Posted: May 15, 2013

To graduate from a public high school in Washington, students in the classes of 2013 and 2014 must pass the state's High School Proficiency Exam (HSPE) in reading and writing and an End-Of-Course (EOC... Read more →

Posted: May 07, 2013

Washington state has one of the lowest rates of out-of-wedlock births in the U.S., according to the Census Bureau. A new report issued in May 2013 says that in the most recent year for which detailed ... Read more →

Posted: April 09, 2013

U.S. states with the highest skin cancer rates tend to have a high proportion of whites in their population while those with the lowest rates don't. And the top two states for skin cancer, Vermont and... Read more →

Posted: March 28, 2013

Earlier this month, the U.S. government reported the death rate for Alzheimer's disease rose 39 percent from 2000 to 2010 and that in 2010 Washington had the highest rate among U.S. states. Yet which ... Read more →

Posted: March 15, 2013

Five years of data from the National Cancer Institute's State Cancer Profiles database show that within Washington state, the overall rate of cancer is highest in western counties and lowest in rural ... Read more →