SEATTLE (AP) -- Seattle, you're greasy. Really greasy. It's estimated that 544,000 gallons of grease slip down Seattle's drains each month, enough to fill seven large swimming pools. Most of it comes from dirty dishes and food waste, and it's a problem. In the last five years, grease-clogged pipes caused about one-third of Seattle's sewer backups ...

It all started with a simple question. Nearly 24 years ago, two women from Denver wanted to know why the city of Portland didn't have a street named for Martin Luther King Jr...

Isaiah Scott is 10 years old, and like other kid his age, he enjoys playing and watching sports. He also has a passion for playing video games. Isaiah has been playing fewer sports and more video games lately because of his stay at Doernbecher Children's Hospital. On Sept. 16, 2009, Isaiah was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).

As a Chicago native, Sylvia Dollarson is no stranger to cold winters. But when Portland first went into a freeze in December, her apartment wasn't holding heat, and her pipes froze. She was alarmed...

MONROE, Wash. (AP) -- Bill Pawlyk considered himself a conservative before he went to prison.
His political leanings changed after he lost the ability to vote and began serving a life sentence at the Monroe Correctional Complex.
"I shifted more toward the center," said Pawlyk, 68 ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) -- Washington state lawmakers are feeling deficit deja vu.
A $2.6 billion deficit awaits them as they return to the state Capitol on Monday to convene a 60-day session, and it's the second straight year they've had to face making cuts to state programs.

SALEM, Ore. (AP) -- Since Thanksgiving week, Oregon's airwaves have been flooded with TV ads from both sides in the battle over tax increases the Legislature imposed on corporations and higher-income earners.

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) -- A non-English-speaking Chinese college student disputes a Eugene police officer's account of events that led the officer to shoot the student with a Taser stun gun, the student's lawyer says.
Eugene attorney Ilona Koleszar also said Thursday that her client intends to sue the city over the Sept. 22 incident.

After being convicted of murdering Christopher Monnet by a jury on New Year's Eve, exactly two years after the crime was committed, Jerrin Hickman received a sentence of 25 years to life at a hearing on Monday.

If tax Measures 66 and 67 pass, tens of thousands of jobs will leave the state. But if tax measures 66 and 67 don't pass, our entire economy will collapse. That's at least according to the opponents and proponents of two tax-increasing ballot measures to be decided by voters this January. About the only thing that will prove anyone right in their predictions is the implementation – or not – of the two measures.