Culture Best of 2009: How I learned to love the bag fee The first grocery plastic bag, in the late 1970s by Douglas MacDonald / December 29, 2009
Politics Tunnel worries The latest alignment of the proposed Seattle deep-bore tunnel to replace the Alaskan Way Viaduct follows the waterfront. by Cary Moon / December 28, 2009
Environment Best of 2009: If sturgeon could talk William Howard Taft by Daniel Jack Chasan / December 28, 2009
Tech Do you know your Christmas tree? Gary Chastagner with firry friend by Peter Monaghan / December 24, 2009
Culture Weird but true: Alaskan tall tales The Iditarod race: something funny about those dogs? by Bob Simmons / December 21, 2009
Politics Cantwell threatens NOAA with hearings Newport, Oregon, potential site of NOAA research facility. by Bob Simmons / December 16, 2009
Politics As California greens, Northwest power gains Bonneville Dam, in the Columbia River Gorge by Daniel Jack Chasan / December 14, 2009
Environment It's Canada's Northwest Passage, eh? The renaming of the fabled sea route is an attempt to capitalize on the effects of global warming by changing the map. by Knute Berger / December 13, 2009
Environment I'm dreaming of a Great Whites Christmas The great white worm, nearly a foot in length. by Knute Berger / December 12, 2009
