Since the city of Vancouver opened a winter shelter next to an elementary school in mid-December, it’s been packed with an unexpectedly high proportion of families with young children, staff say.

DeWayne Ledbetter of Portland and Lee Rafferty of Vancouver swing at Esther Short Park in downtown Vancouver at the Parks Foundation's 2017 Swing More 24. Give More 24! is returning to Southwest ...

An aircraft developed by Boom Supersonic became the first independently funded jet to break the sound barrier this week. The XB-1 aircraft accelerated to Mach 1.05 at about 35,000 feet during a test f ...

While we’ve been distracted by wildfire tragedies and the dizzying stream of Project 2025-inspired directives flowing from the Oval Office, we cannot forget that the Republican-led war on women’s repr ...

Ten steps forward, 50 steps back. That’s what the sum of progress in the U.S. feels like for many who believe in civil and human rights following President Donald Trump’s executive order against diver ...

For more than 470 days, Eitan Gonen publicly pleaded with his daughter to stay alive while in Hamas captivity. He didn’t know if she would hear him, but he ended every intervi ...

Shasti Conrad thinks the way Democrats went about winning Washington elections last year is a formula for success nationwide.

When Oregon banned retailers and restaurants from giving out plastic, single-use checkout bags in 2019, environmental groups hailed it as a big step forward in the fight against plastic waste.

Cheers: To Drosophila melanogaster. It seems unlikely that we would cheer fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster is the scientific name), but some interesting work is being done with the pests at Washin ...

The startling “cold open” for a documentary about 50 years of “Saturday Night Live” music is proof that a musician — a specific kind of musician — had to put it together.

Say what you will about President Donald Trump’s tortured relationship with the press; at least he’s accessible. Trump has brutalized the media and is a big reason trust has eroded in the fourth estat ...

Kudos for the article “Which U.S. companies are pulling back on diversity initiatives?” (The Columbian, Jan. 25). At last, now I know the names of some of the corporate sheeples who are joining Trump’ ...