February 16, 2009 in City OLYMPIA – Three weeks after a teenage girl was killed trying to cross U.S. 195 from Cheney-Spokane Road, two local lawmakers on Monday introduced legislation to pay for work to …

February 16, 2009 in City OLYMPIA – Don’t look for a flood of federal or state cash to suddenly speed up construction on the 53-years-and-counting North Spokane Corridor. The federal stimulus plan, slated to be …

February 16, 2009 in Idaho BOISE – Idaho’s beer and wine taxes would more than triple to pay for substance-abuse treatment under legislation that narrowly won introduction in a House committee on Monday.

February 16, 2009 in Region FORT LEWIS, Wash. — The Army says one 16-year-old civilian girl was found dead and another was found unresponsive in a barracks on the Fort Lewis base south of Tacoma.

February 16, 2009 in Region OLYMPIA — Gov. Chris Gregoire on Monday signed into law a measure boosting benefits for the unemployed, saying that some Washington families are struggling and need immediate help.

February 16, 2009 in Idaho Minimal licensing requirements for every Idaho day-care with four or more unrelated children - including criminal background checks - were introduced in the Idaho Legislature today for the fifth straight …

  February 16, 2009 in City Read the Spokane Police activity and service logs for Feb. 11 to Feb. 15, 2009.

February 16, 2009 in City, Region The $787 billion economic stimulus bill to be signed this week by President Obama “is not the end of what we need to do,” U.S. Sen. Patty Murray said Monday.

February 16, 2009 in City Five large thermal windows and a smaller upper window in the newly remodeled library at Shadle Park High School were shattered by gunfire over the weekend. 1

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February 16, 2009 in Idaho Kristin David disappeared in June 1981 while riding her bicycle from Moscow to Clarkston, and about a week later the dismembered body of the 22-year-old University of Idaho student was …

  February 16, 2009 in Idaho Read the Bonner County law enforcement log for Feb. 13 and Feb. 15, 2009.

February 16, 2009 in City, Idaho North Idaho traffic in the westbound lanes of Interstate 90 at the Washington state line was slowed this morning as workers from the Idaho Department of Transportation worked to repair …

February 16, 2009 in Idaho Detectives say they are still trying to contact potential witnesses and sort through details surround a suspicious death of a Lewiston woman.

February 16, 2009 in City, Idaho Two inches of new snow that fell late Sunday left roads icy earlier today, but warming temperatures had melted much of the snow by noon.

February 16, 2009 in City on Page A1 WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama plans to appoint senior administration officials – rather than a single “car czar,” as had been discussed – to oversee a restructuring of the auto …

February 16, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A1 PHOENIX – In broad daylight one afternoon last month, on a street of ranch-style houses with kidney-shaped swimming pools, Juan Francisco Perez-Torres was kidnapped in front of his wife, daughter …

February 16, 2009 in City on Page A3 ELMENDORF AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska – Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton warned North Korea on Sunday that it needs to live up to its commitments to dismantle its nuclear …