Covering Mount St. Helens: The story of a lifetime
When the May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens eruption made global headlines, staff at The Daily News extensively covered the blast and its aftermath, producing 400 stories in just two weeks and continuing to follow the story for months and years. But what about the stories of the reporters behind the newspaper’s 1981 Pulitzer-winning coverage? Hear memories and stories from then-reporter Andre Stepankowsky, photo editor Roger Werth and managing editor Bob Gaston.
UA Minute in History: Joseph Wood Krutch Garden
Cactuses live a long time, but so has the University of Arizona’s Joseph Wood Krutch Garden, which has been around for 120 years. But where is it and how did it come to be?
A Modern Zoo
"A Modern Zoo" takes viewers onto the habitat and into the behind-the-scenes of Reid Park Zoo in Tucson and takes a look at the science of the wildlife conservation work being done today and in the future.
Precambrian Desert
Biosphere 2 visiting researcher Dragos Zaharescu explains his research in Precambrian conditions and the origins of life on Earth.
The Outcasts of the Castoffs: A photoblog
Shelter cats with infectious diseases. Combination of interview, research, and photography.
Woodland High School English teacher Aaron Blackwelder conferences with freshman Brook Lynn. Blackwelder has not given grades on his assignments for several years, preferring to go 'gradeless' and have evaluation conversations. Taken for The Daily News
Wlicox & Flegel Vice President Bill Hall hands boxes of foods to employees Friday morning at the Family Community Resource Center at Monticello Middle School in Longview. Taken for The Daily News.
Students hold a large American flag in the center of a ring of memorial candles during a Veteran's Day ceremony at Kelso High School.
Tall grass in the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument in Utah.
(Photograph by Marissa Heffernan)
(Photograph by Marissa Heffernan)
(Photograph by Marissa Heffernan)