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Jamestown S'Klallam tribe scientists have teamed up with Western Washington University's Huxley College on the Peninsulas as part of a Dungeness River floodplain restoration effort.

“The big question is to plant or not to plant,” said Jenise Bauman, the college's assistant…

Western Washington University’s Huxley College of the Environment on the Peninsulas’s professors and students are partnering with Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe scientists to improve floodplain restoration methods.

“The big question is to plant or not to plant,” said Jenise Bauman, the college…

The next time the Cascadia fault along the West Coast unleashes a magnitude-9 earthquake, the dams in east Skagit County could fail, dozens of bridges and overpasses could collapse on major roadways, and utilities could shut down.

The region's earthquake risks have been known for…

With its delicate white petals and yellow center, trillium ranks among the more precious of the native Northwest spring wildflowers.

Wander the forests of lowland Whatcom County in late March and early April and you’re sure to see trillium blooming near stands of Western red cedar,…

The disease that killed millions of the once-ubiquitous sea stars seems to be fading.

Marine biologists are zeroing in on the combined factors — including a rise in water temperature — that resulted in the devastation of the sea star population on the Pacific Coast, from Mexico to Alaska…

It seemed like a rather benign phone call.

It turned out to be something much larger than a simple plea to come look at a collection of fly rods, in order to price them for a garage sale.

Danny Beatty of Anacortes got that call back in 1986. And when the Fidalgo Fly Fishers club…

In the wake of last year’s award-winning book about the real bear that inspired A.A. Milne’s beloved Winnie-the-Pooh stories, a Western Washington University graduate returns to Bellingham with her tales of the places that became legendary as the Hundred Acre Wood.