcom County paramedics.
Whatcom County was part of a multi-year national trial to test the benefits of using two devices - the ResQPump and ResQPod - during CPR. And according to the results from the study, which have been published in international medical journal The Lancet, patients who received CPR in conjunction with the two devices are 53 percent more likely to be discharged from the hospital with strong brain function.
The City of Everett, which had supported failed plans for a University of Washington branch campus in Snohomish County, is switching partners.
“I believe that the community deserves more and we need to start that effort today,” Everett Mayor Ray Stephanson said Thursday morning in a state of the city address to business leaders.
Stephanson said he's backing new legislation that would allow Washington State University to take over the University Center of North Puget Sound, a program that is based at Everett Community College.
Visionaries who believe a Port of Kitsap would help bring a higher level of economic development point to the Port of Bellingham as an example.
That countywide port district has a smaller population base than Kitsap — about 200,000 compared with 248,000 — but it has embarked on two giant economic development projects that hold promise of boosting Whatcom County into the future while preserving local identities.
Each week The Bellingham Herald takes a closer look at a business or construction project. This week: Rad Dog.
What it is: Rad Dog's goal is to help people and their dogs get outside and enjoy the outdoors. The company's most popular product, the Release N Run collar, has a retractable built-in leash that extends four feet and comes in four different neck sizes.