Seattle

Prisons in Washington State may be blocking book donations, air pollution is shortening lives, and a four-legged whale skeleton provides evolutionary clues.

ICE policy discourages enforcement at places of worship, so the agency has avoided entering them, but no law prevents immigration authorities from doing so.

So far, America's wage experiment appears to be a success—and it's far from over yet.

A later start time of the school day is linked to better grades.

Taking an inside look at the annual Seattle Aquarium Octopus Survey, where local divers help complete a census of the region's giant Pacific octopus.

One national park reopens, another sees closures, and a judge dismisses young climate activists' case.

Lawmakers in Washington, D.C., took the first steps toward banning plastic straws in the nation's capital on Tuesday.

Ghost Ship defendants take a plea deal, Seattle bans plastic straws, and Colorado's third-largest fire ever rages.

Critics in the city argue that the repeal of a tax that would help fund housing and homelessness initiatives is a capitulation to business interests.

Alaska Airlines has become the first airline to renounce the use of plastic straws in an effort to raise awareness about the use of single-use plastics that pollute the world's oceans.

News and notes from Pacific Standard staff and contributors.

The city is starting to take steps to ready itself for an increased onslaught of rain as a result of climate change and historic weather patterns.

The chief counsel for ICE's Seattle field office faces charges of aggravated identity theft and wire fraud.

I wrote a big ol' feature about what I found there—it's in this month's Pacific Standard—but it's not just the political lessons that stuck with me.

A NASA satellite image shows fires in the Pacific Northwest, which now hosts 10 times as many large fires as it did before 1960.

Henry Ford and Detroit radically changed the economic geography of the world. Now, Jeff Bezos and Seattle are poised to do the same.

Models suggest atmospheric aerosol concentrations will increase as the temperatures keep climbing—and that's bad news for your lungs.

The latest entry in a special project in which business and labor leaders, social scientists, technology visionaries, activists, and journalists weigh in on the most consequential changes in the workplace.

As poverty rises in American suburbs, all those people still need to get to work in the city.

Fifteen feet have washed up on the shores of the Pacific Northwest in the past decade. Why have they been so vexingly hard to identify?

With a diversified employment base, the Emerald City will survive as Boeing starts looking for new talent outside of Washington State. But what does the search for cheap STEM talent say about the Innovation Economy?

Concerns about population growth and decline are artifacts of the 19th century and the industrial revolution. For them to make any sense today, we need to look at the numbers in a much different way.

Talent moves for reasons other than employment. And sometimes they even bring jobs with them.

Top-tier research universities matter more than a vibrant urban core as focus shifts from talent attraction (too much competition) to talent production.