On a recent afternoon, families, young adults, older couples, church ladies and business people filled Al & Ernie’s Bakery, a popular new addition to downtown.

No dogs, no Negros, no Mexicans.” “Colored served in rear.” “For whites only.” It’s the type of signage that hung from the doors and windows of establishments across much of the American South for ma ...

Over the past year, The Associated Press asked Britons — from George Washington’s ancestral home near Scotland to Cambridge, Bristol and London — a neutral question: “What do you think of America now?

Thanks to “Heated Rivalry,” hockey hunks — and their love stories — are having a moment. Prime Video’s “Off Campus” is the next show hoping to score with viewers.

World-famous as the resting place of Napoleon, the gilded dome of the Invalides in Paris draws millions of visitors. But behind the landmark’s grand façade lies a lesser-known mission: servin ...

SAN FRANCISCO — The American obsession with the iPhone is complicated, as most love-hate relationships are.

Three Clark County Banner Bank employees have been selected to receive the Banner’s Best award, representing the highest ...

A teenage Buddhist lama recently blessed thousands at a monastery in the Himalayan foothills. Just six months earlier and half a world away, he was pulling all-nighters to play Madden NFL on his Xbox ...

In Paris, police deployed tear gas. In Milan, Italy, a fistfight erupted. In London, Singapore and New York, all-night queues snaked from the doors of Swatch stores — the latest examples of s ...

Angela L. Boyle, 54, Vancouver, died May 20, 2026. Brown’s Funeral Home and Cremation Services, 360-834-3692. Gary Russell ...

Want to see the Liberty Bell this semi-quincentennial but don’t have the time or cheese for a pilgrimage to Philadelphia? Have no fear: Chances are, there’s one at a state Capitol, mus ...

In 1985, a 13-year-old girl in New Zealand spotted a pair of purple, lip-shaped sunglasses in Young Miss magazine. In March, I traveled 9,000 miles from New Hampshire to deliver them t ...