Many of George Washington's decisions during his long career were made only after careful readings of the existing cartographical materials. The Granger Collection, New York First in war. First in ...

Most of us use maps to help us know where we’re going. As a journalist, I’m just as intrigued by maps that tell us where we’ve been, who we are, what we’re made of and how we treat each other. So I ...

An urgent flood threat has emerged in Washington state where atmospheric rivers are set to deliver heavy rain beginning Sunday.

The “Theodore Roosevelt International Highway” – or “Roosevelt Highway,” for short – once connected Portland, Maine, and Portland, Oregon. For most of the 1920s and well into the 1930s, part of this ...

Throughout the past three years unemployment rates have drastically varied. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, total civilian employment in America dropped by 21 million from the fourth ...

The Pacific Northwest faces a multitude of major fires, blanketing the region in smoke and evacuation notices. More than 1 million acres have burned in Oregon and in Washington, Governor Jay Inslee ...

Hundreds of thousands of residents in Washington state remain without power Thursday, days after a powerful bomb cyclone brought damaging winds and heavy rain to the area, killing two people and ...

Votes from members of the Yakama Nation may not be divided by legislative boundaries in future elections, according to draft maps released Tuesday by the Washington State Redistricting Commission. The ...