Molluscan shellfish harvest from Sandy Point north to the Canadian border including all of Point Roberts reopened Thursday after Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning (PSP) biotoxin levels dropped in ...

A popular shellfish harvesting area in Western Washington is now off limits because of a potentially deadly marine toxin. State officials have issued an emergency closure for Hood Canal and portions ...

PORT TOWNSEND — Beaches in the Hood Canal, Port Ludlow and Mats Mats bays have been closed for recreational shellfish harvesting due to high paralytic shellfish poison levels in shellfish samples sent ...

WASHINGTON STATE — State health and wildlife officials have closed recreational shellfish harvesting in Hood Canal and parts of Admiralty Inlet after testing detected dangerous levels of a toxin that ...

POULSBO, Wash. — All recreational shellfish harvesting in Hood Canal is closed after the Washington State Department of Health (DOH) found deadly levels of biotoxin in shellfish samples in the area.

If you missed last month’s round of low tides, this week offers another opportunity to slip on your boots and gaze at dazzling anemone, glistening sea stars and many-legged crabs. The season’s lowest ...

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PORT TOWNSEND — Jefferson County Public Health has partially lifted its closure of shellfish harvesting from Discovery Bay. The bay had been closed to harvesting due to elevated levels of paralytic ...

An outbreak of a rare strain of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo is already the third largest in history, just weeks after it likely began. It is spreading rapidly in one of the most volatile ...

The Ebola outbreak erupting from the Ituri province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo continues to escalate wildly, with cases nearing 750, deaths reported at 177, and around 1,400 contacts now ...

Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert Redfield said Wednesday he suspects the spreading Ebola outbreak in Africa will spread across three new countries and become a ...