In its ambitious rise to become one of the largest hospital systems in the country, Providence Health & Services struck a deal in 2011 to claim a Seattle-area rival, Swedish Health. Providence added ...

ELWHA RIVER — The Elwha watershed is booming with new life, after the world’s largest dam removal. The first concrete went flying in September 2011, and Elwha Dam was out the following March. Glines ...

With a splash, the hunt was on. Orca K35 dived to 100 feet, pulsing bullets of sound into the dark depths, exploring for prey. Scientists, recording his dive on a special device temporarily attached ...

NO RESTAURANT is essential. Dining out is a luxury, obviously. And new restaurants are opening in newly luxurious Seattle at an overwhelming pace — hundreds over the past year. With so much novelty, ...

Carrie Davidson, Lillian’s great-granddaughter, runs her hands over the faded photograph as she sits on a sofa in her Auburn home. She keeps it in a plain wooden box along with pine cones and a broken ...

IJUANA, Mexico — The border fence separating the United States and Mexico runs right into the crashing surf of the Pacific Ocean at a beachside neighborhood called Playas de Tijuana. The Mexican side ...

A joint project by The Seattle Times and The Columbian For a look at how districts are trying to address the issue, stay tuned for the next piece in this three-part series, a collaboration between The ...

For years, the complaints languished with Washington state education officials. A therapist emailed about a teenage boy with severe autism, who had wailed for hours inside a locked room in her school, ...

A confused 38-year-old father in Kentucky rarely crawled out of bed. A conservation volunteer in Iowa lost feeling in his hands and feet. A 5-year-old girl in South King County doubled over in pain ...

Content advisory: This story includes descriptions of sexual assault. Resources for survivors are available here. The schools investigated about a fifth of these reports through internal systems.

In February 1942, a few short months after the attack at Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 designating Japanese Americans as “threats” to national security.

...to something 2,000 times more powerful, a potential magnitude 9.0 quake that would shake for up to five minutes: Yet Washington lags nearly all other quake-prone states in policies to reduce the ...