If you’ve been hoping for a break from the rain, it looks like you’ll need to be patient. A steady train of Pacific weather ...

And now Sophia Tumelty has something else in common with her sister. Like Maggie Tumelty was in 2022, Sophia Tumelty is The Columbian’s All-Region slowpitch softball player of the year for 2025.

After 17 weeks in custody, Adolfo Barajas Cano, 33, walked out of the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma on Oct. 8 thanks to a pair of federal court rulings that restored access to bond hearing ...

No matter how massive the mess, how rampant the weeds, how damaged or dangerous the building, or how much neighbors complain, efforts by local government to remedy neighborhood nuisances take time. So ...

When Merat Behnam first gathered enough courage to ride her yellow scooter through the gridlocked streets of Iran’s capital to the coffee shop she runs, traffic wasn’t her main worry.

When Kendrick Lamar began his Super Bowl halftime show earlier this year, he picked a stage design likely familiar to anyone tuning in: a square, triangle, cross and circle.

The year in publishing saw such notable releases as the latest “Hunger Games” novel and the first book in years from Thomas Pynchon. Readers also sought life advice from Mel Robbins, campai ...

The Trump administration’s latest move to enforce standards for commercial truck drivers, by flagging nearly half of the driving schools as noncompliant, doesn’t figure to disrupt the industry, expert ...

When pastry chef Tino Gierig is asked what the famous Dresden stollen tastes like, his eyes sparkle and his voice rises to an enthusiastic sing-song as he describes the rich delica ...

If I asked you to name a holiday flower, my guess is poinsettia, amaryllis or paperwhite would be the first to come to mind. But there’s another, underused seasonal plant that deserves attention.

Videos are circulating that appear to show a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement SUV running over a man’s legs as agents ...

George Washington was quite the man. Life handed him the keys to this brand-new country, and instead of clinging to the steering wheel until he drew his last breath, he pulled over and let someone ...