Politics
On the fire line
The U.S. Forest Service considers changing its firefighting protocol in the wake of sentencing over handling of the Thirtymile Fire, which claimed the lives of four firefighters.
Bob Simmons
Bob Simmons is a longtime KING-TV reporter who has been writing news for print and television for 65 years.
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Culture
Death by a thousand (paper) cuts
A magazine distributor is doing what the Bellingham police and a prosecutor tried to do and couldn't.
Politics
Locals are in revolt against Puget Sound Energy
With Washington's biggest utility about to be bought by foreigners, public power advocates in four counties are hoping to switch their portions of the grid to local control. Voters will decide in November.
Politics
The animal-waste problem is, and is not, a load of crap
Researchers in Snohomish County estimate that pets there account for waste equivalent to a city of 32,000. That's a lot of nasty bacteria in surface-water runoff.
Culture
Seattle's water is Bellingham's wishful drinking
Motorboats, dogs, people — they're all in it up in Whatcom County. Now the state of Washington is cracking down.