35 dogs, flown by Wings of Rescue, arrived from San Antonio Animal Services and the Animal Defense League at Boeing Field in Seattle, Wash on August 30, 2017. ...

A Muslim PhD student gets targeted as a security risk; now he wants to know why.

Monday’s solar eclipse atop Oregon’s high desert started at sunrise, when thousands of eclipse hunters including myself looked to the west with concern, noticing the tinge of smoke that filled the sky...

Kim Le mourns her grandson Tommy Le in front of his urn of ashes at Co Lam Pagoda Buddhist Temple in Seattle on Sunday, August 6, 2017. The 20-year-old Vietnamese-American man was shot and killed by...

After a week on the road looking to reconnect in a divided state, Knute Berger learns that to forge more productive politics it’s best to find some common ground. Showing up helps.

An innocent detour near Davenport to learn about the death of an Old West outlaw turned into adventure as a cattleman’s warning about wildfires turned into the real thing. What we heard and saw taught...

On the Waterville Plateau, we learn about the power of power, and of water, open space and brilliant nights that city folk seldom see. This landscape was shaped by titanic forces; it can, in turn...

Since the 1890s the Mathison family has farmed the Wenatchee hills. They’ve built an operation that supplies tree fruit to the nation. We went into the Mathison’s high-tech packing plant and its...

Tourists know Cashmere as a place to buy tasty treats from Eastern Washington orchards, but beyond its visitor facade, the area is also facing housing challenges. We visit a new project that offers...

Mossback learns the Skykomish Valley has an unusual number of Obama/Trump voters and that a new industry is emerging in the ruins of an older one. It involves growing green stuff.

Ever since the November election and Donald Trump’s win, the Cascade divide has seemed bigger than ever. What are folks on the other side of the Cascade Curtain thinking? Crosscut felt it was time to...

Pallbearers carry out Charleena Lyles' casket on Monday, July 10, 2017 at New Hope Missionary Baptist Church.

Esteban Camacho Steffensen is seen painting birds high on Seven Seas Brewing's building from a cherry picker. The 19,200 sq. ft. mural is one of the largest of its kind in Tacoma.

On a recent sunny weekend, I was standing in Discovery Park with two of the people most responsible for the existence of this gem of the Seattle park system.

The Cascadia Rising drill, in which state planners and response agencies attempted to refine response plans for a massive earthquake.