''Cascadia Daily News'' is a digital daily and print

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published in

Bellingham, Washington Bellingham ( ) is the most populous city in, and county seat of Whatcom County in the U.S. state of Washington. It lies south of the U.S.–Canada border in between two major cities of the Pacific Northwest: Vancouver, British Columbia (locat ...

, United States. It was founded on January 24, 2022, as the successor to the ''

Cascadia Weekly ''Cascadia Weekly'' was an alternative weekly newspaper based in Bellingham, Washington. Its reporting covers the northwest border region between the United States and Canada, spanning Whatcom County and Skagit County Skagit County is a county ...

'', and features daily news stories on its website. The newspaper is independent and locally owned, competing with the ''

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'' in the

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market.

History

The ''Cascadia Daily News'' launched on January 24, 2022, under the ownership of businessman David Syre and management of Ron Judd, a former ''

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'' columnist. It is the successor to the ''Cascadia Weekly'', a local

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newspaper published in Bellingham. Syre stated that the new publication would provide deeper coverage than the existing ''Bellingham Herald'', which is owned by

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and had pared back its local news coverage.

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