The Senate took the first step to end the government shutdown on Sunday after a group of moderate Democrats agreed to proceed ...

Federal aviation officials issued an order Saturday for McDonnell Douglas MD-11 planes not to be flown pending further ...

People in some U.S. states were able to buy groceries with federally funded SNAP benefits this weekend, while those elsewhere ...

Health care providers have long suggested that stressed-out patients spend time outdoors. Now hundreds of providers are going a step further and issuing formal prescriptions to get out ...

Conservatives — true conservatives, as in the Ronald Reagan brand — have a problem. The movement has been invaded by the “alt-right” (or alternative right), a brand that is not conservative, but rathe ...

A court in Paris will decide whether to release France's former President Nicolas Sarkozy from prison on Monday, just 20 days after he was incarcerated.

After carefully choosing the freshest produce at the market, people face even more choices with vegetables, fruit, meat and dairy products at home that can help prolong freshness, minimize waste and p ...

Cheers: To the arts. The Vancouver City Council has approved funding for the first phase of renovations at the Vancouver Arts Hub. The facility is at the former FVRLibraries site along Mill Plain Boul ...

Bravo to Senate Majority Leader John Thune and other Republican senators for refusing to even consider President Donald Trump’s demand to get rid of the filibuster that protects the rights of the cham ...

In the last year of his life, former Vice President Dick Cheney issued one of his final public statements to defend the country against what he said was one of the most dangerous forces it had ever co ...

This school year, students in elementary, middle and high schools in some states will get a new lesson on safety: what to do if they find a firearm.

For the first time in more than a century, migrating salmon have climbed close to the headwaters of the Klamath River’s most far-flung tributaries, as much as 360 miles from the Pacific Ocean in south ...