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BEIRUT, Lebanon – Hezbollah has paid a heavy price for going to war with Israel on March 2: Israel has occupied a chunk of southern Lebanon, displaced hundreds of thousands of its Shi'ite Muslim constituents and killed as many as several thousand of its fighters, according to previously unreported casualty estimates from within the group.

Bob Thornton was a high school cross country runner in Tonasket when Bloomsday race founder Don Kardong showed up to speak at an awards banquet and invited the entire team to participate in his upcoming road race.

New weight-loss drugs are making people eat less food, but chew more gum.

Millions of Americans appear to be dropping Obamacare coverage in the months since Congress failed to extend the generous subsidies that had become a defining feature of the Affordable Care Act.

Reid Kennedy, an Airbnb host in Minnesota, found a mission in a bottle of Pepsi.

Apart from “Is that a raindrop I felt,” “Can I really just throw this cup on the ground” and “When will I finally crest Doomsday Hill,” Bloomsday runners often can’t help but pine over a single, essential question: What will this year’s shirt look like?

The Great Basin spadefoot toad reeks of peanuts, has shovels on its feet and likes to hunker below ground until it rains or thunders overhead. It also makes a sound akin to a dozing duck.

From 1976: Did Willie the Wily Parrot make another appearance in the Inland Northwest?

Has it really been 25 years? What started as a small plant sale run by the Inland Empire Gardeners garden club somehow grew into Garden Expo, the mecca for all things garden in the Inland Northwest.

WASHINGTON – New legislation from Sen. Patty Murray targets a legal loophole that lets the wealthiest Americans avoid paying taxes on money they pass down to their heirs, at a time when wealth inequality is at its highest point in decades and the federal budget deficit is nearly $2 trillion a year.

The Bloomsday Perennials who gathered Saturday for a luncheon in honor of the 50th running of the race greeted each other with hugs and handshakes as they said hello to people they may not have seen since the last Bloomsday.

In 1969, the producer of “Gilligan’s Island” started a sitcom inspired by the era’s rapid social changes. A widowed architect with three boys would marry a single mother of three girls. High jinks would ensue.

Two drugmakers have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to restore mail-order access to mifepristone, a move that would continue to allow women access to one of the most widely used abortion methods pending ongoing legal challenges.

Dramatic temperature jumps marked this March and April in the U.S. Northeast, making it hard to know what to dress for: chilly or sweltering conditions? Researchers have concluded that wild temperature swings are becoming more common as the world heats up. That’s changing how we experience spring, with plants blooming sooner and consumers rushing to buy more warm-weather goods earlier in the ...

A disgruntled former employee of the Multnomah Athletic Club drove a car packed with explosives into the exclusive facility on the edge of downtown Portland early Saturday morning, causing massive damage before dying in a fiery wreck, two law enforcement sources with direct knowledge of the situation told the Oregonian.

Elizabeth Gilbert invited me to play a game, and I couldn’t wait to get started.

If you’re thinking about purchasing a second home, you’ll first want to carefully weigh the full impact it will have on your finances.

New video footage released Thursday night by the FBI of the apparent assassination attempt on President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner last month helps clarify how the episode unfolded by more clearly showing the gunman’s actions and the responses of Secret Service officers.

Three people are dead after a multicar collision in Chelan County Friday night, Washington State Patrol said in a news release.