The land above Cle Elum, Roslyn and Ronald stays open for hiking and hunting, with a public forum set for November 17.

A pod of Southern Resident killer whales was spotted near West Point on Wednesday while traveling south.

West Magnolia Playfield's 20-year-old equipment is getting replaced, and three new designs are up for public input.

A West Seattle dad caught a coyote hunting salmon in Longfellow Creek on his morning walk with his daughter.

Nearly 40 people peered beneath an Olympia-area marina dock, spotting color-shifting skeleton shrimp and rainbow sea slugs.

Seattle's Evergreen Chrysanthemum Association marks 79 years with a three-day show of mums you won't find at any nursery.

Seattle Parks invites visitors to Piper's Creek this weekend to watch chum salmon spawn — but stay off the riverbed.

The $275,000 Nevills Hill purchase adds 46 acres to Montesano's city forest, with a state grant covering most of the cost.

The Seattle park now has an expanded court with basketball hoops and goals, plus a play area that opened in March.

A rollover near Lynden sent bees swarming across Weidkamp Road before volunteers rebuilt hundreds of colonies by hand.

The animal covered a mile and a half of 2 Line track this week without a single collision or delay.

Up to 6,000 hikers a day are swarming Methow Valley trailheads, leaving cars stacked along the shoulder of Highway 20.

The 1931 span near White River Campground is getting a 220-foot replacement built 50 feet downstream.