Restorative justice emphasizes accountability and healing instead of punishment. All our youth deserve it.

As the documentary Dammed to Extinction tours the Northwest, its filmmakers argue time isn't up for orcas or salmon if we act now.

The ambitious plan is viewed as a first step, with advocates pushing for a follow-up.

For the Umatilla and Yakama, the 42,000-acre fire in Hanford Reach National Monument razed a living history book full of Native artifacts and resources.

Once quaint, Seafair has become noisy, wasteful and inequitable. In this era of change, it's time for it to fly away.

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To cut emissions from Seattle's top polluter — transportation — the mayor must go far beyond what she's done thus far to overhaul how the city gets around.

Soon the Northwest will experience the same heatwaves as the rest of the country — which puts children, the elderly and farmworkers at risk.

The Washington state governor has run a one-issue campaign and is paying the price for it.

After more than 300 homes burned in 2014, locals are getting "fire wise" with construction.

Our bummer summer has an upside for Washington's parched farmers. But rural communities are still bracing for drier summers ahead.

The plant would be bad for the environment, and the Chinese-backed company responsible for it has not been a forthright corporate citizen.

Summers of fire and smoke are forcing some Eastern Washington families to live with disaster. But local students are marching for a future when they won't have to.

Tussock moth caterpillars are stripping fir trees throughout the state. To keep our trees healthy, the Forest Service is fighting back with a spray-on virus straight out of sci-fi.

“The Smoke Season” joins the city’s abundance of towering tree art.