FOR most people there is a strange glamour about the South Sea Islands and their inhabitants, due in part, no doubt, to the works of such visitors as R. L. Stevenson and Gauguin. But few people ...

Indigenous tribes, in what is now the northeastern U.S. and Canada, have played lacrosse for millennia. Similar stick-and-ball games were played by tribes across the Southeast and Great Lakes region.

PEORIA, Ariz. — The "hometown kid" is a story that is told whenever it pops up in sports. It's one that pulls at the heartstrings. The idea of a native son putting in the work and effort to make ...

Scaly sailors may have made a record-setting oceanic voyage. Tens of millions of years ago, iguanas in North America floated across the Pacific Ocean. Clinging to vegetation washed into the sea ...

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The nonprofit plans to consolidate its offices at the new site in April. The Institute for Native Pacific Education and Culture, or INPEACE, has acquired the former Kaiser Permanente Nanaikeola ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Wondering where the happiest places are in the Pacific Northwest — a region well-known for its gloomy weather? WalletHub may have an answer for you. WalletHub released ...

Businesses, communities, and wildlife across a vast portion of western Washington, western Oregon, and northwestern California rely on healthy national forests. Since 1994, the Northwest Forest Plan ...

Vanuatu, a tiny island nation in the South Pacific, has recently drawn international attention after its Prime Minister, Jotham Napat, ordered the cancellation of fugitive businessman Lalit Modi ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Amid efforts by the Trump administration to purge the federal workforce, a group of Democratic lawmakers in Washington state are voicing concerns that recent firings are ...