A new mayor with no political experience in Portland has an audacious plan — some say naive — to end street homelessness.

Many big cities have seen homicide numbers return to prepandemic norms. That hasn't yet been the case in Seattle.

Mortgage rates barely budged last year. While buyers enjoyed a brief dip to just above 6% in September, rates ended the year ...

The land atop Beacon Hill has been a road median, a streetcar trackway and now a winding walkway. Here's how this strip of magic in South Seattle came to be.

King County Metro in Washington state will receive $79.7 million to support a bus rapid transit line that will provide ...

Deputies seized more than $1.3 million worth of narcotics and property as part of a "behemoth bust," which included the ...

King County and Seattle plan to use a combined $134 million to pay for the construction of 1,600 affordable homes. Seattle announced it is using $108 million toward affordable housing through its 2023 ...

The fire burned hundreds of ballots in Vancouver, Wash., as well as some in Portland in the days and weeks before the ...

The publisher of the widely appreciated Methow Valley News is mulling retirement, the latest small paper facing transition in ...

Beltrami County Offices will be closed on Monday, Jan. 20, in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The Sheriff's Office Records and Court Divisions will also be closed. The Blackduck and Kelliher ...

A free community meal celebrating Martin Luther King Day will be held from 5-7 p.m. on Monday at Austin First United Methodist Church. The meal is open to anyone and is sponsored by the City of Austin ...

But as our correspondents traversed the globe, they found pockets of light, too. New York Times reporters witnessed the dangerous fentanyl production process inside a secret lab in Culiacán run ...