The failure of the legislature to pass a capital budget leaves Washington’s state forests with an increasing risk of catastrophic wildfires. The state department of Natural Resources says a recent survey showed it has about 2.7 million acres of forests in Washington that are in poor health.

King County’s largest wastewater treatment facility has been operating on the edge of disaster for years and it’s ill-equipped to deal with the growing population in the region. That’s one of the conclusions from the independent review of February’s catastrophic failure at the West Point sewage treatment plant in Seattle’s Discovery Park.

Despite a lot of pressure from activists, Seattle will not be divesting from fossil fuel investments in its $2.5 billion pension fund. The board that oversees the pension fund for city employees met Thursday morning and faced a room full of protestors holding signs urging the city to take its money out of energy investments that pollute the air.

Edmonds is well-known as the first city in the state to ban disposable plastic bags . Now it’s taking concrete steps to more aggressively reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Washingtonians are parsing the state budget passed last week by a divided legislature. It adds $1.8 billion for basic education over the next two years. A big chunk of that comes from the closure of a so-called “extractive fuel” loophole, which is one of several new policies that many environmentally progressive groups like.

Imagine walking for three days to make a statement about a cause you care for deeply. That’s what people joining the "Walk to Protect & Restore our Salish Sea" will do this weekend.

Seattle’s Emergency Management Office is partnering with the city’s Department of Neighborhoods to make all community garden P-Patches into official gathering places during an emergency .

Among the many wonders at the Ballard Locks is a fish ladder. The ladder encourages threatened salmon to swim up or downstream, to keep them safe from boats passing through the canal.

A new way of getting juvenile salmon out to the ocean is the latest innovation at the Ballard Locks in Seattle. The Army Corps of Engineers, which runs the facility, says the fish have safer passage with the new design. It’s one of the things they’ll be highlighting this weekend at a Fisheries Day going on Saturday . If you’re a salmon trying to survive in the Lake Washington system, your life might be compared to a game of chutes and ladders…the obstacles are everywhere in the system. But the

Two recently designated national monuments in Washington state are among those vulnerable under an executive order from President Donald Trump . Locals in the San Juan Islands say they would be shocked to see the federal protection undone. Senator Maria Cantwell has been leading the charge among Democrats in the other Washington who are fighting against the latest executive order. In a letter to the president, they expressed their deep concerns. Speaking on the Senate floor on Tuesday, Cantwell,