Opinion
Yes, there were black slaves in the Pacific Northwest. Historians are making our region confront it
An Oregon author is exploring little-known chapters of the region's ugly, racist roots.
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Everything about the Pacific Northwest is on display at the new Burke Museum. Even the scientists.
The museum's new home brings its researchers out of the basement, and delivers a love letter of fossils and artifacts to our region.
Environment
How one scientist enlisted a lakeside community to study (and eat) invasive crayfish
For 12 years, UW's Julian Olden has studied the native and invasive crayfish populations of Sammamish's Pine Lake. But the citizen scientists who live onshore are his secret weapon.
Environment
What the new Endangered Species Act rules mean for Washington state
Scientists, conservationists and state regulators warn that changes to the legislation could make species and habitat recovery more difficult.
Environment
Hanford scientists are watching black holes collide — and potentially swallow each other
Physicists at Hanford's LIGO observatory have been watching black holes for years. But a recent discovery of an unseen black hole collision is an astronomical first.