The University of Washington’s College of the Environment has teamed up with Seattle visual analytics company Tableau Software to create a new, interactive visualization for historical observations of temperature and precipitation in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and western Montana, and for Was…
A young male bobcat was released back into the wild Nov. 18 after being found in a family’s fenced-in backyard near Astoria.
National assessment on climate change projects rising temperatures and rising pressure on agriculture to adapt
Pacific Ocean temperatures are rising along the equator, a signal that winter likely will be warmer than normal in the Northwest.
Horror tales from recent earthquakes overseas are moving people in the Pacific Northwest to give a crap about where to crap after a major earthquake.
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More hot and dry weather is expected to hang around the Pacific Northwest, exacerbating drought conditions that have gripped the region.
Vicki Markley remembers the scene vividly. The owner of Pinehurst Cabins & RV Park stood on her doorstep two weeks ago as the Rattlesnake Creek Fire approached from across U.S. Highway 95 …
Washington wildlife managers initially opposed sending a helicopter or a search-and-rescue team to save a woman treed by wolves in the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest, according to recordin…
KLIPSAN — When a woman dropped her cell phone in a Klipsan Beach outhouse in June, she ended up down in the dumps.
U.S. Sens. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and Patty Murray (D-Wash.) have introduced the West Coast Ocean Protection Act to permanently prohibit offshore drilling on the outer continental shelf off …
BURLINGTON — Police searched Saturday for a gunman who opened fire in the makeup department of a Macy’s store at a mall north of Seattle, killing four females and one man, before fleeing towar…
COLUMBIA RIVER — The Columbia Basin is possibly looking at a summer with progressively diminishing water supplies, because of similar conditions that developed last year across the basin.
Clean-water campaign viewed as anti-farmer
WASHINGTON — In rural Pacific and Wahkiakum counties, there are frequent occasions when a very small group of cops from a mix of city, county and state agencies are on duty. When a call goes s…
The National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction Center is projecting that the El Niño weather pattern will dissipate around late summer, and that there are growing indications a La Niña patt…
TACOMA (AP) — The Latest on the federal fraud trial of Washington State Auditor Troy Kelley (all times local):
OLYMPIA — A decade ago, Seattle entrepreneur Ben Rogovy made headlines for inventing the controversial practice of “Bumvertising” — paying the homeless to advertise his businesses. Now, he’s i…
OLYMPIA — Across the globe, tuberculosis kills more people each year than any other infectious disease, and now it appears to be gaining a foothold in Pacific County and other parts of the Eve…
PACIFIC COUNTY — New state data reveals a disturbing trend: It’s too easy for Washington teens — including those in Pacific County — to get tobacco.
OLYMPIA, Wash. — Top lawmakers in Washington largely exempt themselves from the state’s public records law, and their offices did not release emails sent and received by their government accou…
Legislature shrinks education opportunity gap; governor’s signature next
OLYMPIA — When Logan Bowers opened his marijuana retail store Seattle Hashtag in April 2015, he entered an arena far different from his tech-industry background.
OLYMPIA — The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has confirmed the first case of Zika Virus in Washington state.
For Chinook Observer readers who are following this news, here’s a statement by Greg Bretzing, Special Agent In Charge, FBI Portland, released at 11:03 a.m. Jan. 27:
PULLMAN — The Washington Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory (WADDL) has found two dogs positive for influenza A, but specific typing has not been conducted.
EDITOR’S NOTE: This powerful story from the south side of the Columbia River mirrors the addiction struggles of too many here in Pacific County. Whittney Ferguson, the subject of the story, wa…
TUMWATER — Washington state’s minimum wage, of $9.47 per hour, will stay the same in 2016 because the national Consumer Price Index did not increase.
PACIFIC OCEAN — The National Weather Service has warned for months that this year’s El Niño weather pattern will be among the strongest on record, with predictions for higher-than-normal preci…
WESTPORT — A sunken vessel in Westhaven Marina no longer poses and environmental risk after Coast Guard personnel removed 500 gallons of oil and water form the vessel’s tanks Monday.
The recent Paris attacks intensified the debate on how America should allow people through its doors just as Washington received its first wave of Syrian refugees.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Nov. 18 the Senate Commerce Committee passed U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell’s (D-WA) West Coast Dungeness Crab Management Act of 2015. The legislation would make the current fi…
A warming ocean that began long before the most recent El Niño is causing a West Coast drought, first in California and now in the Northwest.
WASHINGTON — A growing number of terminally ill residents have chosen to die on their own terms since the Death With Dignity Act went into effect in 2009. However, a recent report suggests tha…
OLYMPIA (AP) — Voters in Washington were deciding the fate of two statewide initiatives and scores of local races Tuesday night. Here is the latest from the election:
PULLMAN — The discovery in Washington state of a parasitic wasp that kills its host like a scene from the “Alien” sci-fi movie has entomologists cheering from the West Coast to the East.
NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center released an updated El Nino forecast this week that is in line with previous forecasts in recent months predicting that weather patterns driven by Pacific Ocea…
Bill Baker thought it was silly when his wife lost her CD case in the refrigerator. It was strange when she stopped talking mid-conversation. It was terrifying the first time she had a car acc…
SALEM — Oregon is sending updated checklists for the aftermath of a catastrophic earthquake and tsunami to state and local emergency response agencies across the state.
WARRENTON — A 22-month-old toddler is in serious condition after being struck by a full-size van Friday morning in Warrenton.
SEATTLE (AP) — A new indictment from a federal grand jury on Thursday added money laundering and tax evasion counts to a long list of charges against Washington State Auditor Troy Kelley, who …
WASHINGTON — Everything’s coming up slimy.
WASHINGTON — For the first time in state history, the state is asking citizen volunteers to help fight wildfires.
Driven by higher-than-normal Pacific Ocean water temperatures, an El Nino weather pattern has been building in strength since March, but its impacts will vary from one region to another.
More than two-fifths of Washington is suffering an “extreme drought,” the first time the state has reached those conditions in a decade, the U.S. Drought Monitor reported.
A recent article in The New Yorker triggered widespread discussion, and some panic, about the risk of a huge earthquake off the Pacific Northwest coast. While the seismic hazard is real, exper…
LONG BEACH — Royal Dutch Shell’s MSV Fennica icebreaker vessel is nearing the mouth of the Columbia River early Friday afternoon.
PACIFIC COUNTY — South Bend is passing an ordinance that will allow city officials to restrict water usage if necessary, and cranberry plants are browning in fields around Long Beach: It’s bee…
When an underwater volcano erupted in April off the Oregon coast, researchers knew within minutes that something spectacular was happening more than 300 miles offshore west and slightly south …
LONG BEACH — In what may be a unique occurrence, Pacific County on Thursday was classified as being in “Severe Drought” by the National Drought Mitigation Center, a consortium led by the U.S. …
OLYMPIA — Bird flu could return next winter with new strains that are more prevalent in wild birds and more deadly for chickens, Washington State Veterinarian Joe Baker said July 6.
OLYMPIA — Two state agencies have finalized new standards for farmworker housing, regulating everything from minimum living space to the number of toilets in group quarters.
PORTLAND — Umatilla tribal leader N. Kathryn “Kat” Brigham was selected by leaders from the Warm Springs, Yakama, Nez Perce and Umatilla tribes to lead the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Com…
Extra scientists have been added to a fisheries survey along the West Coast to chart an extensive harmful algal bloom that has triggered numerous closures of important shellfish fisheries in W…
SALEM — Oregon is one of only two states where drivers aren’t allowed to pump their own gas, but lawmakers appear ready to allow people cruising through rural areas — including Clatsop County …
LACEY — A government teacher is being hailed as a hero after tackling a 16-year-old student who fired two shots into the air Monday at North Thurston High School, police and students said.
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