SUQUAMISH, Wash. — Stacks of shipping containers lined the banks of the Duwamish River as Simeon Barker, an officer for the Suquamish Police Department's Marine Division, navigated a boat through the waterway’s industrial maw on an October morning.

On his upper sleeve was a green patch featuring a double-headed eagle design symbolic of The ...Read more

Eli McCreary of Omaha, Nebraska, said he had recently been diagnosed with kidney cancer when he got a call from a local hospital run by CHI Health. He said he was informed that he wasn’t insured anymore under Medicaid — and that the hospital would cancel his appointments unless he paid out-of-pocket.

McCreary, who was 64 at the time, said ...Read more

Rico Marquez, 24, remembers the first time he felt like a hero.

It was during his time at Pine Grove Youth Conservation Camp, a fire camp for incarcerated youth in Amador County, California, where he spent more than 1,600 hours fighting fires as an 18- and 19-year-old.

As the campers spent their days fighting wildfires, locals living in the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — California’s sky-high housing costs cast a dark shadow on its sunny disposition, sending some fleeing to more affordable climes.

Yet voters decisively rejected a state ballot measure that promised to make it easier and cheaper to build housing by changing the law often blamed for driving up costs: the California Environmental ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — A resident of a Two Harbors, Minnesota, nursing home received the wrong medication dose 39 times in a row last spring, resulting in emergency hospitalization for seizures the drugs were supposed to prevent.

A federal investigation of Waterview Shores found other medication errors and documented the mistakes, resulting in a $203,...Read more

Before this spring, Salt Lake City-based pediatrician Trahern W. Jones had never seen a case of measles in person.

Then he saw a few in one week. One of his patients had a rash and fever that were subsiding, but breathing was a struggle. Because of a swollen airway, the toddler was making a high-pitched squeaking sound, a tell-tale sign of ...Read more

One person has died in an E. coli outbreak that spread at a pumpkin farm in San Luis Obispo County last month, health officials confirmed Tuesday.

The outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli left more than a dozen people who visited the popular Brookshire Farms in late October with symptoms, including three children reportedly put in ...Read more

CHICAGO — Richard A. Posner, known for his storied career as a federal appellate judge and pioneering work in the field of law and economics, died Tuesday. He was 87.

The University of Chicago Law School, where Posner spent much of his tenure, announced the eminent scholar’s death in a news release Wednesday.

“There has never been a ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — San Jose declared a local emergency Tuesday to speed flood preparations and make $5.5 million in city reserves available ahead of a winter that officials and residents fear could threaten neighborhoods devastated by flooding in 2017.

Taking effect immediately, the declaration cuts bureaucratic red tape to fast-track ...Read more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Less than a month before leaving office, Gov. Mike Dunleavy announced that his administration had formed a public corporation intended to attract data centers to Alaska, along with a new platform to allow individuals to invest in the projects.

The initiative is led by the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority,...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Shouting that his name was Joshua Masias and that he was being taken to Sutter Hospital, a Sacramento resident was loaded into an ambulance following his detainment after a confrontation Wednesday with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at the John E. Moss Federal Building.

Masias was taken into custody ...Read more

All people carry differences in their DNA that could affect how they respond to medication, according to my team’s newly published research. Moreover, 1 in 4 already take a medication their body processes differently because of their genetics.

Clinicians often take a trial and error approach to prescriptions. Two people take the ...Read more

The Trump administration has formally said it plans to sell public lands as part of a plan to reduce the size of the federal estate.

The Interior Department’s four-year strategic plan released Wednesday didn’t specify how much land it plans to sell or how the land would be priced. The department, which manages some 480 million acres, didn�...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The California Federation of Teachers on Wednesday urged Gov. Gavin Newsom to order a three-year pause on artificial intelligence in K-8 public school classrooms, citing concerns that schools are adopting AI tools without adequate protections for students and educators.

The call followed Newsom’s September executive ...Read more

A Houston-area woman who came to play a central role in an incomplete arms deal struck between the Haiti National Police and a firm led by Bryan Seaver, nephew of late country singer Dolly Parton, has a record of prior financial fraud allegations.

The deal to supply Haitian security forces with semi-automatic rifles and thousands of rounds of ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — After President Donald Trump's unfounded claim that California's slow vote count during the June primary indicated cheating by Democrats, state and local elections officials made changes to speed things up — in part to dispel any questions about this month's crucial midterm elections.

The state of California allocated $29 ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s administration has taken steps to deny more than $112 million in Medicaid money from Minnesota after delaying reimbursements on more than half a billion in payments so far this year, state officials said this week.

The disallowance for July through September could mean Minnesota will have to find a way to pay for ...Read more