One-year-old girl dies of gunshot in Snohomish County
Detectives from the Snohomish County Sheriff's Office were serving a search warrant Sunday at the site near Granite Falls where a 1-year-old girl was fatally...
Wet, blustery and cool weather to continue in Puget Sound region
With a series of storms headed this way, the Thanksgiving weekend in Western Washington will be typical for this time of year: wet, blustery and...
As Oregon outfits its schools for seismic safety, many in Washington remain highly vulnerable to earthquakes and tsunamis VIEW
Washington's lackluster efforts at mitigating seismic risk reflect the lack of political will. The last Cascadia quake struck in 1700, and with an average recurrence...
An ambitious new alliance works to identify what’s happening to our crucial kelp forests in order to protect — and, hopefully, restore — them
An ambitious new initiative aims to figure out why kelp is vanishing throughout much of Puget Sound, and to reverse the trend. The effort is...
Here’s what Goodwill really does with the stuff you donate VIEW
We depend extensively on Goodwill to help with the mind-boggling amount of stuff we dispose of every year. If Goodwill didn’t exist, communities would need...
Donation do’s and don’ts — plus busting some Goodwill myths
Donations are Goodwill's lifeblood, and they are loathe to create any hesitation or uncertainty that might reduce the amount of stuff they receive. But here...
Fall’s here: Wet weather will continue through weekend
After a stormy, wet day and scattered power outages, the Seattle area can expect showers through Sunday night, although with less wind,