Pacific Northwest

At least twice a year, a team of scientists on NOAA's research vessel Bell M. Shimada survey waters along the Washington and Oregon coast.

The National Weather Service has issued a special weather statement as the several areas of Oregon will see temperatures in the 90s on Saturday, Sunday and Monday.

People with an interest in geography or Pacific Northwest history are coming up with replacement names for dozens of places around the region that currently have a name considered derogatory. The U.S. Secretary of the Interior launched the search for new names by ordering a specific racial slur stricken off the map nationwide as expeditiously as possible.

President Joe Biden will travel to Portland and Seattle next week, his first visit to the region as president.

After experiencing a relatively dry January, the Pacific Northwest is enduring heavy amounts of rainfall from an atmospheric river event.

When two Northwest women encountered barriers to feeling confident as cyclists, they teamed up to conquer them and help others do the same.

Oysters, like wine, take their flavor from the distinct character of the places they're grown.

Record-breaking heat took a heavy toll on the Northwest this summer, from beaches to cities to mountaintops. In the Washington Cascades, some glaciers lost an unprecedented 8% to 10% of their ice in a single hot season.

Whale watchers have spotted a record number of humpback calves in inland Pacific Northwest waters this season. There was also a record streak of Bigg's killer whale sightings that just ended, according to a local whale research nonprofit. Those observations offer some good news to offset the ongoing concern about the survival of the Northwest's iconic, but critically endangered resident orcas.

Recent rain and wind across Western Oregon provide an early fall warning that winter weather is coming. And with it, could come a hazard we really haven’t had to deal with before: flash flooding.