Alex Schafran, a housing policy researcher, said there are benefits to both renting and owning — but that right now the Bay Area’s middle-income households are relegated to the rental market, because ...

Friday Harbor sits nestled on the eastern shore of San Juan Island, the second-largest island in an archipelago that seems designed specifically for people who need a break from mainland intensity. It ...

San Juan Island National Historical Park commemorates the Pig War—possibly history’s most peculiar international conflict, triggered by the shooting of a pig in 1859 and resolved without human ...