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About Us - Salish Current
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 ...
What’s next for the environment in Northwest Washington?
11 hours ago · The upcoming presidential term coincides with some of the last years we have to rapidly draw down greenhouse gas emissions and avoid global warming of 2.0℃ or more. Deadly floods, storms, droughts, heatwaves and wildfires are already here, and now time to meaningfully limit the severity of the destruction is running out.
Flooding on the border: Three years and waiting - Salish Current
Oct 15, 2024 · 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 ...
‘It's our identity, our culture, our everything’ - Salish Current
Nov 6, 2024 · Everything points back to salmon. It’s our identity, our culture, our everything.”. 2024 is the 50th anniversary of U.S. District Court Judge George H. Boldt’s ruling upholding the fishing rights of tribal nations that signed treaties in 1854–55 by which the U.S. obtained land for its expansion into the Pacific Northwest.
Newsletter - Salish Current
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
Signs of a hidden threat: preparing for the really big one
Sep 6, 2023 · The signs and attention are meant to prepare people, especially visitors, for the certainty of a tsunami, if not the precise timing and magnitude of it. But at times, fatalism settles in. Rusk said, “If the tsunami comes, then maybe it was sort of meant to be.”. Still, making a plan is smart. Ray has an informal one.
Events - Salish Current
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.
Islanders grapple with concerns over a finite resource: water
Aug 18, 2022 · 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 ...