Museum Conservation Institute scientists used a nondestructive technique called X-ray fluorescence spectrometry to analyze ratios of elements in the obsidians. The process works by “exciting” atoms in ...

Schools can hold outdoor graduation ceremonies with physical distancing measures. The changes don’t affect the Washington suburbs, which have opted to reopen more slowly. On July 14, the ...

Discovered in a remote Ottoman town in 1884, the Madaba Map is both a masterpiece of Byzantine design and a working map of Jerusalem and the sixth-century Middle East. A detail of the Madaba Map ...

Port Townsend’s natural setting is so beautiful it borders on showing off. Situated where the Strait of Juan de Fuca meets ...

One person has died and multiple others were injured after a tornado touched down in Kentucky's Washington County early on Friday morning. "We are deeply saddened to report one fatality and ...

In the 2009–10 school year, Seattle Public Schools adopted the Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) test, which measures reading and ... which also includes the much maligned Washington Assessment of ...

Night - Clear. Winds variable. The overnight low will be 44 °F (6.7 °C). Mostly sunny with a high of 74 °F (23.3 °C). Winds variable. Mostly sunny today with a high of 74 °F (23.3 °C) and a ...

The staffers, identified as Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, were leaving an event for young diplomats at the Jewish Museum when they were shot on the 300 block of F Street NW, right across from ...

Cloudy with a high of 57 °F (13.9 °C) and a 57% chance of precipitation. Winds from WSW to W at 7 to 9 mph (11.3 to 14.5 kph). Night - Cloudy with a 58% chance of precipitation. Winds variable ...

A nor’easter during late spring won’t bring snow, unless you’re on Mount Washington in New Hampshire ... in Poughkeepsie and Albany in New York; Bridgeport and Hartford in Connecticut ...

A truck driver told a trooper he was looking at a map and a GPS unit when ran a stop sign and crashed into another vehicle in Washington County, after which the other driver died, according to a ...

Washington State, in the USA’s Pacific Northwest region, is an adventure traveller’s dream. With pristine rainforest, high peaks, glaciers, volcanoes, vast and wild waterways, a coastline north to ...