PORT ANGELES — The Clallam County commissioners and the Makah Tribe are preparing to send a letter to the state Department of Transportation asking it to repair state Highway 112 between Port Angeles ...

There's also criticism of our report on a math curriculum for youngsters in Massachusetts, and of our story on charges of illegal whaling against a group of Makah Indians in Washington state.

Makah Tribal Chairman Timothy J ... Groups including The Nature Conservancy and Sierra Club that once opposed a hunt, wrote letters in support of the tribe. The controversy wasn’t limited ...

The whaling proposal announced on the front page of the PDN is very sad. (“Hearing set on NOAA plan for Makah whale hunts,” PDN, April 5-6) After watching a special on television regarding putting our ...

Many of the letters The Times has published so far about the Makah’s recent unauthorized gray whale hunt have been indignant, referring to the whales as “beautiful,” “intelligent,” etc.

[“NOAA study could set stage for Makah whaling to resume,” Local News, March 6]. Ocean acidification is affecting many forms of sea life, possibly even the bottom-dwelling amphipods on which ...

A single road provides access to the town of Neah Bay, Washington, on the Makah Reservation—a narrow ribbon of asphalt that skirts the lush cloak of evergreen skyscrapers called the Olympic Rainforest ...

Three wildfires are burning on the Makah Indian Reservation in Clallam County Thursday. The fires are burning near Cape Flattery, Hobuck Beach and in the interior of the reservation, according to ...

It has been 25 years since the Makah tribe last harpooned a gray whale, a practice its members consider a sacred tradition but was restricted by federal regulation. But on Thursday, the tribe was ...

The Makah did so on February 14, 2005, seeking to take up to five whales a year. In a recent letter to the Makah, a representative from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA ...

SEATTLE — The United States granted the Makah Indian Tribe in Washington state a long-sought waiver Thursday that helps clear the way for its first sanctioned whale hunts since 1999 and sets the ...