A new study co-led by researchers at Washington State University aims to understand why significantly more women study engineering in some predominantly Muslim countries than in the United States.The study seeks to identify what motivates women to pursue engineering in Jordan, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia and Tunisia, where participation rates by...

Very few women ever fly planes.“Just 5 to 6 percent of all pilots are women,” said the treasurer and spokeswoman for the Mid-Columbia Ninety-Nines, an organization that supports female pilots.

By John StangThe “levy cliff” is a little known, but very real budget problem facing public schools in two years that often gets lost amid the discussion of the Washington Legislature deadlocking over funding a state Supreme Court ruling to increase the number of teachers in the state.The levy cliff...

Joanna Dunn and Heather Anastos came to practice and teach yoga for two different reasons.Dunn started yoga as a way to cope with and manage depression and anxiety, while Anastos practiced for therapeutic relief of neck and back pain.But Dunn said their different experiences are perhaps what makes their new...