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  It is illegal for emergency management officials to prepare for a North Korean nuclear attack in Washington state. Incredibly, a Cold War-era law prevents any sort of emergency evacuation planning for a nuclear attack – even though the state ...

  About half of Southern California beachgoers interviewed by prankster Mark Dice did not know who the nation’s capital – Washington D.C. — was named after. In his latest funny-yet-disturbing video, Dice found that many everyday Americans he encountered did ...

The one place in the United States most at risk for a catastrophic earthquake – the “big one” — may not be Los Angeles or San Francisco, but instead Seattle and the surrounding region. The Cascadia Fault, as it is ...

Tacoma, Washington, resident Jamie Smith faces a stark choice: Get a flu shot or lose her foster child. The state of Washington could take Smith’s two-week-old foster son if she and her family do not get the flu vaccine. All ...

The gun-control movement has a new catchphrase and a new strategy to get more laws restricting the right to bear arms passed. Instead of lobbying Congress or state legislators, gun controllers plan to use ballot initiatives to make gun-control measures ...

Washington state voters Tuesday approved a wide-ranging new gun control law that could mandate a background check each time someone hands or loans a friend a gun. That’s the charge by Initiative 594 opponents, who say the new law – ...

A bipartisan bill in a Northwest state could severely hinder the actions of the National Security Agency (NSA), and if it spreads to other states could do even more than that. Under the bill in Washington state, selling anything to ...

The biotech company Monsanto, a major opponent of Washington state’s GMO-labeling Initiative 522, actually once supported the labeling of genetically engineered foods. During the late 1990s, the biotech giant initiated an advertising campaign in the United Kingdom which supported the ...

Editor’s note: This article is the third piece in our series on gardening for your specific location. Check back every day this week for a new featured area of the country! The Pacific Northwest is a gardener’s paradise in many ...

By 1796, George Washington had created a solid government for the new Republic. But he was tired; the political wrangling taken its toll on him. Had he wanted a third term, there is no doubt he would’ve been reelected, but ...