The Washington State penalty is going to be very stiff for traveling circuses that use these four species of animals in their ...

Washington is now the 12th state to restrict the use of animals in traveling acts such as circuses, petting zoos, and carnivals.

A new study suggests the platypus and echidna — the only egg-laying mammals — had a water-dwelling ancestor. The finding ...

The name “Twanoh” comes from the Native American Skokomish tribe and means “gathering place” – which is exactly what it ...

We share our favorite things to do in Portland with kids on a family vacation including the best indoor and outdoor ...

Everyone, that is, except for the state, which despite not opposing a motion filed earlier this month to vacate Abramowski's 2006 conviction and life sentence, told Circuit Judge Steve Henderson ...

The Washington State legislature has effectively banned circuses, with animals, from performing statewide under Senate Bill 5065. It’s long overdue, especially since some circuses have already ...

Pink and bulbous "sea pigs", hand-sized sea spiders and delicate sea butterflies are among the bizarre animals hauled up from the ocean floor by a team of Australian researchers aboard the ...

but Angel said none of them provide the intimacy with the animals that visitors get at the Capybara Cafe. Angel said she plans to open another capybara cafe across the state in St. Petersburg ...

Police are searching for a suspect in a 1997 Washington state homicide after a set of remains were identified with advanced forensic technology. The remains were found by a person walking through ...

Nick Brown, Washington’s attorney general, has accused Sheriff Wagner in a lawsuit of sharing inmate information with federal immigration agents in defiance of a state law meant to limit ...