Research firm IDC has just released its forecast predicting that tablet shipments will beat those of notebooks this year and surpass total PC shipments (notebooks and desktops) by 2015. It cites the growing popularity of tablets as well as the plunging PC market. IDC is forecasting negative growth f

Research firm IDC has just released its forecast predicting that tablet shipments will beat those of notebooks this year and surpass total PC shipments (notebooks and desktops) by 2015. It cites the growing popularity of tablets as well as the plunging PC market. IDC is forecasting negative growth f

On the first workday after the holiday weekend, the state Transportation Department (WSDOT) is reporting relatively minor back-ups in the area of the Interstate 5 bridge collapse over the Skagit River. As of 9:40 a.m., WSDOT reported no back-ups on northbound detour routes and back-ups of a hal

On the first workday after the holiday weekend, the state Transportation Department (WSDOT) is reporting relatively minor back-ups in the area of the Interstate 5 bridge collapse over the Skagit River. As of 9:40 a.m., WSDOT reported no back-ups on northbound detour routes and back-ups of a hal

A small earthquake rattled the Entiat area on Tuesday morning.

Chile and Argentina are evacuating nearly 3,000 people after officials issued a red alert for the increasingly active Copahue volcano bordering the two countries.

India and Japan share a strong strategic interest in expanding cooperation on maritime security and promoting regional stability, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Tuesday.

A man who lived as a hermit in the woods of central Maine for nearly three decades has told authorities his eyeglasses are the only thing he owns.

A man who gained Internet fame as "Kai, the hatchet-wielding hitchhiker" will be returning to New Jersey to face a murder charge in the death of a lawyer.

One of three people who ended up in the chilly Skagit River after a bridge collapsed in Washington state says she can't swim and is crediting her husband with saving her life.

One of three people who ended up in the chilly Skagit River after a bridge collapsed in Washington state says she can't swim and is crediting her husband with saving her life.

It's an image as Brazilian as Carnival or Rio's Christ the Redeemer statue.

The Teamsters union is stepping up its campaign to unseat other unions in the airline industry.

Everyone's favorite literary singleton will return in a new novel entitled "Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy."

European leaders sounded the alarm on youth unemployment Tuesday and called for more help for businesses to help solve the problem that has left nearly one in four young people in Europe without a job.

UPDATE 1:30 a.m. |  Rescuers are rigging equipment they hope will allow them lift a small horse out of  40-foot ravine nead Redmond into which it fell Monday evening.  The plan is to lift the horse, placed in a harness, up to a ledge from which it could w

Jury selection has begun in the military trial of a former U.S. Naval Academy teacher accused of sexually assaulting a female student.

The European Union's antitrust chief said Tuesday that Google will have to offer more changes to the way it displays search results to settle a pending case.

A few Seahawks links this morning as OTAs resume today. .., — ESPN reports on a Kam Chancellor radio interview in which he says the vets called a team meeting over the PED issue. This might have been the same meeting Russell Wilson referred to last week, as well, and simply getting a lot of

Officials say streets vendors have clashed with police enforcing new regulations in a Tunisian town, and one local resident was killed and 17 police officers were wounded.