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

Yakima officials say they have to cooperate with ICE, fearing loss of federal funding for the city-run airport. Cities around Puget Sound don't seem to have those fears.

In Washington, coastal tribes have long labored to relocate. Potential access to federal aid could be the key to mitigating climate disaster.

The Crosscut Courage Award-winning judge seeks justice for all.

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

Opponents of Referendum 88 say it would institute numeric, race-based quotas in Washington state. The U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled such practices illegal.

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.

Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson sued the Trump administration after it pulled $89 million slated for a new submarine pier and maintenance facility at Naval Base Kitsap.

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.

Once dominant on the landscape, Washington has lost most of its shrub-steppe ecosystem. But a new land acquisition could help the flora and fauna that rely on it survive.

The measure, which Washington state voters will decide on in November, also has the support of many veterans groups.

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

After over a century of fire suppression, the U.S. Forest Service is using prescribed burns as a way to reduce the risk of megafires.

As wildfires become more common, Washington firefighters are creating support networks for their communities to deal with the mental trauma.

A visit to the site of the Norse Peak fire — the worst in Western Washington since the Yacolt Burn of 1902 — reveals both the promise and limits of human forest management.