The Federal Reserve cut interest rates for the first time in four years on Wednesday, with an unexpectedly significant ...

Paul Burgess at times feels like he’s chasing his tail. When he became executive director of Fourth Plain Forward in 2022, he was the only employee. Since then, the nonprofit founded to energize the n ...

Ann T. Anthony (1924-2018), wrote this story for The Associated Press in 1996 when she was 71. She was married in 1946 — the ...

In arguments before the Supreme Court, proponents of affirmative action claimed that the number of Black students admitted to selective colleges and universities would plummet absent affirmative actio ...

The aroma of fresh peaches in the orchard was intoxicating when my husband and I took our 8-year-old grandson peach picking at The Powerlines U-Pick (on Northeast 18th Street in Vancouver) on a sunny ...

I have a friend who is dividing her perennial flowers and has offered to share them with me. She has a big variety and my space is limited. What would you suggest I plant?

Americans can now renew their passports online, bypassing a cumbersome mail-in paper application process that often caused delays.

Some public figures are honored with namesake buildings or monuments. Veteran broadcaster Connie Chung has a strain of ...

Rabi Asghar, 37, didn’t realize just how expensive divorced life would be until after the paperwork was filed and the dust had settled.

From lower Columbia River, Rocky Point/Tongue Point line upstream to Bonneville Dam there were 822 salmonid boats and 98 ...

An artwork featuring the plaster face casts of hundreds of transgender people went on display Wednesday in London’s Trafalgar ...

At the end of her new memoir, Hillary Clinton offers up what sounds like a far-off wish: “I hope I’m alive to see the United ...