Feb. 18, 2026 | Abbi Duhart | News Editor With schools in Oregon continually facing budget cuts, the Salem-Keizer school district faces a $23 million budget deficit due to declining enrollment. Currently, the school district has 37,208 students enrolled, which is a...
Feb. 18, 2026 | Hannah Field | Editor-in-Chief Late Saturday night, Feb. 7, at approximately 10:15 p.m., anyone inside Ackerman Hall was evacuated following a call to Campus Public Safety that led to the arrival of multiple firetrucks and police presence. A small...
Feb. 11, 2026 | Abbi Duhart | News Editor During Fall term and the beginning of Winter term this school year, students living in Arbor Park reported seeing an orange and white cat wandering around the area. The cat was very friendly, meowing and nuzzling up against...
Feb. 11, 2026 | Abbi Duhart | News Editor Today, Valentine’s Day is a day about love, often celebrated by exchanging chocolate, flowers and gifts between partners and friends. Though there are concrete theories on the origins of Valentine’s Day, it’s hard to be sure...
Feb. 4, 2026 | Abbi Duhart | News Editor While Hamersly Library offers book checkouts for students like any other school library, they also offer many other services that students can take advantage of. Various spaces within the library are a good resource for...
Feb. 4, 2026 | Hannah Field | Editor-in-Chief On Jan. 29, 2026, the city of Monmouth held its quarterly town hall in the evening to discuss “freedoms of speech, assembly, and expression.” “We really want to talk about Monmouth and issues of the First Amendment, of...
Feb. 4, 2026 | Hannah Field | Editor-in-Chief Content warning: this article discusses genocide, death and the death of children On Oct. 7, 2023, the Islamist militant group governing the Gaza Strip, Hamas, launched an attack on Israel that killed more...
Feb. 4, 2026 | Abbi Duhart | News Editor On Jan. 21, various conservation organizations in Oregon, including Cascadia Wildlands, Oregon Wild and Umpqua Watersheds protested against the 42 Divide Forest Management Plan from the Bureau of Land Management and filed a...
Feb. 4, 2026 | Abbi Duhart | News Editor Not only are gray wolves a beloved animal by many, but they are also a keystone species, meaning their survival is crucial for the environments they live in. Gray wolves are a major predator in the habitats they live in,...
Feb. 4, 2026 | Jaylin Emond-Hardin | Entertainment Editor One of the best-known facts about Western is that the university has educated future teachers for generations. Western was founded in 1856 as Monmouth University, just three years after Monmouth was settled, by...
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