A peak example of why I love my job. Border agent: Why are you coming to Canada? Me: I’m a journalist and I am curious what will happen with the new tariffs and effect if I bring this gallon of milk and ice cream across the border. … 
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My latest enragement from the AI-ification of Adobe products: When you launch Photoshop it opens to a page of most recently AI-generated images instead of most recently opened projects. Anybody know if there's a way to change it??
First-generation farmers do not inherit a legacy including land, resources and a customer base. Instead, they build a business from the ground up — doing the laborious work of farmworkers while juggling operations and struggling to turn a profit.
One month, seven World Cup matches, 30,918 photos and 21 stories: CDN visual journalist Finn Wendt reflects on chasing the tournament up and down I-5.
CDN photographer reflects on monthlong World Cup coverage | Cascadia Daily News
Seven games, 30K photos and the experience of a lifetime
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New from me: A Blaine mother has spent more than a decade trying to find support for her son who has serious behavioral health challenges. She hit a breaking point in 2024, when she went to the courthouse and declared herself an unfit parent, after exhausting available behavioral health supports.
When WA's behavioral health system failed her son, Blaine mom declared herself an unfit parent | Cascadia Daily News
A mother's experience with 'cycle of insufficient care' for troubled children in Washington
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It’s been the assignment of a lifetime photographing the World Cup from the sidelines this week, if you’ve not seen the stellar reporting from veteran WC reporter Elliott Almond, here it is served up just for you: www.cascadiadaily.com/category/spo...
Nearly nine months since I first hit record at the Blackhawks’ first practice, the first episode of Respect the Rez is now live on YouTube. We’ve held four screenings and its reception has blown away my expectations and then some, now I’m excited for it to be available to anyone, anywhere for free.
PART 1 | Respect the Rez: Inside the Lummi Blackhawks' Title-or-Bust Season
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Our community tells us daily they need our journalism. The newsroom needs your continued support. We remain ardent in our ethics and approach to hyper-local news, Managing Editor Audra Anderson writes.
In tumultuous time, the newsroom reaffirms its mission | Cascadia Daily News
CDN staff remain ardent in their ethics and approach to hyper-local news
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CDN's 40-minute documentary series about the Lummi Nation boys basketball team will be publicly available on YouTube starting June 8, and tickets for a third local screening at the Pickford are available now.
CDN documentary series ‘Respect the Rez’ to debut online | Cascadia Daily News
Tickets on sale for additional public screening at Pickford Film Center on June 20
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Caught fully prone on the links yesterday, courtesy of sports editor Nick Zeller-Singh
I just jumped from my desk and sprinted down to Roeder Avenue in Bellingham to find out more about what we heard was a train derailment. While there was a derailed train, it was not quite what I had imagined. Thankfully, the engine was only a few inches from the rail.
Oh yeah don’t mind us, just tag-teaming to bring you total I-5 landslide coverage domination. Props to @annietodd.bsky.social @finnwendt.com and @sophia-gates.bsky.social
Cascadia Daily News@cascadiadaily.com · 6mo agoDrivers going into Bellingham continue to navigate congested traffic due to the landslide late last week. Here's what the city and transportation department are doing.
A 5-year-old Bellingham resident wants to throw away nuclear weapons. Find his letter and other fiery opinions on a wide array of issues from engaged NW WA readers in CDN's weekly letters section.
Letters, Week of March 18, 2026: Nuclear weapons, ACP, clock alignment | Cascadia Daily News
Send letters, maximum 250 words, to letters@cascadiadaily.com
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Lummi Nation girls basketball equaled its best finish ever at state in a 54-45 victory over Pateros to place fourth at the 1B tournament Saturday in Spokane.
Lummi girls basketball ties for highest finish in program history | Cascadia Daily News
Blackhawks beat Pateros to place fourth for the second time school history
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Love Mike Tirico but why is he delivering an opening monologue for the opening ceremony from the Super Bowl 😭
What if the Seahawks are really a million geoducks in a trench coat?
It’s not everyday I end up writing a little in the living section, a fun piece from the whole staff:
CDN staff's favorite albums we heard this year | Cascadia Daily News
We reflect on the best new (and new-to-us) media from 2025
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Solano Rivera won nearly 60% of a school board vote in November, unseating incumbent member Wendy Ragusa, who had held the role for eight years. At 19 years old, Rivera is the youngest member on the Mount Vernon school board.
🚨 Skagit County drone pilots: FAA issued a TFR between Sedro-Woolley and Rockport along Hwy 20 and the Skagit River. Do not fly there as the airspace is reserved for first responders.
A murky Skagit River from above today near Hamilton. See live flood coverage here for these next few days: www.cascadiadaily.com/2025/dec/09/...
Earlier today reports circulated of ICE agents at Skagit Valley College. I walked the campus myself and an SVC security guard told me around 2:00 they got a call about possible ICE activity but could not find any evidence. It is unclear what prompted the reports but it appears to be a false alarm.
Yesterday was Bellingham Food Bank’s busiest day ever.
Needs rising as food banks face funding cuts, higher prices and SNAP uncertainty | Cascadia Daily News
Food banks in Whatcom are still regrouping after cuts to federal funding earlier this year
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With the NFL trade deadline and election night both falling on my birthday, today will be my journalism Super Bowl
Mount Baker towers over Bellingham yesterday as seen from Lummi Shore Road.
All things end. Including, now, deadlines. After more than three years, I'm ending my regular business contributions to Cascadia Daily News. It's been a good run. And worthy of a brief essay for a Frank assessment of business in #Whatcom and #Skagit counties. Thank you, CDN. Because #journalism.
After 13 quarters, a business columnist closes the books | Cascadia Daily News
CDN contributor Frank Catalano’s departing observations
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🧵I was introduced to Dr. Nicholas Muff because he is a world-class railroad modeler. He is elite. No detail is too small. One day when I was visiting, he was planting sugarcane stalks smaller than a toothpick -- one at a time -- along a stretch of his HO-scale Kansas City Southern Railroad tracks.
Community members, including Whatcom County Executive Satpal Sidhu, right, gather for a photo at the Arch of Healing and Reconciliation sculpture to commemorate the 118th anniversary of the Bellingham Riot of 1907.
Back in mid-July, @cascadiadaily.com got emails and voicemails about low flying helicopters over neighborhoods. Even my editor's house got buzzed.
