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The Seattle Aquarium sits on Pier 59, above the cold, dark waters of Puget Sound. As children run inside its wood-beamed atrium, Lesanna Lahner peers into the largest display tank. A few salmon swim idly past barren rocks. "This used to be full of sea stars," says Lahner, the aquarium…

For married couples, serious illness is supposed to unfold like the story of Angelo Merendino, the New York photographer who stayed by his wife Jen’s side from the minute she was diagnosed with breast cancer – just five months after their wedding day – through four years of gruelling cancer…

Scientists are making some headway in figuring out what is killing millions of sea stars in the waters off the Pacific coast, from British Columbia to Mexico.
While a definitive answer eludes them, researchers suggest a pathogen -- either bacterial or viral -- is responsible for the death…

The Loud Red Bees perform works by Handel, Mozart, Verdi and Brahms for the Bellingham Music Club at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, May 7, at Trinity Lutheran Church, 119 Texas St.