For decades, astronomers have chased fleeting hints that something alive might be lurking beyond Earth, only to watch each ...

Friendly rivalries between Washington and Oregon include many aspects of Northwest life, from college football to urban hipsterism (best microbrew? coziest kombucha culture?) to record rainfall.

“The foolishness of the impulse to get out and run towards it, just assuming it would take off before I got very far — that was a big mistake that created a huge detour in my life,” Travis Walton says ...