The Trump administration has fired about 1,000 newly hired National Park Service employees who maintain and clean parks, educate visitors and perform other functions as part of its broad- ...

Evelyn Seabrook was able to buy a home even though she had only a high school diploma. Glenn Flood worked his way up the career ladder to become a public affairs officer for former D ...

In the discussion pro/con for building light rail on a new Interstate 5 Bridge, many people embrace the idea of using buses instead. What opponents to light rail fail to consider is that bus service w ...

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In Germany, they have dumpsters at the edge of the grocery stores’ parking lots: One for brown glass, one for green glass, one for clear glass, one for approved plastics, one for approved paper, one ...

The Trump administration is giving America’s schools and universities two weeks to eliminate diversity initiatives or risk losing federal money, raising the stakes in the president’s ...

The nation’s top public health agency is losing most of the scientists in a prestigious, but lesser-known, laboratory program that has become a mainstay of outbreak responses.

The spate of recent aviation disasters and close calls have people worried about the safety of flying.

Even lifelong cinema lovers like Richard Beer, the programming manager at downtown Vancouver’s independent Kiggins Theatre, find the gargantuan running time of some of today’s movie releases a bit abs ...

But even with all that, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy went on Fox News earlier this week and tried to assure viewers that air travel is “way safer than traveling in a car and train.