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New frontier for craft US whiskey may be underfoot

SEATTLE – Matt Hofmann walks along a small brown pond, the earth of its bank springing underfoot like a muddy mattress. The ground is, in fact, floating. It’s a peat bog on Washin...

DATE: Dec 18, 2017 | CATEGORY: Food

10 African Americans named Rhodes scholars, most ever

The latest group of U.S. Rhodes scholars includes 10 African Americans – the most ever in a single Rhodes class – as well as a transgender man and four students from colleges that had never ...

DATE: Nov 21, 2017 | CATEGORY: Education

U.S. court rejects appeal from praying football coach

SEATTLE – A Washington state high school football coach took advantage of his position when he prayed on the field after games, and he’s not entitled to immediately get his job back, a feder...

DATE: Aug 23, 2017 | CATEGORY: High School Sports

Judges question whether Trump’s travel ban discriminates

SEATTLE – Federal judges on Monday peppered a lawyer for President Donald Trump with questions about whether the administration’s travel ban discriminates against Muslims, the second time in...

DATE: May 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Wacky weather hits U.S.

El Niño buries West in snow, heats up East Coast

DATE: Dec 22, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Seattle voters get to call the shots

SEATTLE – Many voters don’t have the money to donate to political candidates or don’t care enough to bother. But what if the government gave them $100 to dole out as they saw fit? ...

DATE: Nov 20, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Higher wages a surprising success for Seattle restaurant

SEATTLE – Menu prices are up 21 percent and you don’t have to tip at Ivar’s Salmon House on Seattle’s Lake Union after the restaurant decided to institute the city’s $15-an-hour minimum wage...

DATE: Aug 4, 2015 | CATEGORY: Business

Fed report on Ferguson resonates across country

SEATTLE – Felix Vargas read the Justice Department’s report on Ferguson, Missouri, and thought some of it sounded awfully familiar – a mostly white police department overseeing a mostly mino...

DATE: Mar 8, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Pot-related poison control calls rise in Colorado, Wash.

SEATTLE – Marijuana-related calls to poison control centers in Washington and Colorado have spiked since the states began allowing legal sales last year, with an especially troubling increas...

DATE: Jan 23, 2015 | CATEGORY: Regional News