Hal Bernton

The commission has been forced, due to budgetary constraints, to sharply reduce the scope of ocean surveys that help assess halibut populations at a time when stocks appear to be at or near record lows.

UNALASKA — The orca pod that forages in the waters just north of this Aleutian island are quick to swarm any halibut boat with a skipper foolish enough to drop lines in their domain. As the …

The Trump administration's deportation push has caused turmoil within the state's farm labor workforce as federal legislation meant to improve the situation has stalled.

Hal Bernton Hal Bernton is a Pacific Northwest journalist who worked at The Seattle Times for more than two decades, and prior to that at The Oregonian and the Anchorage Daily News.

Aaron Clark, a vice president for Price Warehouse & Cold Storage, focuses on hiring local workers for apple harvests grown on some 3,500 acres of

UNION GAP, Wash. — On a chilly fall morning, farmworkers fanned out through an orchard here to pick rose-hued apples from green rows of trees that flank this central Washington valley's irrigated slopes.

Skinny whales dying in Pacific Northwest waters during the spring migration signal a population in decline

Skinny whales dying in Pacific Northwest waters during the spring migration signal a population in decline, experts warn.

An innovator in the apple orchards separates from her family to return to Mexico. In Congress, a bi-partisan bill to legalize many undocumented workers struggles to gain a hearing.

An innovator in the apple orchards separates from her family to return to Mexico. In Congress, a bipartisan bill to legalize many undocumented workers struggles to gain a hearing.