• A region's vitality, melting away
HOOD RIVER -- The melting of Mount Hood's signature glaciers raises a crucial question for the region: How much do we depend on them and the cool meltwater they pour into rivers and creeks?

• So, what services do you want to pay for?
Is the average Beaverton homeowner more likely to buy new green space for her kids or for Rose-Tu, the Oregon Zoo's pregnant elephant?

• Kid gloves for pets in disaster
Next time a tsunami, flood or earthquake strikes Oregon, rescuers will try to save pets and livestock as well as people.

• Sheriff's deputy kills man holding gun in Clackamas
A Clackamas County sheriff's deputy shot and killed a 31-year-old Clackamas man late Saturday after the man waved a gun in a threatening manner, law-enforcement officials said.

• Lone trial begins in NW eco-terror case
SEATTLE -- Briana Waters says she isn't sure where she was early on May 21, 2001, but there's one place she wasn't: crouching in the bushes near a research center at the University of Washington, serving as a lookout for her fellow Earth Liberation Front activists as they set firebombs that illuminated the night sky and caused millions of dollars in damage.

• Educator knows dreams require a push
He was a geeky first-year student at the local community college. She was a churchgoing teenager who wanted nothing to do with him.

• A good day for biking? Too bad
With blue-gray skies, mild temperatures and only a spot of rain, Sunday seemed an unlikely host for the "Worst Day of the Year Ride."