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Should the U.S. require its citizens to perform public service? Should its young women register for the draft?A federal panel says it is working on answers to those questions — and is considering how the nation could implement a universal service program and whether it should be mandatory or optional.

Levy, 58, is a freelance writer, a TV personality, and an English professor at Washington State University with 31 years of teaching experience.

The question hanging over the Washington state Legislature this winter isn’t so much what laws will pass, but how they’ll be funded.

Lead and arsenic used decades ago in pesticides are still lingering in the topsoil of Pacific Northwest apple country. That poses a health risk for…

The handling of sexual harassment in the Washington Legislature will evolve following a new code of conduct that has already passed one chamber.

On January 28, 1969, an oil well off the coast of Santa Barbara, Calif., experienced a blowout. The result was an oil spill that at the time ranked as the largest in U.S. waters.

Now that the fall rains have begun, the fire danger at Multnomah Falls has declined. But Oregon’s popular gem still won’t open anytime soon.

The plan to build Idaho’s first edible food forest keeps on growing.

The U.S. and Russia seem increasingly interested in battlefield nuclear weapons. Arms control advocates fear a return to the darkest days of the Cold War.

The Massachusetts attorney general alleges that the family behind Purdue Pharma knew that OxyContin was causing overdoses, yet continued to cash in. New documents in the case were released Thursday.