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Joe Cessna’s neighbors include chemical plants that are as much a part of the Niagara Falls landscape as the Cataracts.

He’s constantly reminded of their presence. There’s the “nasty smell” that permeates his neighborhood and the greasy film that coats his pool in…

Standing ankle-deep in the South River, Kadrin Anderson watched as her 2-year-old son grabbed thick rocks out of the cold riverbed before heaving them back into the water.

Anderson, who is five months pregnant with her second child, lives in Staunton and is a science teacher at a local…

The North Olympic Peninsula's remaining sea stars may be holding their own, but there is no evidence yet of a remarkable recovery of young sea stars seen elsewhere along the Pacific coast, researchers say.

With nearly all of the mature sea stars dead and gone, rarely seen juvenile…

Noted economists Dr. Hart Hodges and Dr. Anneliese Vance-Sherman will be featured guest speakers at the Economic Development Council's annual "Economics" luncheon.

Presentations by Hodges and Vance-Sherman will explore the past, present and future of the regional economy,…

Pete Stelling, assistant professor of geology at Western Washington University, is working to make the Alaskan island of Akutan less dependent on diesel fuel by tapping the island’s renewable geothermal energy.

Johann Neem, a professor at Western Washington University who has also been critical of WGU, says the model is especially troubling for its on focus low-income and working-class students. He fears that students with financial pressures at home will increasingly be steered to the WGU’s online…

You might call him the late-blooming old man of Northwest geology.

Or call him Whatcom County’s unofficial “geology laureate.”

Either way, Dave Tucker’s lifelong interest in the rocks of the region has found a new outlet with his first book, “Geology Underfoot in Western Washington…