This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Rachel Martin. Washington state residents held a moment of silence yesterday to honor the victims of the massive mudslide that flattened a swath of a small ...

A Cedar Rapids native was among the victims of the March 22 mudslide in Oso, Washington. Lon Slauson, 60, was born in Cedar Rapids in 1954. After serving as a sergeant in the U.S. Army he worked as a ...

Oso, Washington (KING5) -- The search area at the Oso landslide is now considered contaminated due to sewage and chemicals. Searchers on Tuesday donned protective suits. The number of people killed in ...

Members of the Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks and the Seattle Sounders soccer team plan a visit to a community affected by the deadly Washington state mudslide. Kris Rietmann, a spokeswoman for ...

Rescue workers sifted through mucky rubble on Tuesday amid dwindling hopes of finding any more survivors from among scores of people still missing from a devastating weekend mudslide in Washington ...

OLYMPIA Wash. (Reuters) - The widow of a man killed in the Washington state mudslide has filed damage claims asserting that official inaction contributed to the disaster that took more than 40 lives.

" 'We have people who are yelling for help and we are out there,' Travis Hots, Snohomish County district fire chief, said about 10:30 p.m. 'This is a massive slide, and we are in a very, very fluid ...

ARLINGTON, Washington (Reuters) - The number of people still missing following a massive mudslide in Washington state has been cut to 22 from 30, county officials said on Monday. The official death ...