Hurricane Melissa is set to pummel Jamaica as a catastrophic Category 5 storm, the strongest to lash the island since recordkeeping began 174 years ago.

Bill Gates thinks climate change is a serious problem but he thinks scientific innovation will curb it.

Seaweed has been farmed off Zanzibar for decades, but there is a new boom underway for global industries like cosmetics.

Officers arrived at an apartment complex on South 233rd Place around 6 p.m. after several 911 callers reported hearing a volley of gunfire.

A 29-year-old man was charged with first-degree robbery in connection with an Aug. 14 sledgehammer heist at Menashe & Sons Jewelers.

A Somali hospital ward packed with gasping children shows how war, climate and mistrust of vaccines are fueling the diseases return in spots around the world.

Students at the Rainier Beach elementary school will return to school on Wednesday after a broken water fountain caused flooding last week.

Federal funds could begin running dry on Saturday that help tens of millions of Americans buy food for their families and send their toddlers to preschool if the government shutdown persists.

Intense storms that stalled over Central Florida unleashed nearly 20 inches of rain in 24 hours.

A New Hampshire man lived with a pig kidney for a record 271 days before surgeons removed it last week as the organ's function declined.

Elkhorn and staghorn coral are functionally extinct around the state, researchers say, meaning they no longer play any significant role in their ecosystem.

Therapist Jordan Alam writes that it took time and a better understanding of how trauma works before a labeled diagnosis was useful to them in their own life.

Are immigration judges defying a federal court order by not issuing bonds? Immigrant advocates say yes. New U.S. Attorney Neil Floyd disagrees.

Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin has resumed offering abortions after a nearly monthlong pause due to federal Medicaid funding cuts in President Donald Trumps tax and spending bill that took effect at the beginning of October.

We want to know how you have been impacted by this year's partial government shutdown. Tell us your questions and concerns, and whether you support it.

FIFA has started selling another million tickets for next years World Cup.

Hurricane Melissa has rapidly intensified into a Category 5 storm due to warming oceans linked to climate change.

The Navy's Pacific Fleet says a fighter jet and a helicopter based off the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz crashed into the South China Sea within 30 minutes of each other.

About 17,000 customers are without power in the Puget Sound region as of Monday morning after the weekend's storm, according to Puget Sound Energy.

One person was shot and killed in Shoreline Monday morning near a Costco. No arrest has been made.

Snoqualmie Pass is back open after the Washington State Department of Transportation closed the roadway late Sunday following multiple spinouts.

Among the losses suffered by Western Alaska storm victims the destruction of the traditional foods theyd gathered for the winter is among the most deeply felt.

Notices of rising health insurance premiums are landing in voters mailboxes and sending some to town halls to vent their frustration.

Valley Medical Center's ballot proposition, if passed, would cost district homeowners $0.75 or 46 cents more for every $1,000 of assessed property value.

There are leaves in Seattle that don't blow in the wind. Bronze leaves, placed by homeless advocates, memorialize homeless people who've died outside each year.