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While central Puget Sound voters were debating the merits and then defeating the $18 billion package of roads and other transit projects called Proposition 1 earlier this month, a smaller group of citizens was putting together its own proposals to improve the region’s congested transportation network.

For more than a decade geoscientists have detected what amount to ultra-slow-motion earthquakes under Western Washington and British Columbia on a regular basis, about every 14 months.

Earth tremors not linked to volcanic activity first turned up in seismic observations several years ago, but those tremors were almost exclusively in subduction zones such as the Cascadia region off the coast of the Pacific Northwest.

Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Provost Phyllis Wise announced that she has selected Ana Mari Cauce as the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, which provides a liberal arts education to more than 25,000 students, with faculty who conduct research or scholarship in the arts, humanities, natural sciences and social sciences.

The Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ College of Architecture and Urban Planning will celebrate its three latest inductees at a Roll of Honor event the evening of Jan.

Some salmon make one heck of a commute.