Washington since 2013. The murder-suicide in Belfair last month was the second mass shooting in Washington this year, and the tenth since 2013. A mass shootin ...

For years, the complaints languished with Washington state education officials. A therapist emailed about a teenage boy with severe autism, who had wailed for hours inside a locked room in her school, ...

In its ambitious rise to become one of the largest hospital systems in the country, Providence Health & Services struck a deal in 2011 to claim a Seattle-area rival, Swedish Health. Providence added ...

IJUANA, Mexico — The border fence separating the United States and Mexico runs right into the crashing surf of the Pacific Ocean at a beachside neighborhood called Playas de Tijuana. The Mexican side ...

Carrie Davidson, Lillian’s great-granddaughter, runs her hands over the faded photograph as she sits on a sofa in her Auburn home. She keeps it in a plain wooden box along with pine cones and a broken ...

A confused 38-year-old father in Kentucky rarely crawled out of bed. A conservation volunteer in Iowa lost feeling in his hands and feet. A 5-year-old girl in South King County doubled over in pain ...

ELWHA RIVER — The Elwha watershed is booming with new life, after the world’s largest dam removal. The first concrete went flying in September 2011, and Elwha Dam was out the following March. Glines ...

Gin, long the tipple of elegant garden parties and breezy summertime cocktails, is finding a foothold in the state’s burgeoning distilling industry. Made by infusing a neutral spirit with juniper and ...

With a splash, the hunt was on. Orca K35 dived to 100 feet, pulsing bullets of sound into the dark depths, exploring for prey. Scientists, recording his dive on a special device temporarily attached ...

NO RESTAURANT is essential. Dining out is a luxury, obviously. And new restaurants are opening in newly luxurious Seattle at an overwhelming pace — hundreds over the past year. With so much novelty, ...

It is said baseball is a game of inches. In reality, it’s a game of milliseconds. Consider baseball’s most basic interaction – the one that takes place 60 feet, 6 inches apart roughly 300 times a game ...

A joint project by The Seattle Times and The Columbian For a look at how districts are trying to address the issue, stay tuned for the next piece in this three-part series, a collaboration between The ...