From neglected gargoyles to noise assaults perpetrated by the Navy, this year has been a doozy.

Here's what we learned about Pacific Northwest history from Crosscut's Knute Berger — and our readers — in 2019.

30 years in the making, plus $10.4M in marketing, the apple still isn’t for everyone — and that’s okay.

Here are just a few of the amazing things Washingtonians discovered in labs, in the field and elsewhere that you may have missed.

It's been an incredible year in Seattle and the Pacific Northwest. These stories started conversation, change, and awareness.

A report says the Spokane Valley Republican aided three armed conflicts against the U.S. government and ‘condoned political violence and intimidation.’ 

After recent declines, a new breeding program could help safeguard the cockle's future as a food source for tribes like the Suquamish.

The faults under Eastern Washington aren't as famous as the feared Cascadia Subduction Zone, but they still pose a threat to communities like Walla Walla, Tri-Cities and Yakima.

Climate models predict the Northwest will receive more annual precipitation, but less of it will fall as snow. That jeopardizes fish and farms during dry summer months. 

The Seattle writer gave Asian American journalists like me permission to aspire.

Two new books chronicle the history of local parks, the ‘breathing lungs and beating hearts’ of our city.

The region is poised to lead the way in electric flight thanks to an ambitious partnership between MagniX and Harbour Air.

With Washington's natural kelp beds declining, farms could fill an ecological niche and serve an emergent market. But barriers to entry remain high. 

Locals looked to dirigibles, blimps and airships long before Boeing landed.

Facing climate upheaval on Washington's coast, members of the Quinault tribe take to the sea in the canoes of their ancestors.