Portland wants to rebuild schools even as the area struggles financially and wonders about how it has fallen behind Seattle's economic position. At least Portland's superintendent of schools is ...

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It is hard to imagine the Northwest without wilderness and outdoor recreation — mountain ranges to climb and trails to hike. These recreations exist due to the hard work and advocacy of many ...

Grace is the former social media editor at Crosscut, where she aims to find new ways to make Crosscut’s journalism useful and accessible to its online audiences. Previously, Grace was a reporter ...

The pink elephant is migrating. The playful pachyderm, whose rotating, neon-lit bulk was a beacon for countless commuters stuck in gridlock traffic on Denny Way, is being pushed out of its natural ...

Fawn Sharp, President of the Quinault Indian Nation, is the Past President of the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians, and a human rights attorney recognized by the United Nations as a global ...

The unchecked power of prosecutors has become a regular part of discussions about the United States criminal justice system. But a decade — before the rise of true-crime podcasts and bipartisan ...

Rachel Boynton's well-intentioned film about an oil company startup was 7 years and a $1 million-plus in the making. But she fails to make sense out of the prodigious amount of info she stuffs ...

The Eastern Washington city's quest to remake itself in the image of a smaller, more walkable town. “Intrepid Explorer” was not one of the job requirements for the City of Yakima’s new ...

Keith Hoeller is an Adjunct Philosophy Instructor in our community colleges and the editor of Equality for Contingent Faculty: Overcoming the Two-Tier System (Vanderbilt University Press).