Taxes are a necessary fact of life. Although no one likes paying them, and they divert resources and cause waste, governments ...

We must not rush to judgment. But there is a primal scream stuck in our collective throat. Our heads are spinning as we try ...

Cheers: To Greg Kimsey. The Clark County auditor says he will not run for reelection in November, leaving voters to choose a ...

Former Camas-Washougal Fire Battalion Chief Kevin West, who is on trial for murder in his wife’s death, has filed a defamation lawsuit against a neighbor he alleges harassed him with a series of true ...

Federal officers fired tear gas Monday to break up a crowd of whistle-blowing bystanders in Minneapolis who showed up to see the aftermath of a car crash involving immigration agents, ju ...

Some 250 years after “Common Sense” helped inspire the 13 colonies to declare independence, Thomas Paine might receive a long-anticipated tribute from his adopted country.

The FBI said in a court document made public Monday that it had found no surveillance or other video of a Border Patrol agent shooting and wounding two people in a pickup truck during an im ...

Jacob Smith has been in prison for two decades, but he and other inmates are still taking regular trips to far-flung, exotic locales. No passport required, just a virtual reality ...

Washington state lawmakers begin a 60-day session today, in which a fiscal reckoning, flood recovery, and their own reelections loom large.

U.S. President Donald Trump said Iran wants to negotiate with Washington after his threat to strike the Islamic Republic over its crackdown on protesters, a move coming a ...

A Hong Kong court heard arguments Monday about the sentencing of democracy advocate and onetime-media magnate Jimmy Lai, whose conviction under a national security law could land him in pr ...

“I feel like we’re in a great position currently, and we have an amazing trajectory ahead of us,” said Eric Overholser, who was selected as the city’s mayor during the Battle Ground City Council ’s ...