Executives told Amazons board last year that they hoped robotic automation would allow the company to continue to avoid adding to its U.S. workforce in the coming years.

Police started the pursuit after the driver of a suspected stolen van refused to pull over, the Los Angeles Police Department says.

A new report commissioned by the region's largest utilities spells out a troubling scenario in which rolling blackouts could hit the Northwest.

Officials say the employees and customers noticed the man had an object in his hand that they believed was a knife. They said he threatened to kill and harm everyone in the store.

The new outbreak began in August and has sickened more than 100 people, most of them unvaccinated. It's the second-largest cluster of cases in the U.S. this year.

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has entered a Paris prison to begin serving a five-year sentence.

Head Start programs that serve tens of thousands of the nations neediest preschoolers could run out of money because of the government shutdown.

Young children are sick from eight to 12 times each year, and often for a week or two at a time. If they stayed home all of those days, they would be out of school a big chunk of the year.

More than 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding public health protections vaccines, milk safety and fluoride have been introduced in statehouses across the U.S. this year.

Powerful anti-vaccine advocates and people selling potentially harmful goods such as raw milk are profiting from the push to write anti-science policies into law across the U.S. They portray the Make America Healthy Again movement as grassroots, but its fueled by a web of well-funded national groups led by people whove profited financially and otherwise ...

The Mariners loss to the Toronto Blue Jays on the doorstep of the World Series is devastating. Here are some ways to cope with the all too familiar pain.

More than 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding public health protections vaccines, milk safety, and fluoride have been introduced in statehouses across the U.S. this year, part of an organized, politically savvy campaign to enshrine a conspiracy theory-driven agenda into law.

For its investigation on anti-science legislation, The Associated Press examined more than 1,000 bills that had been introduced in states across the nation.

The much-anticipated October forecast from city analysts showed slightly improved revenues this year and next, making budget deliberations easier ahead of November.

Three demolition workers who fell into the water amid concrete debris accused the city of neglecting the downtown pier and rushing to raze it unsafely.

Never before has drought forced the state to cut off water sources for entire cities.

AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo are challenging Gilead Sciences for dominance in one of the toughest-to-treat breast cancers in a race for patients and profits.

A chess grandmaster who started as a child prodigy and quickly became one of the most influential American voices in the sport has died at age 29.

A new poll finds most U.S. adults are worried about health care becoming more expensive.

Wasted food is a financial and environmental bummer.

Typhoon Halong's remnants hit western Alaska with intense force and even pulled homes from their foundations.

Giant, floating pumpkin races have drawn large crowds to the Oregon city of Tualatin.

Roughly 200 law enforcement personnel detained people as part of an FBI gambling investigation Sunday.

A person was shot and killed in the North Beacon Hill neighborhood Monday.

Judge Samuel Chung sided with the city, saying recent changes had abated neighbors' concerns enough to keep the nude beach open until 2026.