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Danielle “Dani” Golay, The Bohemian co-owner, met Stacia Garmon at the dentist when they learned of something painfully in common, a baby's death. Garmon cherises a blanket gifted by the hospital for her son. Now, she keeps her mind busy sewing and is selling her own crafted baby blankets and related items at in the Bohemian, with proceeds to donate baby blankets for parents experience such a loss.

On Tuesday morning, there wasn’t a speck of snow on the ground in Spokane Valley. The lack of precipitation didn’t impact the steady flow of customers who streamed into Sports Creel in anticipation of ski season.

One person died and several others were injured in a rollover crash Saturday in Ritzville, according to the Washington State Patrol.

The ruby slippers that Judy Garland wore as Dorothy in the 1939 production of "The Wizard of Oz" were sold for a record-breaking $28 million Saturday during an auction in the latest turn for one of the most recognizable and storied artifacts in film history.

The victim of a brutal ax killing in Ventura County earlier this week has been identified as the suspect’s younger brother, his family confirmed late Friday.

As a year of travel that was marked largely by overtourism protests in Barcelona, Spain; Oaxaca, Mexico; and Venice, Italy, draws to a close, the appeal of offbeat vacations continues to grow.

Three days after a shooter assassinated a top health insurance executive in midtown Manhattan and vanished, the unidentified suspect has, in some quarters, been venerated as something approaching a folk hero.

Putting the nation's leading anti-vaccine activist in charge of the massive federal department overseeing America's sprawling system of health care, disease control and medical research would "set our country back in a way that I cannot fathom," U.S. Sen. Patty Murray said Friday at a UW Medicine facility in Seattle.

Vina Mikkelsen’s son took the white and pink lei his 93-year-old mother wore around her neck and hung it on a wreath that had a black band around it with gold words: “NEVER FORGET.”

On Saturday, Jack Stowe, now 98, sat alongside nine of his fellow veterans at the National World War II Memorial as a sailor rang a Navy bell at 12:53 p.m. - exactly 83 years to the minute from the first attack on Pearl Harbor.

President-elect Donald Trump’s suggestion of implementing high tariffs on semiconductor imports to replace the current U.S. policy of giving federal grants to domestic chipmakers is a “horrific idea” that would endanger national security, outgoing Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said Saturday.

PARIS – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday strode into the Élysée Palace here to meet with President-elect Donald Trump, marking their first in-person discussion since Trump secured the White House while promoting an isolationist agenda that could limit aid to the embattled country.

Five years after a fire that devoured its roof and nearly collapsed its walls, a renovated Notre Dame Cathedral reopened Saturday, its centuries-old bell clanging, its 8,000-pipe organ first groaning -- and then roaring -- back to life.

A visibly bruised Pope Francis created 21 new cardinals, placing the traditional red caps on their heads in a ceremony in St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican on Saturday.

President Bashar Assad's political survival was under threat Saturday as the Syrian government battled opposition rebellions around the country and the strategic city of Homs was breached by the main rebel coalition, according to the fighters and a war monitor.

Each day used to feature a different activity for Kelaia Turner. Sunday was youth worship at church. Monday was piano lessons. She participated in soccer and volleyball, and at school, choir and drama club. But now, where her mother says Kelaia used to fill the house with giggles, there is silence.

The mosquito-borne disease chikungunya has a higher global burden than previously estimated, an international team of researchers reports in BMJ Global Health. There were 18.7 million chikungunya cases in 110 countries, costing the world nearly $50 billion over the last decade.

In addition to investing in modern water-sourcing measures like a connection to a new artificial lake and desalination units, Athens is turning to an older asset: an aqueduct that dates back to when Greece was part of the Roman Empire.

Health officials in California's Marin County are investigating a possible H5N1 bird flu case in a child. If confirmed, this would be the second case of an infected child in California.