Environment

A $4.2 billion state bond act is clearing its bureaucratic pipeline, and rural villages are now converting grant awards into construction bids.

White-nose syndrome killed more than 90% of the state's hibernating bats. Acoustic detectors at 70+ cave and mine entrances may reveal which sites still need protecting.

A cluster of hard deadlines buried inside Washington Ecology's reissued 2024 stormwater permits is forcing procurement that dozens of jurisdictions had deferred.

A once-in-a-decade permit reissuance and a new federal construction standard have landed simultaneously, ending a decade of deferred compliance for hundreds of municipalities.

A new fuels mitigation project at Cloud Camp Ridge targets the forested slopes above the city that have already burned twice in living memory.

A new fuels mitigation project on Cloud Camp Ridge targets the same terrain that nearly fell to the Waldo Canyon fire in 2012.