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PORTLAND, Ore. ( KOIN) – A “playful” polar bear is making a splash as the newest arrival at the Oregon Zoo. Kallik, a ...

A Masai giraffe calf named Aspen was born on December 29, 2025, marking a significant win for conservationists.

The Cincinnati Police Department is searching for a suspect accused of breaking into and stealing from a car at the ...

President Grover Cleveland officially signed an act of Congress into law creating the National Zoological Park in 1889 for ...

Attorney General Pam Bondi says the search of a Washington Post reporter’s home was done at the Pentagon’s request as part of ...

President Donald Trump says that NATO should help the U.S. acquire Greenland and anything less than having the island in U.S.

Beginning this season, local Washington Nationals games will be produced and distributed by Major League Baseball, making ...

Newly-released police videos show the sequence of events when a man walking on I-5 in Seattle threw a Washington State Patrol trooper to the ground and stole her patrol car on Christmas Day. The ...

Two sloth bear cubs were born at the National Zoo, which appears to be good news for this vulnerable species and perhaps bad news for the termites on which they dine. The births, which occurred Dec. 7 ...

A quiet Washington Township neighborhood is on edge after a masked intruder was caught on camera breaking into homes on New Year’s Eve. Police say the suspect is linked to a burglary and multiple ...