After whale goes missing, endangered orca population drops to 30-year low An endangered killer whale has gone missing and is presumed dead, but it's not the only orca in trouble in Washington waters. Eight local orcas have... John Ryan
Seattle's ship canal project will cost $150 million more than expected Seattle and King County will have to pay tens of millions of dollars more than expected for their major utility project. The two governments are... Paige Browning
Lolita the orca was taken from Puget Sound. The Lummi want her back At Penn Cove, on the north end of Whidbey Island, gulls and other birds fly overhead, and a muddy beach leads down to the water. It’s quiet today, but,... Eilís O'Neill
Volunteers are counting every species around Puget Sound How many different plant and animal species exist in the Puget Sound region? That's what hundreds of volunteers have been trying to answer as part of... Casey Martin
Seattle salmon are hopped up on cocaine and pills Kim Malcolm talks with Seattle Times reporter Lynda Mapes about a new study that looks at the impact of drugs picked up by juvenile Chinook salmon in... Andy Hurst
Why don’t you see people-sized salmon anymore? While the orcas of Puget Sound are sliding toward extinction, orcas farther north have been expanding their numbers. Their burgeoning hunger for big... John Ryan
Remember NAFTA? It might keep Atlantic salmon farms in Puget Sound The Canadian owner of an Atlantic salmon farm that collapsed last summer near Anacortes vows to use the North American Free Trade Agreement to save its... John Ryan
Divers' videos capture new suspects in salmon farm collapse Washington state officials are looking at some new suspects in the collapse of an Atlantic salmon farm: sea creatures clogging the floating structure’s... John Ryan
State orders Atlantic salmon farm to shut down after finding 'serious safety problems' More trouble for the Canadian company that let 160,000 of its Atlantic salmon escape into Puget Sound this summer: Washington state officials announced... John Ryan
Puget Sound piracy leaves trail of (salmon) blood Call it Puget Sound piracy. Thieves boarded a floating salmon farm a few saltwater miles from Anacortes on a Saturday night in September. In their wake,... John Ryan
