Environment Failed sewage pumps lead to 2.1 million gallon spill into Puget Sound Backup pumps at Seattle's main sewage treatment plant failed during an overnight power outage. John Ryan
Environment The San Juan Islands could become home to a sanctuary for captive orcas Kim Malcolm talks with Lori Marino, founder of the Whale Sanctuary Project. Kim Malcolm Andy Hurst
Environment Baby wipes, tree roots led to 165,000-gallon sewage spill at Golden Gardens Wading at Golden Gardens? Safe again. Flushing baby wipes? Never safe John Ryan
Environment Endangered orcas have been missing for 8 weeks. This is unprecedented, researchers say It all comes back to chinook salmon. John Ryan
Environment Deaths of 75 West Coast gray whales declared 'unusual mortality event' Scientists have recorded 75 gray whales washing up dead from California to Alaska this year, with 25 of those in Washington state. John Ryan
Environment Whale strikes could get more common as humpback numbers grow NOAA believes it was a humpback whale that a ferry hit in Elliot Bay last night Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Environment Environmentalists see key window of opportunity to help Orcas survive Will politicians act to help the Orcas? Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Environment More tankers in orca waters as oil exports to China increase It’s meant a jump in tanker traffic in Washington waters – and more risk of oil spills, though fewer tankers ply our waters now than a decade ago. John Ryan
Environment An ancient beach reborn — and renamed for a clam Heading out through the mud to dig clams by hand, Holden was following the footsteps of his ancestors who were doing the same thing in the same spot 1,100 years ago. John Ryan
Environment Homeowners keep building walls around Puget Sound. Biologists are taking out more Two years in a row, more walls have come down around Puget Sound than have gone up. John Ryan
