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May 23, 2012 1:33 AM
Hardly a day goes by that genetically modified foods don’t make the news in some form: legal battles over labeling requirements, rumbles in...
April 20, 2012 12:29 AM
Trolling with a guide off Malcolm Island near the northern end of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, we watch the rod tip, hoping for a...
January 13, 2012 1:26 AM
They pour into Seattle by the hundreds of thousands: cruise ship passengers from all over the world, clamoring to board floating cities for...
December 13, 2011 12:28 AM
Looks aren’t everything, but in the world of finance, they can be a key to success, according to Scott, a 57-year-old Seattle-area...
December 12, 2011 11:12 PM
Local filmmakers and film buffs hoped it was just a blooper reel as they watched the popular Motion Picture Competitiveness Program pass in...
November 22, 2011 9:04 PM
When the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) launched its online Food Desert Locator last summer, Seattle’s gourmets and locavores were...
October 17, 2011 4:32 PM
“My sixth-grade son’s report card came home, and he got almost all A’s,” recalls Seattle parent David Price. But what seemed like a cause...
September 16, 2011 4:16 PM
As he travels around Seattle seeking support for his City Council candidacy, Bradley Meacham hears the same two questions over and over...
July 13, 2011 7:19 PM
The ongoing nuclear disaster in Japan—triggered by the March 11 earthquake—has federal officials asking tough questions about nuclear...
May 11, 2011 10:45 PM
It wasn’t a native tree. It wasn’t what most would call pretty. And it was so big it dwarfed the little cottage it had grown beside for the...
May 9, 2011 6:11 PM
Contamination-related shutdowns at two beloved local cheese makers sparked outrage last year—but maybe not for the reasons you’d think. The...
February 2, 2011 10:04 PM
At the warm, brine-scented Northwest Fisheries Science Laboratory (NFSL) in Montlake, soft-spoken biologist Paul McElhany and a team of...
















