Welcome to Leavenworth, Washington, the Christmas capital of the Pacific Northwest. Decades ago, Leavenworth was a near ghost town on the eastern slopes of the Cascade Mountains, one of the region’s ...

When Charlie Brown joyfully returns to his friends with the spindly little tree, the rest of the “Peanuts” gang ridicule his ...

EVERETT —In the next year, the Port of Everett plans to break ground on the second and largest phase of its Waterfront Place mixed-use project. And as it gears up for development, climate change ...

The biggest update to the FAFSA in over four decades had a shaky rollout last year, causing delays and confusion for students looking to apply for aid. This year, the FAFSA launched Dec. 1 — two ...

As a longtime loyal reader of The Herald, it’s been difficult to watch the sale of the newspaper to an out-of-state entity, the cutting of half the newsroom staff, and now the stalled negotiations ...

Let’s start by updating a pair of lawsuits that I’ve discussed in my Christmas wars columns. First, Mariah Carey looks likely to prevail against two songwriters who claim that the singer’s holiday ...

Yet here sits a thriving abbey with its youthful monks, drawing pilgrims while its Benedictines pray the ancient Latin of the Roman church. It’s not the fall of the Roman Empire all over again, but ...

The way of Christ, by contrast, forecloses cruelty. It requires compassion. It inverts our moral compass, or at least it should. We love rags-to-riches stories, for example, so if many of us were ...

Gov. Jay Inslee’s projected budget shortfall of $10 billion to $12 billion over the next four years, announced on Dec. 17, makes passing the Farm Bill in Congress even more urgent for low income ...

Planning for an ambitious high-speed rail system in the Pacific Northwest will continue thanks to nearly $50 million in new U.S. federal funding.

EDMONDS — Edmonds-Woodway boys basketball took down Marysville Getchell 58-42 in a non-league matchup Monday night to move to 7-0 on the season. But the 16-point win was one of the closer games the ...

Community-funded since 1961, the mission offers shelter, meals, and pathways to recovery ...