The mayor's job is to chart a course that ends in a future city we all want to inhabit. To get there, she needs to lead a transportation revolution.

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

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

Hops farmers are pursuing a sustainable certification meant to save salmon. But are beer drinkers willing to pay more for sustainable practices?

Nonprofit advocates think sea pens will improve the retired killer whales' quality of life. SeaWorld vets disagree.

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

Salmon-rich Bristol Bay is a cornerstone of Washington's seafood industry. But many say a mine 20 years in the making could threaten all of it. 

It is time we consider a new dedicated, reliable, equitable and adequate funding source for salmon and killer whale recovery.

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

The copper-based paint repels barnacles — but it could add up to a larger environmental cost.

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.

Self-taught programmer Alejandra Quetzalli founded sheCodesNow to give more people a safe space to break into tech.

A new book argues for a sea change in the way our culture views older women.

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.

Kerry Accola's innovative sonar approach to field research is helping scientists analyze endangered salmon swimming by the city at night.