August 22, 2012 in Sports Everybody is checked in and, in theory, ready to begin. After days of fitness testing to see if their young talent adaquately prepared over the summer, the Spokane Chiefs coaching …

August 22, 2012 in City Spokane Public Schools’ board voted unanimously Wednesday to approve $21.4 million in proposed bond projects — $16 million at North Central High School and $5.4 million at Mullan Road Elementary … 11

August 22, 2012 in Health U.S. health officials reported Wednesday three times the usual number of West Nile cases for this time of year and one expert called it “one of the largest” outbreaks since …

August 22, 2012 in City In a case originally believed to be a hit-and-run homicide, detectives continue to seek information in what has since been ruled the suspicious death of a 25-year-old man.

August 22, 2012 in Idaho Authorities have lifted a health advisory issued last week for Hayden Lake after high concentrations of blue-green algae were found.

August 22, 2012 in City Spokane Valley Police investigators are seeking help locating a man accused of twice hitting another man in the head with a sword during a dispute Monday night over something else. 6

August 22, 2012 in Health Opponents of a plan to add fluoride to Portland’s water supply are not waiting for the City Council to pass it.

August 22, 2012 in City A Newman Lake man was injured early Wednesday in a three-vehicle pile-up on Interstate 90 near the Sprague Avenue exit. 1

August 22, 2012 in Idaho The state of Idaho is paying $750,000 to former Transportation Director Pam Lowe to settle her wrongful-firing lawsuit, bringing the state’s total cost for the case to $1.34 million. 12

August 22, 2012 in Region MOSES LAKE, Wash. — The Grant County sheriff’s office says a man shot and wounded by a sheriff’s deputy responding to a domestic violence complaint is reported in serious but …

August 22, 2012 in Nation/World on Page A1 As part of the biggest, costliest environmental cleanup in the nation’s history – disposing of 53 million gallons of radioactive waste at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state – … 5

August 22, 2012 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – A federal appeals court Tuesday struck down a key Obama administration air pollution rule meant to protect residents of some states from polluters in neighboring states, saying that … 3

August 22, 2012 in Nation/World on Page A2 KEY WEST, Fla. – Diana Nyad ended her fourth attempt to swim across the Straits of Florida on Tuesday, her decades-old dream thwarted, more than anything else, by jellyfish. Storms …

August 22, 2012 in Health, Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – Republicans who are drafting the party’s platform approved strong anti-abortion language Tuesday that makes no exceptions to allow abortion in cases of rape or incest, a statement of … 16

August 22, 2012 in Nation/World on Page A4 MEXICO CITY – Mexico’s largest crime group, Los Zetas, appears to be splintering into two rival factions locked in occasional open warfare with each other, experts say. The factions are …