WASHINGTON – They were two of the 1,000 juvenile salmon implanted with almond-sized transmitters as they headed out of the Rocky Mountains, down the Snake River bound for the sea. Read more...

WASHINGTON – Here’s the question: What does a community organizer from Chicago who spent four years in the Senate before being elected president know about spotted owls, endangered salmon, mountain bark beetles, Western water rights, old-growth forests and the maintenance backlog in the national parks? Read more...

The state Shorelines Hearing Board will meet in February to decide whether Taylor Shellfish Farms can keep harvesting geoducks in Case Inlet. Read more...

A Puget Sound draft cleanup plan wrapped in a sense of urgency and filled with costly projects to save habitat and halt pollution was released for public review Thursday by the Puget Sound Partnership. Read more...

To kill the snails, the trees must die, says the Port of Tacoma, as it levels 17 acres of young and old trees on the Tideflats. Read more...

The hundreds of elk that stamp around yards and chew up fruit trees in the mountain towns near Mount Rainier have given residents fits for years. Read more...

Starting Saturday, visitors to the Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge will be able to walk the 51/2-mile Brown Farm Dike Trail without backtracking. Read more...

Nothing lures visitors to Paradise like the transitory displays of wildflowers that populate Mount Rainier’s high mountain meadows. Read more...

When the City of Tacoma purchased polluted property on the Foss Waterway in 1990, leaders dreamed of cleaning it up, parceling it out and reviving the waterway. Read more...

If brisk overnight temperatures have you wondering whether you have stacked enough dry wood to fire up your old stove this winter, Puget Sound air pollution regulators would like you to consider alternatives. Read more...

The look of antiseptic green mouthwash that colored Tacoma’s Wapato Lake in the days following its treatment earlier this summer has nearly vanished. Read more...

Fluorescent pink toes will substitute for dog tags, and crickets for meals-ready-to-eat. Read more...

Nobody likes looking at pictures of baby sea otters strangled by cast-off, plastic, six-pack loops or albatrosses who died trying to digest discarded cigarette lighters and old toothbrushes. It’s wrong to litter the oceans with plastic debris - and you don’t have to be a scientist to see it. Read more...

When it comes to invasive weeds, it’s best to pick your battles. At least that’s the rationale of Sean MacDougall, who last year embarked on what he envisions as a five-year campaign against one of the most notorious: Japanese knotweed. Read more...

The story of the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch,” an Africa-sized zone of the Pacific Ocean where tons of discarded plastic bits swirl, comes to Tacoma on Tuesday. Read more...