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Former energy consultant Kurt Beckett now heads the agency tasked with permitting his ex-clients’ wind and solar plants.

From its beginnings at a bucolic Canadian lake to shipwreck dangers at its mouth, the Columbia River has defined the region's history and culture.

A new Northwest Reports series digs into the tensions, backlash and bureaucracy around building wind and solar energy facilities in Washington.

The death of the whale at a Miami amusement park just before her planned release highlighted the species’ fraught relationship with humans.

A small part of the American Rescue Plan provides direct, flexible dollars to compensate for untaxable national parks or other federally owned lands.

People flocked to see a young orca lost in a river near Portland. Then she was killed, pickled and left in a tank on a mountainside.

The final stretch of North Spokane Corridor construction reopens old wounds in East Central — and sparks a pilot program to address historical damage.

A recent beluga whale sighting had Puget Sound agog. It wasn't the first time a whale visited a Northwest city.

We have a long history of wildfire in the PNW. But megafires are a new thing entirely.