The Justice Department said Thursday it will seek the death penalty against a member of the cultlike Zizians group accused of ...

Clark County’s Legacy Lands program is set to add 96 acres to the more than 5,500 acres of protected valleys, narrow canyons, wetlands, riparian habitat and forests the county has acquired since the p ...

Nike co-founder Phil Knight and his wife Penny Knight have pledged to donate $2 billion to Oregon Health & Science University’s Knight Cancer Institute, the university an ...

A 16-year-old boy drowned Wednesday night in the Columbia River near Frenchman’s Bar, despite a “herculean” search effort from multiple area agencies.

In August 2024, state schools Superintendent Chris Reykdal published guidance for districts and called upon them to adopt policies to reduce cellphone distraction by the start of the 2025-26 school ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom stood with other prominent Democratic leaders Thursday to announce that the state will move forward with a partisan plan to redraw congressional maps in an e ...

When President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law 90 years ago this week, he vowed it would provide economic stability to older people while giving the U.S ...

Authorities are investigating after a man was found dead July 20 near U.S. Forest Service Road 43 north of Carson.

The sternly worded statements and letters are filled with indignation and outrage: Republican U.S. lawmakers say Canada has done too little to contain wildfires and smoke that have fouled the air in s ...

National Guard troops and Humvees guarded some Washington landmarks Thursday and advocacy organizations helped clear homeless encampments in advance of an anticipated crackdown as Preside ...

Eighty years after the end of World War II, Japan and China are marking the anniversary with major events, but on different dates and in different ways.

Ashley Biden, the daughter of former President Joe Biden and former first lady Jill Biden, filed for divorce from her husband, Howard Krein, on Monday in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas.