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All by yourself? Savor it. A new study shows that being single might help you look better in those skinny jeans.

Those who live without a romantic partner are more likely to have a lower body weight than people who live with a significant other, according to a study published in the…

Score one for the singles crowd.

People who live alone tend to be thinner than married couples or co-habiters, according to research out of Western Washington University.

But the difference is, well, slim. On average, single people weighed about three pounds less than their coupled…

Considering moving in with your girlfriend or boyfriend? Er, a new study may have you thinking twice. It found that people who live alone tend to have lower body weights than those who live with a partner.

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Although employment is up across the San Juan Islands and the economy seems to be rebounding, residents still face stagnant wages while the price of everything from rent to groceries is increasing.

That was the message in a recent report by the San Juan County…

Western Washington University’s Border Policy Research Institute is involved in a two-year project researching the movement of freight across the U.S.-Canada border at the Sumas, Lynden and Blaine truck crossings.

The project with the Whatcom Council of Governments involves Western…

Although employment is up across the San Juan Islands, and the economy seems to be rebounding, residents still face stagnant wages while the price of everything from rent to groceries is increasing.

That was the message in a recent report by the San Juan County Economic Development…

If you want to go to college to learn how to design, build, fly or fix a drone, your time has come. Many institutions of higher learning around the Northwest are recognizing that unmanned aircraft could become a key technology of the future.
But the murky and evolving regulations for drone…

"People fail to become aware of things around them that they would otherwise notice," Ira Hyman told Mic. Hyman, a professor of psychology at Western Washington University, researches our relationships with technology, including inattentional blindness in college students who use their…