March 10, 2011 in Sports Fifth-seeded Idaho (15-15), playing without senior Derisa Taleni, who was back in the hospital with a kidney infection one day after passing a kidney stone, fell to Nevada 75-61 in …

March 10, 2011 in Sports Tatjana Sparavalo scored a game-high 25 points and grabbed eight rebounds to help lead Eastern Washington to a 77-68 win over Montana State in the opening round of the Big …

March 10, 2011 in Sports Spokane head coach Rob Keefe believes his team plays in the toughest division in the Arena Football League. The AFL preseason poll seems to agree with Keefe.

March 10, 2011 in Sports Whitworth University’s Jim Hayford has taken nothing for granted in preparing his No. 1-ranked and top-seeded Pirates (27-1) for Friday’s sectional semifinal showdown against 11th-ranked Marietta College (27-3) in Wooster, …

March 10, 2011 in Idaho Just three of Idaho’s 44 counties - Kootenai, Canyon and Ada - accounted for nearly two-thirds of the state’s population growth in the past decade, and that has big implications …

March 10, 2011 in News Deaconess Medical Center has severed its 17-year partnership stake in Inland Northwest Health Services (INHS) as part of a lawsuit settlement announced Thursday.

March 10, 2011 in City, News Investigators believe the man charged with planting a bomb on the route of the Martin Luther King Jr. march in Spokane posted more than a thousand entries talking about a … 8

March 10, 2011 in Idaho, Region Boise suburbs and the North Idaho cities of Post Falls and Hayden were among the fastest-growing areas of Idaho in the past decade, the U.S. Census Bureau reported today.

March 10, 2011 in Idaho An Idaho legislative committee has voted 11-8 in favor of legislation to permit guns on the state’s college and university campuses anywhere but in undergrad student dorms - over the … 21

March 10, 2011 in Region A fiercely protective, elderly mutt is up for a national hero award for pestering her owner in the hours before he had a heart attack and then barking for help … 2

March 10, 2011 in City, Idaho Extremely wet weather is dousing the Inland Northwest today in a pattern that one forecaster described as an “atmospheric river.” 3

March 10, 2011 in City on Page A1 • Download the federal complaint against Kevin Harpham at spokesman.com/documents • Read complete background on the bombing attempt at the MLK Day march at spokesman.com/topics 1

March 10, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A2 DHARMSALA, India – The Dalai Lama said today that he will be giving up his political role in Tibet’s government-in-exile, shifting that power to an elected representative. The Tibetan spiritual … 1

March 10, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – The Democratic-led Senate on Wednesday emphatically rejected a budget-slashing House spending bill as too draconian. It then immediately killed a rival Democratic plan that was derided by moderate …

March 10, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A4 RAS LANOUF, Libya – A giant yellow fireball shot into the sky, trailed by thick plumes of black smoke Wednesday after fighting between rebels and forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi …