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Two questions for the morning after: Who’d you vote against yesterday? And are you feeling smarter yet, now that the fog of politics is lifting?

The day after Election Day is, perhaps, not the most opportune time to point this out, but despite our lionization of citizenship and…

When marine researchers from the University of California at Santa Cruz traveled to Alaska this summer, they noticed something unsettling in the waters near Sitka: populations of starfish were losing their arms. Then other reports started pouring in to their laboratory: from Southern California…

Washington state's off-year election features a series of local votes with national implications.

In the airport city of SeaTac, a campaign backed by labor unions seeks to raise the minimum wage to $15 for many workers. In Whatcom County, an unprecedented amount of outside money is…

As a specialist in early U.S. literature, Laura Laffrado knows that once-famous women writers sometimes fall into puzzling obscurity. She also knows that some of those writers have won new attention in recent decades.

But not Ella Higginson of Bellingham.

Starting this fall, researchers from Western Washington University will study local elementary school math and science teaching methods in an attempt to figure out if specialists - those who teach only one or two subjects - are more effective than those who are expected to teach all subject…