Politics Washington and Oregon governors want to replace I-5 bridge connecting Vancouver and Portland In a memorandum of understanding signed Monday, the two leaders committed $44 million to explore rebuilding the span between the two states. by John Stang / November 19, 2019
Environment 12 years and counting: Effort to lock Hanford’s radioactive waste in glass faces more delays Feds aim to push back the opening of ‘glassification’ plants, while state officials say the Department of Energy has been underfunding the cleanup of America’s most poisoned site. by John Stang / November 14, 2019 / Updated Nov. 19 at 9:50 a.m.
Environment Washington's latest plan to save its endangered orcas: hatch more salmon With orcas barely hanging on, State Sen. Ann Rivers hopes to determine the viability of a private Chinook salmon hatchery in Bellingham. by John Stang / November 1, 2019
Environment Will flood protections set back salmon restoration in the Chehalis River Basin? A flood control dam proposal on the Chehalis complicates a multimillion-dollar effort by tribes and lawmakers to bring back declining salmon runs. by John Stang / February 12, 2020
Culture Mossback’s Northwest: The tiny oyster that made Washington The Pacific Coast’s only indigenous oyster, the Olympia, was eaten into near-extinction. It could be making a comeback. by Knute Berger & Stephen Hegg / April 3, 2020
Culture Art Seen: The language behind the baton How conductors convey musical ideas through movement. by Aileen Imperial & Stephen Hegg & Matt M. McKnight / March 13, 2020
News Mossback’s Northwest: An end to Seattle’s ramps to nowhere Seattle's 'Ramps to Nowhere,' built 50 years ago to feed an imagined expressway, are finally coming down. by Knute Berger & Stephen Hegg / May 15, 2020
Culture Mossback’s Northwest: When the 'boys in the boat' raced Swinomish paddlers How a race between rival crews brought Native and UW paddlers closer to the sport — and each other. by Knute Berger & Stephen Hegg / May 1, 2020
News More trouble for Hanford site after review of tunnel collapse While most Americans are focused on COVID-19, people in Eastern Washington also worry about poor maintenance at the infamous nuclear site. by John Stang / April 30, 2020
Culture Mossback's Northwest: The 1941 Seattle 'insult' that still stings Sir Thomas Beecham came to conduct the Seattle Symphony and uttered a sentence that has never been forgotten. by Knute Berger & Stephen Hegg / April 23, 2020