Weekly claims for unemployment benefits dropped ... Even though claims have declined steadily since September – dropping to an initial 52-year low in November – the holiday season, starting ...

Editor-publisher Don Russell had spent the past year trying to sell the state’s oldest weekly newspaper with no luck. He is planning to retire by the middle of January, at which point ...

This deadline is a permanent one. "This is the last issue I'm publishing of the La Conner Weekly News under my ownership," says Stern. The La Conner Weekly News has informed people in the tiny ...