Environment Nick on the Rocks: Mount Baker, the volcano born from volcanoes Shifting glaciers revealed the North Cascade peak’s origins, forged from three ancient volcanoes that lived and died over the past million years. by Shannen Ortale / January 12, 2024
Environment Nick on the Rocks: The North Cascades' gneiss-est bedrock The range’s oldest bedrock sits high in the mountains near Canada. But the yellow aster gneiss originated an ocean away 400 million years ago. by Shannen Ortale / January 19, 2024
Environment Nick on the Rocks: The mystery of Waterville's basalt boulders Just north of Withrow, WA, pancake-flat fields are dotted with massive rocks that help us visualize an Ice Age glacier. by Shannen Ortale / January 26, 2024
Environment Nick on the Rocks: Why Mount Shuksan is made of sea green stone Greenschist gets its tint from minerals compressed under the ocean long ago. Now it caps an entire mountaintop in the North Cascades. Special thanks to Central Washington University as the original... by Shannen Ortale / January 5, 2024
News The Newsfeed: Key takeaways from the 2024 WA legislative session Lawmakers addressed guns and the environment, but housing was left behind. Also, the deaths of rideshare drivers leads to requests for more aid. by Shannen Ortale / March 21, 2024
Tech Seattlepi.com hires writer to fill major loss The <i>Seattle Post-Intelligencer</i>'s rotating globe. by Heidi Dietrich / June 22, 2010
Pi.com's main blog goes from young to younger The Seattle P-I Globe, built for the defunct "Seattle Post-Intelligencer," will be preserved. (2007 photo) by Heidi Dietrich / June 15, 2010
Culture Political paranoia: Share it, and everything is easy Red Square at The Evergreen State College: Slippery by design? by Carol Poole / January 14, 2011
Seattle is big for new media initiatives Many newspapers are scaling back operations. by Heidi Dietrich / August 13, 2010
Spot.us, the newest media player in Seattle The site, which solicits donations for stories proposed by journalists, has expanded to Seattle from the Bay Area and Los Angeles. It opened shop today. by Heidi Dietrich / April 15, 2010