EVERETT -- As they puzzled over how to go about replacing the Broadway bridge, city engineers initially...

Meet some standouts from the class of 2013, in their own words. HeraldNet collected commencement speeches from 56 student speakers at high schools across Snohomish County. Above is a...

MOUNTLAKE TERRACE -- What a perfect surprise for two "almost teens:" A day trip to Bellingham and an Old Navy shopping spree.A video camera recorded the scene. Two...

MOUNT VERNON -- The Skagit River bridge on I-5 is slated to reopen Wednesday with slower speeds for vehicles and a ban on trucks hauling excessively large cargo like the one which caused...

EVERETT -- A Snohomish County judge on Tuesday advised a Sultan man that he should have bought a book about housebreaking dogs instead of beating a puppy named Precious.

Isaiah "the Iceman" Samuels brakes after the finish line during the 6th Annual Stanwood Camano Soap Box Derby on Saturday next to the Stanwood Community and Senior Center.

EDMONDS -- Police have identified a two-strike felon as the prime suspect in an assault and robbery in Edmonds on

OLYMPIA — Thanks to an improving Washington economy, legislative leaders sounded confident Tuesday an agreement on a state budget will be reached in plenty of time to avert a...

MUKILTEO -- Police are asking for help identifying the suspect in a hit-and-run crash in Mukilteo on May 5.

Ashley Smith has taken U.S. history classes, but those courses never covered Juneteenth. Today's date, June 19, is so significant...

A British Airways Airbus A380 prepares to land after performing its demonstration flight Tuesday at the 50th Paris Air Show at Le Bourget airport, north of Paris. A Qatar Airways Boeing...

At the Paris Air Show, the Boeing Co. on Tuesday announced the program launch of the 787-10, the largest Dreamliner jet, with the backing of five...

Boeing's 747-8 program got a boost Tuesday when Korean Air agreed to buy five passenger planes.

Google asked the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on Tuesday to ease long-standing gag orders over data requests it makes, arguing that the company has a constitutional right to...

WASHINGTON -- U.S. builders began construction on more single-family homes and apartments in May, encouraged by more buyers and a scarcity of houses for sale.

ANAHEIM — Perhaps the walk-off misery has taken a break for the Seattle Mariners. Once again it looked as though the Mariners would be trudging off the field dejected...

MIAMI — LeBron James saved a championship reign, canceled a celebration. The toughest part now might be topping Tuesday’s performance in Game 7.

EVERETT -- It's been less than one time through the rotation, yet already the Everett AquaSox have begun tinkering with their starters.

MOSES LAKE -- It's been a banner week for Mason Stone.

EVERETT -- Everett suffered its first loss of the season, falling 8-4 to Tri-City. The AquaSox won their first four games. Indeed, Everett never trailed in those four games.

WASHINGTON -- About 8 million immigrants living unlawfully in the United States would gain legal status under sweeping legislation moving toward a vote in the Senate, the nonpartisan...

WASHINGTON -- The Republican-led House on Tuesday passed a far-reaching anti-abortion bill that conservatives saw as a milestone in their 40-year campaign against legalized abortion and Democrats...

SEATTLE -- An official with the Army Corps of Engineers told a Congressional committee Tuesday it doesn't plan a broad environmental study on exporting coal from the Western United...

ATLANTA -- Fewer U.S. adults are smoking, a new government report says. Last year, about 18 percent of adults participating in a national health survey described themselves as current smokers.

WASHINGTON -- An Internal Revenue Service manager and self-described conservative Republican said the close scrutiny of tea party groups' tax forms originated in his Cincinnati IRS office and not in...

Every time I make this recipe, it seems like a miracle. This bread has no flour. None. Yet, somehow, almond butter transforms into a light bread that's perfect with morning...

"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them."-William Shakespeare, from his sonnet on shortcakeYou're...

Casseroles have never really had much of a place in my culinary repertoire. It's a time thing mostly. I'd rather sear something in a few minutes than stand around while it slowly...

Mexican cuisine has been popular for a long time, but my recent travels around our country have persuaded me that fish tacos are big now in a way they never were before.

Sometimes it takes the mind of an 8-year-old boy to come up with a brilliant idea. At least when it comes to ice cream.My son and I had just left a Ben & Jerry's ice cream...

Sometimes it just makes sense to sit back, look around, and be thankful we live in the state of Washington. The Cascades and the Olympics frame the sky, the air is clear, cool and...

For Ernest Moniz, today is baptism-by-Hanford. Elbowed by Sen. Maria Cantwell, the newly minted U.S. Energy Secretary pledged to visit the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, and he's keeping...

Charles Krauthammer's June 14 column started out surprisingly sensible but it appears he couldn't help himself to use the NSA revelations to also get in some good old GOP Obama bashing.

The letter lambasting the idea of women in the military was so utterly ridiculous as to be laughable. (Thursday, "

A wonderful editorial in the Tuesday Herald on the importance of morality in government.