Local News

This week’s news featured nudity, music and marijuana. Seems only fitting for a week that included both Folklife and Sasquatch!

A bear cub was spotted in Rainier View Park in Monroe Tuesday afternoon, according to the Monroe Police Department. A Puget Sound Energy worker saw the cub at the intersection of Rainier View Road and Chain Lake Road running across the children’s playground. The cub then climbed over a chain-link fence into a wooded area….

Will there be more wolf killings in our state? That’s the question being asked in an Associated Press story by Phuong Le. The controversy continues after the lead wolf of the Wedge pack was killed after time and again attacking a rancher’s cattle. Here’s an earlier story by Seattle Times…

The Associated Press ISSAQUAH –  Black bear sightings aren’t unusual in east Seattle suburbs such as Issaquah but the sight of an adult bear and three cubs rambling across the campus of an elementary school prompted a brief lockdown. Officials at Issaquah Valley Elementary School alerted police and the Washington state Department of Fish and Wildlife when…

The Associated Press PORT ORCHARD – Hidden Creek Elementary School in Port Orchard is telling parents not to let children walk to or from school while a big bear may be in nearby woods. South Kitsap School District spokeswoman Lisa Kirkemo says parents should drive their children, if they don’t take the bus. The school went into a…