Content advisory: This story includes descriptions of sexual assault. Resources for survivors are available here. The schools investigated about a fifth of these reports through internal systems.

For years, the complaints languished with Washington state education officials. A therapist emailed about a teenage boy with severe autism, who had wailed for hours inside a locked room in her school, ...

A confused 38-year-old father in Kentucky rarely crawled out of bed. A conservation volunteer in Iowa lost feeling in his hands and feet. A 5-year-old girl in South King County doubled over in pain ...

Carrie Davidson, Lillian’s great-granddaughter, runs her hands over the faded photograph as she sits on a sofa in her Auburn home. She keeps it in a plain wooden box along with pine cones and a broken ...

NO RESTAURANT is essential. Dining out is a luxury, obviously. And new restaurants are opening in newly luxurious Seattle at an overwhelming pace — hundreds over the past year. With so much novelty, ...

In its ambitious rise to become one of the largest hospital systems in the country, Providence Health & Services struck a deal in 2011 to claim a Seattle-area rival, Swedish Health. Providence added ...

The youngsters knew their sport could be dangerous, even deadly. But for the junior team at the Vancouver (Wash.) Rifle and Pistol Club, the peril that emerged from their sport didn’t come from a ...

IJUANA, Mexico — The border fence separating the United States and Mexico runs right into the crashing surf of the Pacific Ocean at a beachside neighborhood called Playas de Tijuana. The Mexican side ...

ELWHA RIVER — The Elwha watershed is booming with new life, after the world’s largest dam removal. The first concrete went flying in September 2011, and Elwha Dam was out the following March. Glines ...

Each year, Washington motorists flood state government with complaints about having to buy new license plates every seven years. The discarded plates still gleam like new. People suspect the forced ...

A joint project by The Seattle Times and The Columbian For a look at how districts are trying to address the issue, stay tuned for the next piece in this three-part series, a collaboration between The ...

When we asked Seattle Times readers to send in favorite family recipes for this strangest-ever holiday season, we didn’t expect such an outpouring. We got dozens of responses — thanks from the bottom ...