There have been problems with a project to add drainage in a Ballard neighborhood that already had sidewalks.

The famous Japanese artist Hokusai made this wave print in the 19th century. Japanese records helped date a 1700 tsunami that struck the Pacific Northwest.

Children at the Prospect Enrichment Pre-school dig into healthy local foods.

A memorial to the people at Chernobyl who sacrificed their own safety to protect the world from greater danger.

A gray wolf in Pend Oreille County, Washington.

The summer farmers market in Pioneer Square.

An orca off Cherry Point

Engineers check the Howard Hanson Dam in March 2009.

Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station, as pictured on the Tokyo Electric Power Co. site.

Geologist Brian Atwater collects soil showing evidence of a tsunami hitting Discovery Bay in 1700.

After delivering food to its nestlings, a Lewis’s Woodpecker squeezes out of its cavity in a Garry oak snag.

UW researchers deploy the Sea Spider in Admiralty Inlet.

The Cascadia Center project, near the intersection of E. Madison and E. Pike streets, includes a proposal to restore McGilvra Place into inviting neighborhood green space and a demonstration site for...