As weeks turn into months, Washingtonians try to make sense of the pandemic. Every walk of life has been upended by COVID-19, and as cases continue to multiply, we have tried to learn how to adjust. We've faced changes to rituals, celebrations, work and play. Elections and another national reckoning with institutionalized racism merged together with the health crisis to present unprecedented challenges, isolation and adjustments.

For years, marine mammal responders have operated without easy access to a crucial facility. But in September, that changes.

Will orca Tahlequah’s second calf stand a better chance than the first? Here’s what pregnant orcas and their calves are up against in Puget Sound.

Molecular virologist Dr. Jesse Erasmus is part of a team at UW Medicine aiding the global effort to find a COVID-19 vaccine. The team works around the clock in the race to produce an effective vaccine at record speed, trying to do in under a year what normally can take an average of 10 to 20 years. For Erasmus, focusing on a solution is a way of coping as the world shifts around him.

Wolverines return to Mt. Rainier for the first time in 100 years. Biologists are ‘cautiously optimistic’ about the future of these tenacious mammals south of I-90.