Search and rescue teams found one climber dead after falling 500 feet off a 13,000-foot mountain on New Year’s Eve.

The road to Paradise has ostensibly gotten easier to climb. After three consecutive seasons of limited openings at the gate to the state’s highest-elevation road-accessible winter wonderland, Mount ...

The top of the mountain is coming down. Five different U.S. mountains, including Mount Rainier, are experiencing ice loss at their peaks, bringing down their highest elevations. And the problem is ...

MOUNT VERNON, Iowa — Emergency services responded to Cornell College on Thursday evening after a student was found unconscious and not breathing in a dorm room. Authorities confirmed the student was ...

Washington lawmakers introduced legislation Tuesday aimed at restoring access to Mount Rainier National Park via the Fairfax Bridge “as soon as possible,” eight months after the state shut down the ...

Listen, kids. Is that Santa? Hurry, go put your shoes on so you can check outside! OK, adults, now that the kids are gone — you are teaching them to read the newspaper, right? — let’s talk about a ...

In the 25 years since the Gates Foundation was established by Bill Gates and his then-wife Melinda French Gates, the organization has helped drive a steady decline in global child mortality rates. In ...

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - The Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources (DWR) has a suspected cause in regard to the multiple dead vultures found in Rocky Mount on Tuesday, December 2, 2025. Shelby Crouch ...

The Pacific Northwest’s highest peak is a little less lofty than it used to be, according to a new study. Mount Rainier is now 10 feet shorter than it was in the 1990s, according to a study in the ...

MOUNT RAINIER, Wash. - A new study has revealed that Mount Rainier is experiencing a significant reduction in size due to shifting climate patterns. The findings, published in the "Arctic Antarctic ...

A Puyallup man said he’s lucky to be alive after surviving a nearly 200-foot fall down a cliff near Mount Rainier. Anthony Harris told KIRO 7 he was dirt bike riding with friends around 12:40 p.m.

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