Sweet Genovese basil

For onlookers watching the ongoing development of a proposed natural gas terminal in Coos Bay, Ore., it seemed a puzzling business strategy. Why would energy companies want to spend billions of...

Smoke coming from fireplaces and wood stoves has been linked to a host of health effects including heart attacks, strokes, high blood pressure and asthma attacks. Wood stoves that are more than 20...

Amtrak passengers were transferred to buses after a 2010 slide near Edmonds disrupted train service between Seattle and Everett.

Purse seining on the Columbia.

The totem pole in Pioneer Square

A coal-powered generating plant in China.

Seattle City Councilmembers take on the plastic bag industry.

Pacific herring

A mountain goat that the photographer believes was probably the one involved in the death of Robert Boardman.

Part of the Hanford site where a glassification, or vitrification, plant is being constructed

Clovis spear points

Cindy Myers (left) and Connie Weichman (right) on the Weichman family ranch near Stuart, Neb. Ranchers were the key to changing the route of the Keystone XL pipeline, but they say they aren't finished...

Lake Washington: State officials at first thought a tanker spill had led some gasoline to reach the lake but later said there was no evidence that had happened.

Seattle City Councilmembers take on the plastic bag industry.