Surprisingly, phones are not the leading cause of distractions for teen drivers; it’s their friends. Research from the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety indicates that when a teen driver has only teen ...

First, accepting fact-based information is the single most significant principle for successfully responding to climate change. The ability to accept peer-reviewed science and information outside of ...

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After Budget finds animal hairs in Bernard Sia’s rental car, it charges him a $125 cleaning fee. But Sia doesn’t have a pet.

Then there is the Hanford cleanup. Recent projections for cost and completion of the task of cleaning up radioactive and toxic wastes at the nuclear facility in southwest Washington now has brought ...

Prep roundup for Friday, May 3: (Note for coaches/scorekeepers: To report results and statistics, email sports@heraldnet.com.

Spain’s capital, like its population, is relatively young. In medieval times, Madrid was just another village, but under several successive kings it transformed to a European capital. Today the ...

If the air travel industry were a country, its emissions would rank behind only six other nations; and airlines are planning to add tens of thousands of new planes in the next two decades. That makes ...

The Mukilteo-based Blue Royals Volleyball Academy’s U13 team is headed to nationals for the second straight year. The Royals ...

James McNeal was giving Liliya Guyvoronsky, 20, about $10,000 per month, charging papers say. King County prosecutors charged him with murder Friday.

With the NFL Draft complete and the newcomers arriving Thursday for this weekend’s rookie minicamp, the Seattle Seahawks can continue their offseason program with most of their roster in place. Here’s ...