Lucy Gilliam, PhD, and Captain Arjen van der Veen are water people—it’s their life’s work. She is an environmental scientist; he founded a green freight shipping company. But water is also their home.

Seattle houseboat owners say they're getting squeezed by an unfriendly city government. The city's plan to update its shoreline rules includes not just a ban on new floating homes but on what are ...

All three of those tenets are found within the one-bedroom, two-bath abode, which replaced an aging houseboat that had occupied the slip for decades. The prior home had sat on an old-growth log float ...