The Northwest is itself overdue for a megaquake — one we are ready for on neither a personal nor political level.

As Colorado marks its 149th birthday Friday — and the nation nears its 250th — Susan Schulten steps into the role of State ...

Olympia oysters, a raindrop-shaped oyster no longer than a golf ball, used to take up an estimated 20,000 acres across Puget ...

Reality is setting in with local fiber artists about the loss of selection and access to yarns and other sewing supplies following the closure of JoAnn fabrics. But, for many years, privately-owned, ...

Pierce County could see decreased air quality for portions of the next two days due to smoke from the Bear Gulch Fire burning in Olympic National Forest and Olympic National Park, according to the ...

A large wildfire burning in Mason County could push smoke into the central and south Puget Sound areas Thursday.

The tsunami threat caused by a massive earthquake near Russia has passed, according to the Washington Emergency Management Department.

The Washington State Emergency Management Division confirmed that the tsunami advisory for Washington state had been ...

We should also use this pause to envision a plan for safeguarding logging jobs and mill operations, and imagine a new ...

Divers in Puget Sound off Des Moines search for juvenile sixgill sharks, which use the waters as a nursery; these sharks can ...

The tsunami advisories from Tuesday are a good reminder for people in Western Washington to know their plan of when to ...

On Soundside, we occasionally ask field recordists about their iconic sounds of northwest. Today, we'll hear from acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton, also known as the Sound Tracker. He brought a ...