Washington State University News

The Oregon Zoo's ZooLights celebration runs through Jan. 3. The photography display featuring work by Harrison Higgs ends today at the North Bank Artists Gallery in Vancouver.

Starting next spring, up to 60,000 utility customers in five Pacific Northwest states will have the chance to help regional utilities test smart grid technology - also called the Internet for the electric power grid.

Avista will lead a smart grid demonstration project that will create the first "smart community" in the Pacific Northwest.

A project to examine how high technology can improve the Pacific Northwest's electric power grid has received an $88.8 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy.

Washington's budget hole is getting deeper, and today state leaders will find out how much.

The spirit of Aloha is alive and well in Silverdale. Local residents now have a place to treat their palates to Hawaiian-style cooking with the recent opening of Aloha Kitchen in the Chuck E. Cheese plaza on Silverdale Way.

A new state revenue forecast is due today, and you don't need a crystal ball to know it will be bad news.

The rise of Adderall-addled college students continues the trend of prescription drug abuse in this country.

The pornographic film actor known as Jack Venice has been sentenced to life in prison for raping a woman at a Washington State University sorority.

"There's a lady laying in the middle of the street," said the caller to the 911 operator.

One of two species in the vinegar fly family that's proven harmful to crops has traveled up the West Coast and into Skagit Valley, becoming a threat to small fruit crops along the way.

The condition of a recent Washington State University graduate found bleeding and unconscious along a rural road in Whitman County is improving.

A Congolese burial team in protective gear prepares to put the coffin of an Ebola victim in a grave.

National studies show that as many as 1 in 4 students in a college setting may have abused the prescription drug Adderall for recreation or as a stimulant.

Michael O'Leary / The Herald Brianna Monlux gets a lick from Cooper after she and Chris Thompson examined the Australian shepherd during class at Snohomish High School.

Whitman County Sheriff's deputies have new clues in the case of a Washington State University graduate found seriously injured on a rural road.

A Washington State University college student fell three stories from a fraternity and landed on a parked car.

A real estate group says home prices fell in eight out of every 10 U.S. cities in the third quarter of this year as heavily discounted distressed sales made up 30 percent of all deals.

It looked like a stunning reversal: the same church that helped defeat gay marriage in California standing with gay-rights activists on an anti-discrimination law in its own backyard.

Police say a 20-year-old Washington State University student fell three stories from the Alpha Kappa Lambda fraternity and landed on a parked SUV.