By studying how Indigenous societies use fire, ecologist Ernesto Alvarado is learning how we can fight wildfires.

The Pacific Coast’s only indigenous oyster, the Olympia, was eaten into near-extinction. It could be making a comeback.

Testing and forensic tracing of COVID-19 could have slowed the pandemic in its earliest days. But by the time anyone noticed, it was too late.

An aerospace engineering professor uses origami to inspire effective design.

Washington gardeners are growing food in P-Patches and backyards to boost morale and community food supplies.

Agencies that prepare for wildfires and recruit firefighters are busy responding to the pandemic. That could be a problem come summer.

Inslee’s order makes exceptions for outdoor activities. But packed trails and at-risk rural communities suggest hikers should stay close to home. 

Washington leaders and the public are frustrated with those who aren't taking health guidelines seriously.

When it comes to life without parole sentences, the state is a global outlier.

In the moment a star dies, astronomer Emily Levesque can see how time, space and the universe all work.

100 years after the 19th Amendment granted women the vote, meet the Pacific Northwest activists who ignited the effort.

If Dr. Deborah Fuller’s moonshot method is successful, she and a team could deliver a coronavirus vaccine months earlier than other methods.

The suit, filed by the ACLU and Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, calls for the immediate release of detainees in Tacoma.

Washington chose a specific figure, but experts say "there is no magic number."

Asian Americans in Seattle and elsewhere say they are increasingly being harassed and blamed for the COVID-19 outbreak.