What is the welfare state America wants, and what is the one it can afford? This is not a question Americans are ready to discuss; so much so that their elected officials have shut down the government ...

Americans embarking on the annual task of sifting through the health plans offered by their employers to find the one that gives them the most bang for their buck are facing a new reality: many of ...

The ‘billionaire’s ballroom’ will stand as a garish monument to one man’s taste for gold-plated everything.

I have read of a proposal to add buildings and parking at a site on 20th Street NE in Lake Stevens, after removing the current coffee shop at the same location. I share great concern over the height ...

LYNNWOOD — On Aug. 5, PAWS volunteers saw a person leaving a cardboard box near a dumpster on the animal shelter’s property. “When the staff approached to gather more information, the individual ...

Coworkers began CPR before firefighters arrived. It took nearly an hour to revive the employee and rescue him from the confined space. EVERETT — Everett Fire Department credits a quick response by ...

EVERETT — A brush fire that spread to the former Edmonds Family Fun Center led to a massive response Saturday evening. Around 9:30 p.m. Saturday, firefighters responded to a passerby’s report of a ...

Washington’s lands commissioner, Dave Upthegrove, is on a mission to secure $60 million of additional wildfire funding in next year’s legislative session, despite a tightening budget outlook. On ...

John Schneider and his staff are always monitoring what’s going on around the league, so as the NFL’s trade deadline approaches on Nov. 4, the Seattle Seahawks’ general manager likely has his guys ...

From the looks of it, the Jeep Gladiator is a Wrangler. Except that it isn’t. Gladiator has a 5-foot steel bed in back, which makes it a pickup truck. In front of the bed, however, is what appears to ...

MUKILTEO — Citizens in Mukilteo will see new faces on the City Council after the November election as three incumbents did not file to run for reelection. The City Council is Mukilteo’s governing body ...

We learned last week that a cohort of Republican activists and political staff members had shared racist and misogynist messages in a private text chat. It’s a story that repeats itself with ...