Saturday at Sasquatch! was filled with music, fun, food and most importantly: sunshine. I may have left my suntan lotion at the hotel, but it was still completely worth it to get some fresh American sunshine. more ›

Remember how we wrote yesterday that six sea lions were found shot in traps in the Columbia River? Turns out they weren't shot. According to a NOAA press conference held this morning regarding the sea lion deaths, necropsies of the animals showed no evidence of recent gunshot wounds. X-rays did show metal fragments in the soft tissue of two of the sea lions, and another had a metal slug in its blubber. Another one of the sea lion victims had several shallow puncture wounds, consistent with a sea lion bite. Now that shooting as a cause of death has been ruled out, investigators say the possibilities are wide open. more ›

This weekend, the carcasses of six sea lions were found shot to death in traps on the Columbia River. Now investigators from local law enforcement and Oregon and Washington's Departments of Fisheries are looking for the sea lions' executioner. more ›

Arlington, OR [via KOMO] - Residents of this tiny town on the Columbia River are in an uproar over photos posted on mayor Carmen Kontur-Gronquist's MySpace page. more ›

LESS IS MORE: In Trance of Scarcity: Stop Holding Your Breath and Start Living Your Life, Victoria Castle asks why we feel that nothing is ever enough. Castle's book shows us how to escape this malaise and become more relaxed and alive. Hopefully it doesn't involve crisscrossing the U.S. on a book tour. more ›

Sightline's Eric de Place celebrated his own private Kyoto on Friday by congratulating the region for their collective environmental work. British Columbia, which has been slow to catch up with even the rest of Canada, has finally been pushed in the right direction by the Prime Minister's recent green initiative talk. Oregon's governor Ted Kulongoski has recently said that he wants the state to become the "clean energy capital of the nation" and released an action plan that focuses on renewable energy sources, biofuels, conservation and tax credits for investors supporting renewable energy. All great stuff. more ›

Last March we were trying to keep a stiff upper lip as we informed you that the bill banning PBDEs, a wily fire-retardant chemical, had been stifled for another year. more ›

It's Mother's Day weekend. Some people say we should remember our mothers all year-round, not just on a single day. But we do! With yo momma jokes! Seattlest contributors share their favorites, along with their plans for enforced family togetherness. more ›

Now's the time for the big salmon shows where they navigate through our local fresh waters to their birthplace where they'll lay a few million eggs and die. We hear it's really cool how they swim upstream and jump up waterfalls and get eaten by bears and orcas and McCormick and Schmick's diners. Ah, the wonders of nature. more ›

Recently, West Seattle mom (Volvo driver, PCC shopper) Karina Aldredge learned that there is strong scientific evidence that "levels of PBDEs are rising rapidly in the environment and in human bodies, particularly in North America where the use of PBDEs is the highest": more ›

Seattlest readers driving south this holiday weekend might wanna swing by the Ariel Store and Tavern on State Highway 503, 10 miles east of the I-5 Woodland exit, about 140 miles south of Seattle. Why? Every November, the tavern hosts "D.B. Cooper Days" to commemorate Thanksgiving Eve, 1971 -- the night the notorious skyjacker parachuted from a jetliner over southwest Washington with $200,000 in ransom money, never to be heard from again. more ›

The busy beavers over at Seattle's Northwest Environment Watch have taken their statistical sideshow to the wilderness. They've decided to track the health of five northwestern indicator species: gray wolves, woodland caribou, greater sage grouse, Chinook salmon, and the resident orcas off the coast of Washington and British Columbia. (Yes, Virginia, there's a chart!) more ›