A federal immigration officer shot and killed a man Saturday in Minneapolis, drawing hundreds of protesters onto the frigidly cold streets in a city already shaken by another fatal shooting weeks earl ...

As communities across the country on Monday hosted parades, panels and service projects for the 40th federal observation of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the political climate for some is more fraught w ...

Through multiple iterations of Columbia River’s girls basketball program, there’s one constant driving the Rapids during their recent run of success.

Anglers fishing for hatchery winter steelhead in local rivers are looking at an end game, as state fisheries managers continue down the path of closing out steelhead hatchery fisheries on the Washouga ...

This category isn’t exactly new. During the first Grammys in 1959, Frank Sinatra’s “Only the Lonely” received the award for album cover. It was presented every year until 1973, when the Siegel-Schwall ...

It might have seemed absurd to buy a brick-and-mortar bookstore in 2021, when prevailing wisdom suggested that print books were about to be replaced with digital facsimiles. That didn’t stop Heather E ...

Something had to be done, Keith Wilson argued, because “Portland has normalized homeless encampments.” His approach though was a type of “enforced compassion” that has been anathema in progressive ...

A grassroots organization founded to increase diversity in publishing is launching a program to counteract the nationwide wave of bannings in schools and libraries.

If you grow houseplants, you probably know that sinking feeling you get when you notice the almost imperceivable movement of a dot, fine webbing between a leaf and its stem, or a leaf that just looks ...

The Columbian’s weekly listing of restaurant inspection scores is a popular feature. Readers scan the numbers, look for familiar names and decide where they might — or might not — go to eat.

For months, neighbors of east Vancouver’s forthcoming In-N-Out Burger have taken to social media to trade fears about the restaurant’s potential to clog two vital city streets. But city officials aren ...

Celebratory music blasting from loudspeakers mixed with the sounds of construction, almost drowning out calls to prayer from a mosque in the Palestinian town across this ...