A rugged territory consisting of several islands, glacier-carved valleys, and deep fjords, the rest of Washington state consists of rainforests, mountain ranges, and a semi-arid region devoted mainly to agriculture. We will visit Vancouver and Seattle in the Pacific Northwest. …

By Bethany Jean Clement From The Seattle Times Seattle—MIchela Tartaglia is the extremely charming proprietor of Pasta Casalinga in Seattle’s landmark Pike Place Market. There, in a tiny space that’s open on one side to the Market’s airy atrium, she and her staff purvey big plates of extremely good pasta, prepared with ingredients that change…

Portland, Oregon, received the first measurable snowfall in April in recorded history on Monday. One inch of snow fell at Portland International Airport, setting a record with the only measurable amount of snow there since official record-keeping began in 1940, the National Weather Service said. Schools across the Portland region were closed and some areas…

Oregon State University marine ecologist Leigh Torres has studied the gray whales along the Oregon coast for more than six years. That raises a natural question: does she have a favorite? “I like that one whale, Solé,” she told The Epoch Times. “She has a really distinct place she likes to be and foraging style.”…

PORTLAND, Ore.—People headed to cooling centers Wednesday as the Pacific Northwest began sweltering under another major, multiday heat wave. Temperatures soared to 97 degrees Fahrenheit (36.1 Celsius) by the evening in Portland, Oregon. In a “worst-case scenario,” the temperature could reach as high as 111 F (44 C) in some parts of western Oregon this…

Heat-related emergency room visits in the Pacific Northwest region surged at the end of June, when states including Oregon and Washington were gripped by a record-breaking heatwave, according to a new report (pdf) from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). As all-time temperature records were shattered in the Pacific Northwest, the mean daily number…

SPOKANE, Wash.—Record-high heat is forecast in the normally mild-weathered Pacific Northwest this weekend, raising concerns about wildfires and the health of people in a region where many people don’t have air conditioning. City officials in Seattle were opening libraries as cooling centers and crews were being sent to places in Oregon where the risk of…