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Strait of Juan de Fuca

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2012

    It's Not On the Menu, But Bastille's Jason Stoneburner Craves His Surf and Turf

    While many chefs in the Northwest hit the local waters for fishing, Bastille's Jason Stoneburner uses them for shredding. He's a surfer. Blond and blue-eyed, this Florida-raised lad fits a pretty standard description of a surfer boy who cuts out of school to catch a few waves when the sun is out, bu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 7, 2012

    Mystery of the Floating Feet Solved: No Mafia, No Murderers - Not Even Much of a Mystery

    In recent years, investigators around Vancouver and Northwest Washington were counting suspected crime by the foot. Nine of them - human feet belonging to seven individuals - came bobbing ashore inside their late owners' sneakers from 2007 through 2011, generating dramatic headlines. In one short st ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 27, 2011

    Why Joseph Nosse Lost His Command: Bangor N-Sub Almost Collides with Cargo Ship in Strait

    We now know why the Navy chose its words so carefully after announcing it had relieved Joseph Nosse as commander of the Bangor-based Trident ballistic-missile submarine USS Kentucky in October. A "loss of confidence" in the Navy skipper sounds a lot less scarier than admitting his submerged nuclear ... More >>

  • Arts

    August 3, 2011

    The Chainsaw and the Easel

    In SAM's worthwhile companion shows, a century between them, are two visions of the American landscape.

  • News

    July 27, 2011

    Nowhere-Near-the-Border Patrol in Forks

    How a flush government agency found trouble in the coastal home of Twilight.

  • Blogs

    March 14, 2011

    History Lesson: Massive Earthquake in Pacific Northwest Triggered Japan Tsunami in 1700

    ​About 300 years before the current earthquake/tsunami disaster in Japan, another wave of water swept the Island nation, wreaking havoc and laying waste to entire coastal villages. That tsunami was caused by a massive quake--estimated to have been a magnitude 9.0--that rocked the entire Pacifi ... More >>

  • News

    November 24, 2010

    For Adam Parfrey, Publishing the Unabomber's Book Is All In a Day's Work

    "America's most dangerous publisher" lives in Port Townsend and enrages readers worldwide.

  • News

    June 23, 2010

    How Rossi Tried to Brown Up the State

    A look back at his environmental votes.

  • News

    December 10, 2008

    Where the Feet Have No Name

    Body parts washing up on Pacific Northwest shores are no cause for alarm to one UW oceanographer.

  • News

    May 3, 2006

    The Middle-Aged Man and the Sea

    Wind, speed, and the abyss: the shrunken world of hard-core yacht racing.

  • News

    January 4, 2006

    Strongman of the North

    Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens is, by his own account, a 'mean, miserable SOB.' He's also a powerful SOB who has effectively become Washington's third senator. He wants to drill in ANWR and see more tankers cruising Puget Sound, but his overreaching may be a godsend for Maria Cantwell in 2006.

  • News

    December 7, 2005

    City Hall, Federal Politics, Quote

    Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens is, by his own account, a 'mean, miserable SOB.' He's also a powerful SOB who has effectively become Washington's third senator. He wants to drill in ANWR and see more tankers cruising Puget Sound, but his overreaching may be a godsend for Maria Cantwell in 2006.

  • News

    October 12, 2005

    Tankers in the Sound?

    Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens is, by his own account, a 'mean, miserable SOB.' He's also a powerful SOB who has effectively become Washington's third senator. He wants to drill in ANWR and see more tankers cruising Puget Sound, but his overreaching may be a godsend for Maria Cantwell in 2006.

  • News

    March 2, 2005

    Elwha Elegy

    A major archaeological find forces an Olympic Peninsula town to re-examine the past and the future.

  • News

    May 28, 2003

    Letters to the Editor

    . . . [Mark D. Fefer] should get out of the kitchen and go back to reviewing jazz Muzakthe real Seattle sound.

  • News

    May 21, 2003

    Strait Flush

    The floating 'crap' game that is the cruise-ship industry.

  • News

    May 14, 2003

    Pier Pressure

    Cruise-ship protesters say the Port is denying them access to public property.

  • News

    October 23, 2002

    Feds Not Towing the Line

    Will the Coast Guard balk at funding an oil-spill-prevention tug at Neah Bay?

  • News

    July 31, 2002

    FREE SPRINGER!

    But while the Northwest pulled together to save one sickly whale, the remaining Puget Sound orcas face an uncertain future.

  • News

    July 31, 2002

    Who's Watching the Water?

    What is the effect of the relationships between the Coast Guard's top brass and the shipping industry?

  • News

    May 23, 2001

    News Clips— Hits/Duds

    What is the effect of the relationships between the Coast Guard's top brass and the shipping industry?

  • News

    December 22, 1999

    War of tugs

    Oil spill crusaders finally get their rescue boats—sort of.

  • Arts

    December 15, 1999

    Picture This

    Mapping the history of the Pacific Northwest—and other visual offerings.

  • News

    November 17, 1999

    Ten years after

    Mapping the history of the Pacific Northwest—and other visual offerings.

  • News

    September 15, 1999

    "Why aren't Geov Parrish and his friends sticking up for that single mom? What about her interests, her emotions, and her right to be able to purchase whatever she needs at the best price?"

    Mapping the history of the Pacific Northwest—and other visual offerings.

  • News

    September 8, 1999

    Yo lo Tenyo

    Mapping the history of the Pacific Northwest—and other visual offerings.

  • News

    August 11, 1999

    Proper Victorians

    Mapping the history of the Pacific Northwest—and other visual offerings.

  • News

    June 23, 1999

    Cool house

    Mapping the history of the Pacific Northwest—and other visual offerings.

  • News

    May 26, 1999

    Whales and moans

    Mapping the history of the Pacific Northwest—and other visual offerings.

  • News

    March 24, 1999

    The tug that could

    Mapping the history of the Pacific Northwest—and other visual offerings.

  • News

    March 10, 1999

    White Guard Black Guard

    Racial tension in Washington State prisons isn't limited to the inmates. Some guards allege that the Department of Corrections is a 'White Regime' that tolerates racism — even Neo Nazis — within its ranks.

  • News

    March 10, 1999

    Hundreds of gorgeous bills and three ugly ones! Or something like that.

    Racial tension in Washington State prisons isn't limited to the inmates. Some guards allege that the Department of Corrections is a 'White Regime' that tolerates racism — even Neo Nazis — within its ranks.

  • News

    March 10, 1999

    The ships hit the fan

    The 'New Carissa' crack-up and other near-disasters show why rescue tugs are needed, and why they might not be enough.

  • News

    January 27, 1999

    Angel of Death

    A year ago, bucolic Port Angeles was rocked by the death of 3-day-old Conor McInnerney. Now one emergency-room doctor is on trial for his murder, and the supervising ER doctor is in a mental hospital.

  • News

    January 6, 1999

    That was the year that will be

    A year ago, bucolic Port Angeles was rocked by the death of 3-day-old Conor McInnerney. Now one emergency-room doctor is on trial for his murder, and the supervising ER doctor is in a mental hospital.

  • News

    December 9, 1998

    Letters

    Break with tradition

  • News

    November 25, 1998

    Pyshed off

    Break with tradition

  • News

    November 25, 1998

    Letters

    Victimized Vikings

  • News

    November 18, 1998

    Free Buddy

    The lose-lose war at Neah Bay.

  • News

    October 28, 1998

    Chevron's switch

    The lose-lose war at Neah Bay.

  • News

    October 21, 1998

    Dire strait

    Not even Al Gore can get shippers to accept tug protection against oil spills. Here come the storms—and one last hope.

  • News

    October 7, 1998

    Letters

    Chickens of the sea

  • News

    September 16, 1998

    Wonder boat

    While the state, feds, and shippers wrestle over how to prevent an oil-spill catastrophe, a stopgap "windfall" solution appears.

  • News

    September 16, 1998

    Killer Salmon

    Farm-raised Atlantic salmon are spreading disease and genetic weakness throughout Puget Sound and threatening to destroy native salmon in the process.

  • News

    September 2, 1998

    Westernized

    Farm-raised Atlantic salmon are spreading disease and genetic weakness throughout Puget Sound and threatening to destroy native salmon in the process.

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