Sixty percent of rural Americans live in child care deserts — regions with too few licensed slots for children. In rural ...

Work will begin Saturday to transform a vacant lot in Tacoma’s Hilltop neighborhood into a new 32,000-square-foot child care ...

Dana Christiansen, owner of Tree Hill Learning Centers in Vancouver and Camas, is struggling to balance rising costs with the goal of paying her staff a living wage and keeping her facility running. C ...

The problems identified in the report included a cascading list of failures at the Department of Health and Human Services’ child welfare ... recent federal foster care data showed that the ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s opinions about vaccine safety may lead at least a few Senate Republicans to vote against his ...

Democrats harshly criticized President Donald Trump for a news conference Thursday in which he said that his predecessors and diversity were to blame for Wednesday night’s fatal collision of an Army ...

Three of President Donald Trump’s cabinet picks prepared for skepticism and intense grilling from Democratic senators during their confirmation hearings Thursday ...

Outgoing Department of Human Services head Laura Zeilinger reflected ... fewer babies with low birth weight after expanding its care model to focus on social needs, a study finds.