During the past year Crosscut’s staff photographer Matt M. McKnight and our team of freelance photographers bore witness to many of the news events that shape our city and region.
The Trump administration is suspending efforts to bolster the grizzly bear population in Washington's North Cascades. That would leave this part of the mountain range with fewer than ten of the...
Every weekday Jason Wang and his crew of hard-working employees start their morning roasting turkey and baking meatloaf for the hundreds of hungry customers who filter into his cafeteria-style...
A young resident killer whale chases a chinook salmon in the Salish Sea near San Juan Island, Washington, in September 2017. Courtesy of Oregon State University.
Contractors place an engineered cover, called geomembrane, over the balefill area at Pasco Sanitary Landfill. The fire under this area burned for about two years. Photo credit: John Richards
Monday’s solar eclipse atop Oregon’s high desert started at sunrise, when thousands of eclipse hunters including myself looked to the west with concern, noticing the tinge of smoke that filled the sky...