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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

FAIRBANKS, Alaska -- Monica Laakso, a bar manager married to a utility lineman, saw her monthly food bill jump by $200. The Fairbanks Senior Center had to eliminate cookie treats [...]

SEATTLE -- The woman in the painting by the French artist Jean-Pierre Cassigneul that greeted visitors as they entered the Seattle Art Fair last week looked confident, rich and perhaps [...]

SEATTLE -- The story is as bizarre as it is tragic: An airline worker who had no business being in a cockpit somehow took off from a major airport in [...]

PORTLAND, Ore. -- An F.B.I. agent was found not guilty on Friday of lying to investigators about firing his rifle during a 2016 confrontation when a leader of an armed [...]

PORTLAND, Ore. -- A bullet struck the cab of a truck, and a law enforcement officer lied about firing the shot. Those were the two key facts that federal jurors [...]

PORTLAND, Ore. -- When Callista Fink told her father 10 years ago that she was moving to Oregon's largest city, his response was immediate: ''You're moving to a place with [...]

WASHINGTON -- For years, Cody Wilson, a champion of gun-rights and anarchism from Texas, has waged a battle to post on the internet the blueprints for making plastic guns on [...]

CASCADE LOCKS, Ore. -- He posted photos of himself on Facebook as he hiked hundreds of miles of the vast Pacific Crest Trail, masked in a bandanna to protect his [...]

In a little government building on eastern Oregon's high desert, a restaurant-grade pasta machine spits out sagebrush and grass seed tortellini. Odd, perhaps, but scientists are into it. They put [...]