Readers ask: Can I get elective surgery? Is my bike commute safe? Should fish tank cleaners come into my home?

A new column from Crosscut Opinion will track the economic consequences of the coronavirus pandemic.

With 100-year floods occurring twice a decade, a dam could offer relief — or endanger salmon and ecosystems.

As the pandemic emboldens bigotry, Monyee Chau tells her neighborhood: “We will survive this too.”

Journalism, like schools, libraries and utilities, is a public good. Let's support it just the same.

This Changes Everything host Sara Bernard focuses each show on a different aspect of life, and how we now have to navigate through it without a road map.

As COVID-19 continues claiming lives, many workers remain vulnerable to exposure. Will they fight back by withholding their labor?

Western State Hospital has mostly stopped accepting jail transfers, leaving inmates with mental illness in limbo.

S’Klallam artist Jeffrey Veregge imagines ‘A Better Tomorrow’ for us all.

How are you planning birthdays, graduations, funerals and other important events during coronavirus?

Seattle and King County are strongly encouraging people to wear masks in grocery stores and other public spaces to help stop COVID-19 transmission.

Students in Palouse, veterans on Whidbey Island, and seniors in Seattle are worse off without it.

The Elliott Bay Fishing Pier was a diverse hub where locals connected with surrounding nature. Will it ever come back?

Business owners in the area say they won’t see the full impact of the bridge’s closure until the stay-at-home order is lifted.

The state's communities of color now account for larger share of positive tests, due to slow testing, exposure at work and other factors. 

King County Republicans used to dominate the suburbs. That era is over.

Escaping a racist Oregon law, a man named George Bush became one of Washington’s most important homesteaders.

Cross-laminated timber building could help fight climate change. But its threat to ecosystems could make it a mixed blessing.

Art can shift our thinking, even when making it isn’t our forte.

A reader asks: Can my band go to the recording studio together if we practice social distancing?