In many cultures, age equals wisdom and status. Calling someone “older” or “more mature” can be a sign of respect. In ...

Trump claimed last week on social media that “Our economy is BOOMING, and Costs are coming way down,” and that “grocery ...

Sound Off is an opinion forum for Mercury readers to offer brief comments on today’s news. Submissions must be 75 words or ...

Kaya Scodelario thinks she's been "very fortunate" in her career. The 33-year-old actress came to prominence in Skins, the ...

A similar proportion of eighth-graders failed to come up with the following sum: 12 + (-4) + 12 + 4 = _______. By the 12th ...

“My English small, but my thinking big,” she said as she held her thumb and forefinger close together, almost touching. The class erupted in laughter, not unkindly, and she laughed too.

Read team previews and score predictions for five games across the South Sound in Week 8, plus our pick for the state game of the week. Tumwater running back Peyton Davis runs drills during a football ...

JAPAN is commonly categorized as an English-as-a-foreign-language country. In contemporary paradigms of English studies, it belongs to what is known as the Expanding Circle, in contrast to the United ...

Rapid City Public Library Director Terri Davis shows off the library’s new sound garden. The career fair was at The Monument ...

English as a life skill is a straight and simple tool of communication striped of its historical baggage, a skill for employment and a vehicle for reaching the outside world of knowledge. It has been ...