Anna Kliest Gambold (1762-1821) was one of the outstanding female figures of Moravian Bethlehem. Growing up in the Single ...

Amid cautious optimism that a "top kill" effort to cap the leaking well causing the Gulf oil spill is working, President Obama banned new offshore drilling Thursday until further notice.

Wallace Falls isn’t just a state park—it’s Washington’s perfect escape hatch, where waterfall therapy and forest immersion combine to remind us why the Pacific Northwest remains one of the most ...

Sometime between 1381 and 1391, an earthquake exceeding magnitude 8.0 rocked the northeastern Caribbean and sent a tsunami ...

The Washington Cascades received their first snowfall of the season this week, signaling the arrival of cooler conditions in ...

Washington and local leaders praised Wednesday’s historic launch of the radioactive waste treatment plant, or vitrification plant, at Hanford near Richland.

Millions in Washington are participating in the Great ShakeOut today. At 10:16 a.m., they will practice earthquake drills and ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump confirmed Wednesday that he has authorized the CIA to conduct covert operations ...

This is really a historic breakthrough. After decades of effort, we are officially turning nuclear waste into glass at ...

In a 1970 National Geographic feature, paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey—son of Louis and Mary Leakey—recounted his ...

Throughout most of Earth's geological history, its paleoclimate has remained hospitable to life—largely thanks to continental ...

Nova has been requested by His Excellency The Hon Dr Kevin Rudd AC, Australian Ambassador to the United States, to provide a ...