It’s checkup time for sea turtles at Point Defiance Zoo | Northwest Wanderings VIEW
Northwest Wanderings: Getting huge sea turtles from their habitat to an exam room and back is an annual challenge for the care team — and...
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Remember Amy, the dog-like pig? She’s grown up and retired now. VIEW
Amy the pig was the star pupil in dog-obedience class four years ago. After showing her stuff in shows and visiting retirement homes, she's retired...
Pike Place Market cigar-box guitar maker ‘can’t believe I fell into this’ WATCH
Dean Moller saw a cigar-box instrument online, and decided to make one himself. The first one sold for $200.
What kind of impression do your lips leave? This ‘lipsologist’ can tell you VIEW
Jill Eddy takes an imprint of a person's lips and from it interprets his or her personality.
Cutting your own Christmas tree: a day of family traditions on a North Bend farm VIEW
A trip to a Puget Sound-area Christmas tree farm can be a bonding experience. In North Bend, the families cutting down these trees spoke of...
Young rockers take the stage at The Crocodile, where Seattle legends played VIEW
At Seattle's famed Crocodile, young School of Rock students get their first taste of playing in a nightclub.
Rachel the Pig pulls her weight at Pike Place Market VIEW
Rachel is one big pig. And piggy bank. Given her girth, she’s not that heavy at 550 pounds, 200 less than her namesake who won...
You can see change closing in on Lake Union, Seattle’s hardworking, ever-evolving waterway VIEW
Seattle Times staff photographer Alan Berner drinks in the vibrancy of Lake Union in this installment of Northwest Wanderings, a column that explores places and...
Fabio the rooster has plenty to crow about at Evergreen State Fair WATCH
Meet Fabio, the winning fowl at the fair. He has something to cluck about in Northwest Wanderings, a column by photographer Alan Berner that explores...
In Port Orchard, running a mini-railway is an exercise in engineering fun VIEW
Ken Olsen first bought a used engine that wasn’t running and stored it for 20 year, repairing it after taking welding and machine-shop classes. A...
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