A judge ruled this week that the federal government hasn’t done enough to protect the coastal marten.

Anybody visiting the Ballard Locks around 5 o'clock yesterday racked up some major P-N-W points when several orcas made a rare visit, delighting onlookers.

Landlords in Seattle will no longer be able to charge pet rent… after Seattle city council passed a ban on so-called ‘junk fees.’

KUOW’s Scott Greenstone has more:

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As wildfires burn millions of acres across Oregon, one small community in the Columbia River Gorge may adopt a proactive defense. Mosier [[MO-zhur]] residents are deciding whether to work together to conduct controlled burns on private land.

OPB’s Porter Levenson reports.

Seattle city council members are trying to understand how officials responded to the fatal shooting at Seattle Center on July 26th that left three people dead.

Seattle city council members still have questions two weeks after the fatal shooting at the Seattle Center that left three people dead.

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Oregon Senator Ron Wyden says he’s planning to introduce a bill in Congress that is inspired by Oregon’s efforts to prevent corporate takeovers in medicine.

Union Pacific Railroad trains were scheduled to start running past the Centennial Mills warehouse starting yesterday [Monday]. The warehouse burned in a large fire in Portland’s Pearl District last week.

The state’s whale watching center in Depoe Bay is shut down for repairs, but officials say it’ll reopen by the end of October. Kristian Foden-Vencil reports.

All Spokane County residents who were forced from their homes by the recent wildfires can now go home.