The Olympia Kiwanis Club, Olympia Historical Society and Olympia Woodturners Association share something in common: They’re all putting to good use some of the big trees that came down or were fatally damaged in the January snow and ice storm.
We love our trees. We love our power. That’s our problem. At its peak, the ice storm of Jan. 19 knocked out the juice for 270,000 Puget Sound Energy customers. Some waited a week for the lights to come back on.
Clean-water advocates at the Capitol fear environmental protections could be repealed or softened this year as part of a budget and tax deal.
This "crowdsourced" map represents snowfall in the South Sound region as of 5 p.m. Wednesday, based on reports from more than 300 contributors.
The Pierce County Council Tuesday re-launched the process of creating a flood-control zone district, and this time dangled a carrot for areas rarely in danger of flooding: Some tax money collected could go to stormwater control.
A winter that has been slow to show signs of the cool, wet La Niña season that was predicted is changing course, according to the National Weather Service. Forecasters predict cooler weather, snow showers and a series of storms reaching Western Washington on Saturday over the long holiday weekend. Snow was expected by late Saturday morning in the Puget Sound lowlands with snow accumulations over the weekend of an inch or less in South Sound and higher amounts likely north of Seattle, meteorologist Dennis D’Amico said Friday.
CAMANO ISLAND — Higher-than-normal tides brought people out to beaches in Snohomish and Island counties over the past week to watch the waves lap at seawalls and toss the driftwood.
Fishing can have devastating effects on seabirds. Not only do they get snagged on hooks and tangled in nets, but chronic overfishing can deprive the birds of their prey – the same small fish that boats are catching.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is offering federal grants totaling $6.3 million to groups working on ways to protect and repair watersheds in the Puget Sound region.
Federal grants worth more than $6 million are going out to agencies trying to protect the Puget Sound from pollution.
A new baby orca was photographed Saturday in a pod that lives in Puget Sound.
Thirteen salmon recovery projects valued at more than $2 million in Thurston and Mason counties have received state and federal funding to proceed.
Tacoma composters take note: Food scraps soon will be accepted in the yard waste bin.
WASHINGTON – At least 32 mostly coal-fired power plants in a dozen states will be forced to shut down and an additional 36 might have to close because of new federal air pollution regulations, according to an Associated Press survey.
A local conservation group has bought a swath of Eatonville-area land that it says is critical to the effort to restore and protect the shoreline of the Mashel River.
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