To learn how antibiotic-resistant bacteria jump from wildlife to livestock to pets to humans, researchers are collecting samples from a wide range of species — including those in the ocean.

A new series of maps is driving home that as things stand, some people may not have enough time to evacuate a Cascadia tsunami. 

As the region embarks on the first-ever Northwest festival of glass, artists hope to make the industry more sustainable.

In his new book, the writer faces blisters, bomb-sniffing dogs and life’s biggest questions.

On the edge of the North Cascades, fear dominated the conversation as hundreds gathered this week to debate grizzly bear reintroduction.

A mother shares the story of her son lost to suicide, while Native organizations work internally to fight the epidemic.

A unilateral reversal of Washington-specific water quality regulations is creating concern around human health and control of state waters.

After decades of court cases have rebuffed federal management, it may take a political fix to restore salmon in the Columbia Basin.

An Oregon author is exploring little-known chapters of the region's ugly, racist roots.

The museum's new home brings its researchers out of the basement, and delivers a love letter of fossils and artifacts to our region.

For 12 years, UW's Julian Olden has studied the native and invasive crayfish populations of Sammamish's Pine Lake. But the citizen scientists who live onshore are his secret weapon.

Physicists at Hanford's LIGO observatory have been watching black holes for years. But a recent discovery of an unseen black hole collision is an astronomical first.

Raising kids to love the outdoors is a mixed bag when you know our planet's future is dire. But it can be a radical act of hope.

The Ice Age has given way to a fire age. A historian of fire weighs in on its power and peril.

When Bill Austin started as a fire lookout, he was one of three watching over the Methow Valley. Today he's the last one.