Italian health authorities see evidence that rising temperatures and longer warm seasons are helping mosquitoes spread West Nile virus across a wider area, during more months of the year.

The parents of a young woman who was fatally struck after her Uber driver pulled over on a California highway have been awarded $40 million.

The debate veered into territory covered throughout the nation: Is historic preservation being used as a vehicle to block changes for safety in Pike Place?

West African laboratory scientists are urging governments to strengthen their capacity to detect disease outbreaks to prevent another major crisis.

The Jehovahs Witnesses have partly eased their ban on the medical use of donated blood.

Florida is experiencing one of its worst surges of dengue in decades, and the toll now includes a death.

Officials say 75 absentee in-person ballots cast by voters in rural western Alaska communities arrived too late to be counted in last months primary election.

Officers tried to contact the woman suspected in the domestic violence incident, but she barricaded herself inside the apartment, police said.

Organizers of a referendum to repeal an abortion ban in deep-red Idaho are far more focused on how the ban has broadly affected health care in the state.

After more than a year of deliberation, the state Board of Education has finalized its recommendation for updating high school graduation requirements.

After a day and a half in detention, Cece Mokua was released. ICE has given no explanation for what happened, highlighting its unpredictable tactics.

The shooting was one of three that happened in less than 24 hours within blocks of each other in Belltown, which left three injured and three dead.

A small, spotted cat at a Bolivian wildlife sanctuary has turned out to belong to a previously unknown species.

The lone juror who wanted to convict Lindsay Clancy of murder for killing her three children said he was certain of her guilt, but that other jurors wouldnt listen to him.

As patients linger in the state hospital, mental health advocates say the delays jeopardize patients rights and recovery.

Tony- and Grammy-winning musician Duncan Sheik has died at 56. Before Broadway's Spring Awakening, he had been best known for the hit Barely Breathing.

The two new train sets will operate four daily trips between Vancouver, B.C., Seattle, Portland and Eugene, Oregon, in the first phase of the fleets introduction.

America is the land of possibility and the land of cockamamie schemes.

A fossilized piece of dinosaur poop could help answer an age-old question in paleontology: Why are birds the only dinosaurs that survived?

A court order, funding from Olympia, a business plan to turn old tires into building blocks, even an ethics committee fine. This situation has seen it all.

Technology companies have come under scrutiny for the effects AI chatbots have on youth mental health. Here's what you should know.

Some I-90 work that was postponed by rain last weekend will happen this weekend instead, tying Bellevue traffic into knots.

Rep. Joel McEntire, R-Cathlamet, has been ordered to stop communicating with a healthcare worker, one of McEntires constituents a judge found he has harassed.

For years, scientists have explored ways to remove carbon from the atmosphere, including through direct air capture, changes to ocean chemistry so seawater can absorb more carbon and reforestation.