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The Salish Current is a nonpartisan, nonprofit, online local news organization serving Whatcom, San Juan and Skagit counties. Based in Bellingham, we serve 400,000 residents and tens of thousands of annual visitors to the three-county area. Our region is the ancestral home of Native treaty tribes including the Lummi, Nooksack, Samish, Sauk ...
Flooding on the border: Three years and waiting - Salish Current
5 days ago · It has been nearly three years since floodwaters from the Nooksack and Fraser rivers devastated communities and farmland on both sides of the international border around Sumas and Abbotsford, British Columbia. It was the latest and most destructive in a history of cross-border flooding. Since then, local, regional and tribal representatives ...
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See Salish Current archived newsletters here. More to read from our nonprofit news partners. Crosscut / Cascade PBS: Independent, reader-supported, nonprofit news for the Pacific Northwest ICT News: Independent, nonprofit, multimedia news covering Indigenous peoples InvestigateWest: Dedicated to change-making investigative journalism for the Pacific Northwest
‘Historic’ Samish Nation housing is part of a return to ancestral land
Jun 17, 2024 · For Marilyn Howard, the bright two-bedroom cottage appointed with Coast Salish décor is much more than a new, low-cost place to live. It’s a return home to ancestral land. Howard, a Samish woman who’s spent most of her life in Bellingham, is the first resident of Xwch’ángteng (whuh-CH-ang-tun), a neighborhood of 14 homes and a community ...
Events - Salish Current
Mar 17, 2022 · Current Affairs 2024 Speaker Series. Truth, Trust and the News 2023: “Calling Bullshit “. Sponsored by Salish Current, Western Washington University’s Ralph Munro Institute for Civic Education and Whatcom Community College, in partnership with Village Books; April 13, 2023. Watch the video [talk begins at 25.30]. Read the book review.
2021: A look back at some stories from the first full year of Salish ...
Dec 31, 2021 · 2021 was a year like no other, with themes such as public health vis-à-vis COVID-19 and opioid addiction; social justice in the courts, the arts, housing and policing; and climate change and natural resources including water rights management. Salish Current offers a look back via articles published during the nonprofit newsroom's first full year.
Keep our waterfronts working - Salish Current
Oct 10, 2023 · More to read from our nonprofit news partners. Crosscut / Cascade PBS: Independent, reader-supported, nonprofit news for the Pacific Northwest ICT News: Independent, nonprofit, multimedia news covering Indigenous peoples InvestigateWest: Dedicated to change-making investigative journalism for the Pacific Northwest KMRE-FM Kulshan Community Media: Listener-supported community radio for ...
Have enough water? San Juan prepares to find out, with USGS study
Jul 21, 2021 · That survey was completed in 2002, when the county’s year-round population stood at 14,077, and was based on field work done in 1997 and 1998. “The total cost of the [new] study for San Juan County is $150,000, with USGS providing a share of $58,000,” said environmental health specialist Ethan Schmidt. The county has had some extra time ...
Rising seas force adaptation to climate change - Salish Current
Jan 12, 2024 · SeaLevelRise.org and Washington Sea Grant predict the sea level will rise in the San Juan Island six more inches by 2050 and two feet by 2100. Photographs of a historic structure at San Juan Island National Park’s English Camp — historically a Coast Salish village known as Pe’pi’ow’elh — seem to confirm rising sea levels there.