March 22, 2013 in City A Hillyard home is destroyed after a fire ripped through the structure and displacing a family and their pets.

March 22, 2013 in Sports Read somewhere that of the 8.15 million entries in ESPN’s Bracket Challenge, only two had all 16 of Thursday’s games wrong. 1

March 22, 2013 in Idaho BOISE – Extra-heavy trucks could roll on North Idaho highways under controversial legislation that passed the Idaho House on Friday and headed to the governor’s desk. 3

March 22, 2013 in City Spokane Police apprehended a man potentially connected with an early-morning homicide in Kennewick this evening at an northeast Spokane home. 6

March 22, 2013 in City A domestic violence call in an Airway Heights trailer park this morning quickly turned into a brief hunt for a man and assault charges against a woman for pointing a … 30

March 22, 2013 in Region A possible drive-by shooting injured one man in Adams County this morning. 6

March 22, 2013 in Business Kootenai County’s unemployment rate fell to 6 percent last month. That is nearly as low as in the summer of 2008, when the Great Recession was beginning to grip the … 10

March 22, 2013 in City An intoxicated pedestrian standing in the middle of the street was struck by a vehicle near West Garland Avenue and North Lincoln Street around 5 a.m. today, police said. 6

March 22, 2013 in Region One man is dead and his alleged killer, his son, was shot and wounded by officers in Okanogan County Friday night. 1

March 22, 2013 in Nation/World QUANTICO, Va. (AP) — A Marine killed a male and female colleague in a shooting at a base in northern Virginia before killing himself, officials said. It began with a … 95

March 22, 2013 in City on Page A1 The Washington attorney general’s office is pushing for more regulatory review of natural gas purchases by Avista and other utilities, saying hedging strategies are costing ratepayers. The Public Counsel Division … 23

March 22, 2013 in City, Health on Page A1 Premera Blue Cross, the largest health insurer in Eastern Washington, has toned down earlier warnings of “staggering” rate increases that it had blamed on federal health care reform, but still … 47

March 22, 2013 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – The gun legislation set to hit the Senate floor next month will include universal background checks, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., announced Thursday. Reid had hinted earlier … 15

March 22, 2013 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – Moving on two fronts, the Republican-controlled House on Thursday voted to keep the government running for the next six months while pushing through a tea-party flavored budget for … 4