Journalism Department

Western Washington University professors hosted a discussion about the history and politics in “Boys in the Boat,” the Western Reads book for this school year that was recently selected as the book for Whatcom Reads.
Professors Kevin Leonard, Sheila Webb and Cornelius Partsch, from the…

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I'm The Oregonian's new Clackamas County reporter.

I studied news-editorial and visual journalism, political science and Spanish at Western Washington University, then started working for The Oregonian as a summer intern in June 2014. Since then I have…

“The Western part of the Territory appears to the people of this valley like some foreign land, and it is about as little talked of or thought of by them as is the Chinese empire,” an Eastern Washington editor opined, perhaps in reaction to the idea advanced last week by five Republicans from…

To the Editor:

In the 1979 Progressive magazine case cited by Martin London, the issue of how to build a hydrogen bomb became moot because another publication published similar information and the government’s case against the magazine was dropped. No evidence shows that anyone built a…

Local author William Dietrich will sign copies of his latest book, “The Murder of Adam and Eve,” from noon to 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 31, at the Burlington Costco, 1725 South Burlington Boulevard, Burlington.

A recent request by the Lummi Nation to halt a federal permit review of the Gateway Pacific Terminal in Bellingham, Wash., sets an important legal marker in the debate over coal exports, according to legal observers and analysts.

The tribe, in a Monday letter to the U.S. Army Corps of…

Charles Luckmann, Tim Pilgrim and Paul Piper share poems from their book, “Bellingham Poems,” at 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 14, at Village Books, 1200 11th St.

Whether it’s a peek at Clayton Beach’s naked sunbathers or the aroma of poached salmon and ancient stories found in Salish baskets, “…

Developers of two giant coal-export terminals proposed in Washington “are facing severe headwinds” in a volatile global energy economy, a nationally-known consultant on the economics of coal said Wednesday in Seattle.