Members of the Washington and Oregon fish and wildlife commissions will meet soon to deliberate on salmon management reforms on river Columbia. The meeting will take place on January 17, 2019, from 11 am to 5 pm in the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission Room, 4034 Fairview Industrial Dr. S.E. in Salem, Oregon stated the […]
Five people were arrested in downtown Seattle during protests against access to land for setting up pipeline on Friday afternoon. Around 100 demonstrators had blocked the street to support Wet’suwet’en Nation, a First Nations community in British Columbia in Canada. The community is against the court injunction that allowed a pipeline company access to their […]
Zipping down the interstate or any highway, if you chance upon a sign that says 419.9, don’t get confused, just be amused. This ingenious and creative idea struck the transport agency after all its efforts failed to deter miscreants from stealing signs marked with numbers 69 and 420. For years, motorists have been complaining about […]
No, we don’t wish for you to be sleep deprived! The pun on the words of the famous Tom Hanks-Meg Ryan starrer (Sleepless in Seattle) was our way to implore you to explore what is Washington State’s largest as also a seaport city surrounded by nature and home to tech giants Microsoft and Amazon. If […]
The federal appeals court upheld a lawsuit against Washington State filed by a missing Utah woman’s family on Thursday. The woman, Susan Cox, was reported to have been missing for the last nine years. A lower court had dismissed Judy and Charles Cox’s civil lawsuit against Washington’s Department of Children, Youth, and Families over the […]
A wild seal, believed to be Guadalupe Fur Seal, was found trapped in a fishing net on the shore by a beachgoer was rescued by two Ocean Shores police officers on Monday. Tagged under threatened species, this beach seal is said to be rare to the northwest and is commonly found off the coast of […]
She was sexually abused by an Oregon fisherman in 2015. Now, in 2019, her perpetrator has been awarded life sentence of over 13 years. A jury had convicted Dennis Lee Sturgell (66) in November on four counts of first-degree sodomy, two counts of first-degree unlawful sexual penetration and one count of second-degree sex abuse. The […]
Ronald Buchanan has been named the new chief information security officer in Washington, the state announced in a recent press release. As state CISO, Buchanan will oversee the state Office of CyberSecurity. He takes over from acting state CISO Scott Bream who has been serving since July 2018. Before Bream, it was Agnes Kirk who […]
With no end to the partial government shutdown in sight, the Washington State Employee Security Department (ESD) has come to the rescue of furloughed federal workers. In a press release, the department stated that furloughed workers might apply for unemployment benefits even as they wait to return to their jobs. These benefits may help them […]
As President Donald Trump addressed the nation from the Oval Office for the first time, lawmakers from across the state minced no words in what they thought about it. The primetime address saw Trump argue for funding the long-promised southern border wall, this when there was an extended partial government shutdown. “It is time for […]
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