Environment
Will flood protections set back salmon restoration in the Chehalis River Basin?
A flood control dam proposal on the Chehalis complicates a multimillion-dollar effort by tribes and lawmakers to bring back declining salmon runs.
John Stang
John Stang is a freelance writer who often covers state government and the environment. He can be reached on email at johnstang_8@hotmail.com and on Twitter at @johnstang_8
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Politics
Washington and Oregon governors want to replace I-5 bridge connecting Vancouver and Portland
In a memorandum of understanding signed Monday, the two leaders committed $44 million to explore rebuilding the span between the two states.
Environment
12 years and counting: Effort to lock Hanford’s radioactive waste in glass faces more delays
Feds aim to push back the opening of ‘glassification’ plants, while state officials say the Department of Energy has been underfunding the cleanup of America’s most poisoned site.
Environment
Washington's latest plan to save its endangered orcas: hatch more salmon
With orcas barely hanging on, Republican state Sen. Ann Rivers hopes to determine the viability of a state-funded chinook salmon hatchery in Bellingham.
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.