SPOKANE, Wash. – Canada Island in Riverfront Park will now be known as snxʷ meneʔ. The new name is salish and means Salmon people. It is pronounced, “Sin-hoo-men-huh.” snxʷ meneʔ was one of two ...

PORT TOWNSEND, Wash. (AP) — Former Port Townsend, Washington, resident Ian Hinkle hopes his film "Reaching Blue" stirs discussion on climate change. "For a lot of people, discussions of climate change ...

Coast Salish peoples bred a dog with thick fur to spin into yarn, which was lost to colonisers. Now, the possibility of its genetic remains persisting presents new hope for its return It took the ...

In the frigid waters of Canada’s Salish Sea, close to the mouth of Bute Inlet, a female humpback whale and her calf point their knobbly flippers skyward in perfect synchronicity, before slowly sliding ...

Despite overwhelming opposition from British Columbia, Washington state, and tribes, counties and cities on both sides of the border, plus strong evidence that the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion ...

Let’s argue Gov. Inslee’s case underwater. Since 2000, I have scuba dived thousands of Salish Sea hours. More than once, I have surfaced in the middle of an oil slick. Face it. Beginning with the 1991 ...

DUNCAN, BC, March 17, 2026 /CNW/ - Cowichan Tribes, Parks Canada, and the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada will hold a plaque unveiling ceremony to commemorate the historic significance of ...

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