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 ...

Here are some of the top stories of the week on columbian.com. Wondering what else was popular this week with readers? Check out our Trending Stories page.

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 Portland Thorns of the National Women’s Soccer League and the city’s as-yet unnamed WNBA team will train together at a new performance center in a first-of-its-kind alliance between teams from bot ...

(AP Photo/Anne M. Peterson) The Portland Thorns of the National Women’s Soccer League and the city’s as-yet unnamed WNBA team will train together at a new performance center in a first-of-its ...

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