Sally Garcia Acosta shows her son Daniel, 3, photos of his sister. Maria Rosario Perez died from anencephaly, which is affecting three Eastern Washington counties at four times the national average.

Catherine Andrews of Coupeville collects water samples from her well to be tested by an environmental group concerned about the Navy's limited response to the discovery of contamination by...

A 20-foot by 20-foot hole in the roof of a storage tunnel at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation near Richland, Wash., Tuesday, May 9, 2017. An emergency was declared Tuesday after the partial collapse of...

The Tesoro Refinery on Fidalgo Bay by Anacortes

Prof bites back at WSU over wolf story

Volunteers Paul Savino and Paul Savino, Sr. work on repairs.

State Rep. Liz Pike was hard at work, baking cookies. Ninety-eight cookies to be precise — one for each member of the Washington House of Representatives.

The Space Needle and the now defunct stacks at the Nucor Steel plant

A Navajo Hotshot firefighter battles the 2013 West Mullan Fire in the Lolo National Forest in Montana.

When I’m 90, I’ll probably still be haunted by memories of bins overflowing with the remnants of hiking snacks and thinly wrapped dog turds, left to bake for a week in black plastic bags.

Fishing in the Skykomish River

Anacortes is the site of several refineries that could be affected by a carbon tax.

An expanded Trans Mountain oil pipeline could carry 890,000 barrels of crude a day, more than the controversial Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines.

A February march in Washington, D.C.

Oregon and Washington are expecting to receive around $185 million to spend on replacing old diesel engines through a settlement with the automaker Volkswagen.