A large, two-alarm residential fire overnight on Mercer Island left a home appearing to be a total loss. Extensive search launched for missing Port Angeles man Gunnar Peterson was captured on ...

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West Coast clams are coming down with cancer - Pollution and climate change-driven heat are worsening the outbreak ...

The food supply of Puget Sound’s endangered orcas is contaminated, a team of Canadian and Washington scientists has found. The scientists measured persistent organic pollution concentrations in ...

The opioid epidemic has now made its way into marine life in Washington's Puget Sound. Scientists who track pollution have for the first time, discovered traces of oxycodone in mussels. But scientists ...

A parasite commonly carried by foxes that can be passed to domestic dogs and cause severe illness in humans on rare occasions appears to have established itself in the Pacific Northwest, according to ...

Eric Risberg / AP The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is recalling oysters harvested from Puget Sound in December, citing possible norovirus contamination. It’s one of several recalls to impact the ...

SEATTLE— Conservation groups filed a notice today of their intent to sue the city of Tacoma, Washington, for discharging toxic wastewater at levels that harm Puget Sound Chinook salmon, protected as ...