Politics Prison: A life sentence to joblessness? Washington state's Monroe Correctional Complex by Claudia Rowe / July 21, 2010
Culture Can legal weed save pizza and ice cream parlors? With the invention of period-free contraceptives, junk food is on a slippery slope. Will the proliferation of legal marijuana save the day? by Valerie Tarico / December 20, 2012
Culture Spread of Catholic health care raises barriers to care choices Religiously affiliated hospitals in Washington state servce much of the population. Click to enlarge by Valerie Tarico / April 10, 2013
Equity Foster kids: Aged out and alone at 18 Youthful angst. by Claudia Rowe for InvestigateWest / February 14, 2013
Culture Mechanical nature: The kinetic sculptures of an Okanogan artist WATCH: With wire, a welder and will, sculptor Loren Doner captures nature’s mechanics. by Nils Cowan / December 21, 2018
Politics How WA farmers are safeguarding migrant workers Migrant workers in Skagit Valley. by Nils Cowan / September 28, 2017
Politics How saving a little red fish led to an urban refuge Kokanee salmon, a landlocked species that spends its entire life cycle in freshwater. by Nils Cowan for EarthFix / July 26, 2016
Culture From Uwajimaya to internment and back again Young entrepreneur Fujimatsu Moriguchi arrived in Tacoma in the 1920s, excited about the prospects this new land might offer and the wealth he hoped to bring back to his hometown of Uwajima, Japan. He... by Nils Cowan / March 20, 2017
News Shmews: A journalist confronts reader apathy The non-virtual newstand in Pike Place Market (2006). by Claudia Rowe / June 10, 2013
Culture What World War Z and Tacoma have in common A new urban ethic is remaking the Northwest. by Valerie Tarico / November 24, 2013