When Todd Welch was first brought on as a regular columnist for The Herald, he promised to be a moderate, slightly more conservative, but nonetheless compassionate voice to balance out the paper’s ...

EVERETT — Archbishop Murphy football is not used to getting punched in the face, but it was searching the canvas for its mouthguard to start out the 2A State Round of 16 against Olympic at Goddard ...

Prep football roundup for Saturday, Nov. 15: (Note for coaches/scorekeepers: To report results and statistics, email [email protected]. Please report results by 10:30 p.m.) PASCO — The Grizzlies ...

LAKE STEVENS — The Lake Stevens football team took its time getting into a rhythm against the 3-6 Woodinville Falcons last week to open the postseason, leading by just seven at the half. Saturday saw ...

Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation, must be confused. Last month, he turned to the most reliable move in the Republican crisis-management playbook, and it didn’t work. On Oct. 30, ...

EVERETT — Crews will begin initial construction work next week on a $142 million widening of Highway 9 in Snohomish. As part of the project, the Washington State Department of Transportation will ...

Graham Ike’s back-down game was a central part of the scouting report No. 23 Creighton put together before traveling to Spokane for Tuesday’s contest at No. 19 Gonzaga. The Bluejays had cut-ups ...

EDMONDS — Art was d’Elaine Herard Johnson’s first language. She was born legally blind, and as a young child she would sculpt objects out of mud and clay. At 4 years old, she started wearing glasses ...

Washington state’s new public lands commissioner came into office with his own ambitious agenda. It’s playing out against a shifting backdrop in D.C. The Trump administration has proposed ...

And just like that, the longest government shutdown in history is poised to end. Republicans refused to extend health care subsidies for 20 million Americans, and, after 41 days and deep cuts to the ...

The good news from the recent donnybrook over Tucker Carlson’s interview with Nick Fuentes, the Hitler fanboy with a sizable social-media following, is that it has at last forced conservatives to ...

EVERETT — The Everett Community College Board of Trustees voted Thursday to close the college’s Early Learning Center after a court order forced the board to bring the issue to a public vote. The ...