Lynda Mapes

For more than a century, cutting state-owned forests has been a way of doing business in Washington. But in an era of climate warming — and growing climate activism — there is a new fight.

Steelhead, oceangoing rainbow trout, define the wildness of the Pacific Northwest. Yet they are struggling to survive.

The new orca is just days old and is born to a population of orcas struggling to gain numbers after years of decline.

Earlier this summer, the record return of sockeye on the Columbia River looked to be doomed by water too warm to pass. Things changed just in time.

Hotel workers walked off the job Sunday at three Seattle-area hotels as part of a nationwide strike for better wages and to protect against staffing and service cuts.

Already highly valued as nurseries for sea life, researchers have discovered a new eelgrass superpower, as living systems that reduce human pathogens in seafood.

A record sockeye run is making its way upstream through Columbia River dams, but now hot water could stop the fish from reaching their home spawning grounds.

U.S. Forest Service releases its plan to protect old trees from fire, pests and logging.

Trees of the Pacific Northwest have been stripped of bark, planked and bent into shapes to mark important places for generations. Each tree tells a story.

Blown off course by violent storms, a sea turtle usually at home in warm seas off the coast of Mexico was found stranded and barely moving. After round-the-clock care and help from many humans, the turtle has begun to make...