Once thriving, there are now believed to be just 73 Southern Resident killer whales left in Washington state's Puget Sound.

Lurking beneath the surface of Washington's Puget Sound are some of nature's most magnificent and endangered species: orca ...

Lani Matthews, 13, is chased down the Buckley Cemetery hill by her dog, Kona, in February. A study finds a link between interactions with nature and happiness for people in the Puget Sound area.

A large part of the monitoring work is also to assess how wastewater is impacting the Sound, if at all. In the mid-1950s, there was little wastewater treatment for the quickly-growing region.

Puget Sound lies in an area of temperate marine climate, with mild, wet winters and warm, dry summers. There are fewer than 60 days of mostly sunny weather, so overheating by direct sunlight is ...

A new study of Puget Sound-area residents has found that engagement with nature can be linked to overall happiness — for middle-class people, anyway.

Winter flooding has become nearly as predictable as the rain in the Puget Sound and Seattle region, where a more developed landscape is reducing nature's ability to absorb big storms.

Local researchers say at least 14 to 94 million pounds of contaminants like oil, grease and toxic metals get mixed with stormwater in Puget Sound every year. Now a new public-private partnership ...

Tony Angell, a Seattle-based artist, will talk about his book "Puget Sound Through an Artist's Eye" at Elliott Bay Book Company and Foster/White Gallery. Tony Angell, ...

The orcas lurking beneath the surface of Washington state's Puget Sound are some of nature's most magnificent, imposing and endangered species. Stefanie Stockwell and Mindy Roberts, both longtime ...