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The portrait that emerged from her discovery, called Leavitt's Law, showed that the universe was hundreds of times bigger than astronomers had imagined. This article is part of Overlooked , [...]

A liberal Republican who became a third-party governor, he was known for his fierce criticism of Nixon and later termed Donald Trump ''a total con artist.'' Lowell P. Weicker Jr., [...]

In a Treacherous Corner of Washington, a Classroom With 40-Foot Waves We're exploring how America defines itself one place at a time. Shipwrecks over the last two centuries have shaped [...]

In a Treacherous Corner of Washington, a Classroom With 40-Foot Waves We’re exploring how America defines itself one place at a time. Shipwrecks over the last two centuries have shaped [...]

Byline: Ruth Fremson and Kirk Johnson Life Was Built Around Snow. What Happens When It Vanishes? The sun set over the shoulder of Mount Adams at 8:38 p.m., and the [...]

Life Was Built Around Snow. What Happens When It Vanishes? The sun set over the shoulder of Mount Adams at 8:38 p.m., and the temperature around the sacred stone circle [...]

Byline: Kirk Johnson SUMAS, Wash. - Cattle bellowed in fear, chest-deep in icy waters. An electronic grain-distribution system that feeds tens of thousands of farm animals across Washington State sat [...]

SUMAS, Wash. -- Cattle bellowed in fear, chest-deep in icy waters. An electronic grain-distribution system that feeds tens of thousands of farm animals across Washington State sat wet and useless. [...]

ENUMCLAW, Wash. -- Three thousand feet up, just after dawn on a recent morning, McKenna Secrist reached over the rim of a metal-framed wicker gondola and released a handful of [...]

Byline: Kirk Johnson and Sergio Olmos The demonstrations that swept the country after George Floyd's death lived on for much of the year in Portland, a city now engaged in [...]

The demonstrations that swept the country after George Floyd's death lived on for much of the year in Portland, a city now engaged in finger-pointing and a debate over what [...]

Byline: Kirk Johnson In nonbinding elections, parts of eastern Oregon said they wanted to join Idaho. The conservative region has long felt alienated from the liberal politics of Oregon's population [...]

In nonbinding elections, parts of eastern Oregon said they wanted to join Idaho. The conservative region has long felt alienated from the liberal politics of Oregon's population centers. Political divisions [...]

The family lost its home of 60 years to foreclosure after taking out mortgages to pay legal fees. Some advocates say gentrification and skyrocketing prices are driving Black families out [...]

Marijuana measures are on the ballot in several states that once resisted them. Oregon would go further with a proposal to decriminalize drugs like heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine. Oregon has [...]

Byline: Kirk Johnson Many have fallen into disrepair, the victims of mismanagement, political strife or abandonment. Now there's an effort to restore and protect them. Maggie L. Walker, one of [...]

Many have fallen into disrepair, the victims of mismanagement, political strife or abandonment. Now there's an effort to restore and protect them. Maggie L. Walker, one of the first Black [...]

City officials have vowed to dismantle the free-protest area set up during anti-police demonstrations and retake the Capitol Hill police station. But worries of confrontation have delayed a resolution. SEATTLE [...]

MOUNT VERNON, Wash. -- When the Mount Vernon High School Bulldogs faced off against their basketball rivals a generation ago, five friends from the class of 1994 were the spark [...]

The Alaskan city 200 miles from the Arctic Circle was one of the first in the country to reopen restaurants after a long coronavirus shutdown. FAIRBANKS, Alaska -- Most of [...]

Clinics that treat the poor and uninsured are facing hard times just when they are most needed. The coronavirus pandemic has depleted their revenues. SEATTLE -- Providers of health care [...]

Byline: Kirk Johnson The prohibition on public gatherings imposed as a result of the coronavirus has made it difficult to memorialize those who have died of complications from the virus [...]

The prohibition on public gatherings imposed as a result of the coronavirus has made it difficult to memorialize those who have died of complications from the virus -- or anything [...]

''Seattle is freaking out,'' one man said as he passed a Starbucks in downtown Seattle that was closed after an employee tested positive for the coronavirus. SEATTLE -- Machele Miely, [...]

SEATTLE -- Howard Schultz faced a full-court press of troubles as 2006 began. That the Seattle SuperSonics were lousy, having their worst season in 20 years, was only the beginning. [...]

SEATTLE -- Jay Inslee, the governor of Washington and former member of Congress who has made climate change and the environment his signature issues, jumped into the crowded field of [...]

HIRAM, Ga. -- Only time will tell whether Michael Cohen's testimony to a congressional committee on Wednesday was a blip or a major chapter in the story of Donald Trump's [...]

PORTLAND, Ore. -- The one-day immunization clinic at David Douglas High School in Portland, Ore., was hectic on Saturday, with a wait of 45 minutes to over an hour just [...]

SEATTLE -- Sorry, Siri. Turn-by-turn driving directions just won't suffice in a big Seattle snowstorm.Did you say turn left? No can do. It's an icy hill, and the prospect of [...]

SEATTLE -- Measles, declared eliminated as a major public health threat in the United States almost 20 years ago, has re-emerged this winter in the Pacific Northwest and other states [...]

SEATTLE -- As cars and pedestrians passed by during the evening rush on Thursday, Paula Harper-Christensen, a retired teacher, smiled and waved her sign with an upside-down Starbucks mermaid. ''Don't [...]

SEATTLE -- Leslie Christian recently added unusual language to her living will: After death, she hoped her remains would be reduced to soil and spread around to help out some [...]

WASHINGTON -- When the government shut down in late December, Morgan McKay offered free pizza and wine to furloughed and otherwise unpaid federal workers at her popular Denver restaurant, Oblio's.Ms. [...]

Tanisha Keller, a single mother who works for the federal Census Bureau, used to live paycheck to paycheck. Now, she is living nothing to nothing.Payday would have come this week [...]

SEATTLE -- Kurt Cobain performed in a grubby club underneath it. Drivers called it a road of kings, four wide open lanes far above the pedestrian horde. And generations of [...]

BLAINE, Wash. -- This town near the border of Canada is home to only 5,500 residents, but it has about 20 mailbox stores -- so many that the town recently [...]

SEATTLE -- The announcement that came over the intercom on Southwest Flight 3606 from Seattle to Dallas on Sunday had nothing to do with turbulence. It was not about connecting [...]

ANCHORAGE -- Monica Bradbury stood bundled in her coat in the hall of the elementary school where she was dropping off her daughters, ages 7 and 10. It was close [...]

Byline: KIRK JOHNSON PARADISE, Calif. -- One huge fire was caused by a spark set off by a man with a hammer, working on a fence post in a field [...]

PARADISE, Calif. -- One huge fire was caused by a spark set off by a man with a hammer, working on a fence post in a field of dry vegetation. [...]

Byline: KIRK JOHNSON CENTRALIA, Wash. -- The last coal mine in Washington State closed down about a decade ago in Centralia, about 65 miles south of Seattle, leaving scars on [...]

PORTLAND, Ore. -- The last Republican governor of Oregon left the State Capitol more than 30 years ago. Yet Gov. Kate Brown, the latest Democrat to hold the office, suddenly [...]

CENTRALIA, Wash. -- The last coal mine in Washington State closed down about a decade ago in Centralia, about 65 miles south of Seattle, leaving scars on the land and [...]

Gov. Bill Walker of Alaska, a political independent who has been fighting an uphill battle for a second term, suspended his campaign on Friday and announced he was throwing his [...]

DRAIN, Ore. -- All the county libraries closed in this wooded corner of Oregon when the money ran out. But believers in the power of books rejected that fate, and [...]

SEATTLE -- The lieutenant governor of Alaska, Byron Mallott, resigned abruptly on Tuesday after making what Gov. Bill Walker, a political Independent, called ''inappropriate'' but unspecified comments. The resignation threw [...]

SEATTLE -- Washington became the latest state to end the death penalty on Thursday, following a scathing State Supreme Court decision that declared the practice unconstitutional. The ruling commuted the [...]

The article presents the discussion on snowmelt feding rivers and traditions for generations. Topics include lives, businesses, communities and cultures founded on the premise of deep snow in the pan of the Pacific Northwest; and causing infestations of mold and other plant diseases having plagued wheat and rye fields.

SALEM, Oregon -- Women have changed the political landscape this year from New York to Alaska, winning a flood of nominations to run for Congress and state legislatures. But in [...]

SEATTLE -- Federal prosecutors here announced on Thursday that they had charged two men with sexual assault aboard airplanes, violations that have become an increasingly recognized problem for passengers, the [...]