By now it is apparent that, barring a miracle, a cure for COVID-19 will not happen soon; however, to make it a condition of removing the economic lockdown would be a catastrophic mistake. They must coexist.

On the blue sky morning of Sunday, May 18, 1980, a convoy of property owners was getting ready to head up to the mountain to retrieve their belongings from cabins in the danger zone. 

On April 16, as the coronavirus attacked communities across Washington, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it is rolling back our water quality standards that are the most protective of human health in the country.

Last week, the Nisqually Valley News relocated its offices from the pristine quarters provided by the fine owners of the Northeast Plaza Drive Southeast office where we’ve operated for about a decade to a new location about a football field or two away on Creek Street. 

“Vancouver, Vancouver, this is it!”

This week we celebrated our 350 teachers and school nurses in Yelm Community Schools.  That celebration has taken on a much different meaning since schools were closed on March 13. We are so proud of our teachers and nurses for their remarkable efforts to support 5,800 students and families …

One of the many challenges during the pandemic is that I easily get caught up in the statistics: the number of new cases of COVID-19, and the number of deaths locally, nationally and internationally. The math is difficult for me to embrace. I care much more about people.

Our state is blessed with some of the most creative people and businesses in the world. Many of their innovations are making key differences during this COVID-19 pandemic, and as our devastated economy recovers, there will be greater creative opportunities.

Treaty tribes are encouraged by cooperative efforts with federal and state natural resources managers and others to monitor and stem the invasion of the European green crab across western Washington.