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Christmas Tree Elegance brings 16 new trees to sparkle once again at Davenport, River Park Square

Spokane’s Christmas Tree Elegance launched for the 43rd year Tuesday, with trees spread between the Historic Davenport Hotel and River Park Square.

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Spokane ICE protester pleads guilty

Spokane woman whose basement flooded with sewage likely to receive $62,000 settlement from city

Tax break for Gonzaga events being cut to fund revamped city of Spokane arts office
DOJ sues WA secretary of state to demand voter data
Spokane County Commission passes $983 million 2026 budget, prioritizing funding for public safety while cutting more than 100 positions

Ashley Store opening in Spokane and Moscow

Updated 6:47 p.m.

A Seattle shipyard charts major growth even as US shipbuilding struggles

Updated 38 minutes ago

ShakeAlert sends false alarm about magnitude 5.9 earthquake in California, Nevada

Updated 3:40 p.m.

Israel and Lebanon take part in rare talks in bid to ease tensions

Seattle traffic worsens amid roadwork and return to office mandates

Updated 2:44 p.m.

Idaho sheriffs worry Medicaid mental health cuts pose ‘significant public-safety concern’

DOJ sues WA secretary of state to demand voter data

Are nonpartisan elections doomed? Idaho GOP head calls them a ‘farce’

Moses Lake School District asks court to order teachers back to classroom

Updated 2:43 p.m.

International students facilitate cultural, religious exchange at Spokane universities

Spokane Mayor Lisa Brown proposes citywide ban of Kratom and 7-OH

STA launches low-income riders program, cutting fares in half

Kids and squids: Third-graders conquer fears, learn science in squid dissection field trip

Remembering heroes: Keirsten Lyons honors fallen military members, families and veterans

Heavy snow expected in parts of US Midwest, Northeast

This day in history: The investigation into a controversial police shooting continued under prosecuting attorney Donald Brockett

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This day in history: The investigation into a controversial police shooting continued under prosecuting attorney Donald Brockett

Bombu Barber owner hosts food drive, reflective of Buddhist spiritual practices he holds near

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News > Washington

Hanford Patrol officer fired, sentenced for federal COVID fraud in side business

UPDATED: Thu., Dec. 4, 2025

A Pasco gun dealer who also worked for the Hanford Patrol has been sentenced to two years probation but no jail time after pleading guilty to defrauding the federal government in his private business. Leif Gerald Larsen was sentenced Wednesday by Judge Stanley Bastian in the Yakima U.S. Courthouse for wire fraud related to U.S. government loans intended to help small businesses remain afloat ...

News > Spokane

Spokane joins cities banning use of ‘price-fixing’ algorithms. Their use in the city appears to have been widespread.

UPDATED: Thu., Dec. 4, 2025

Spokane has joined the growing list of cities across the country to ban the use of algorithmic software that landlords have allegedly used to coordinate rent increases, which some Spokane City Council members and prosecutors across the country have likened to cartel-like behavior.

News > Features

Woman, 101, visits NorthTown Mall Santa as part of new tradition after career on the other side of the Christmas camera

UPDATED: Thu., Dec. 4, 2025

Irma Almond was behind the camera 70 years ago, capturing the quintessential mall Santa photos at Crescent Court and the Bon Marché.

News > K-12 education

Spokane Public Schools approves $32 million purchase of a new fleet of school buses

UPDATED: Thu., Dec. 4, 2025

Spokane Public Schools is buying its own buses as it moves toward operating its own fleet.

News > Nation

Supreme Court lets Texas use GOP-redrawn congressional map

UPDATED: Thu., Dec. 4, 2025

A sharply divided Supreme Court said Thursday that it would allow Texas to use a new congressional map that targets five seats held by Democrats in next year’s midterms.

News > WA Government

State treasurer to again push for financial education requirement for high schoolers

UPDATED: Thu., Dec. 4, 2025

OLYMPIA – While State Treasurer Mike Pellicciotti has been in office, he has spoken to thousands of people across the state. Not one, Pellicciotti said Thursday, has told him they feel adequately versed in financial education or financial literacy.

News > Crime/Public Safety

Boise-area prison escapee accused of brutally killing two men in North Central Idaho pleads guilty to murder

UPDATED: Thu., Dec. 4, 2025

The man who cut his own wrists so he could flee a Boise prison pleaded guilty on Wednesday to killing two men in north-central Idaho after his escape.

News > Nation

Outlook murky as yet another effort to redraw Florida’s congressional map begins

UPDATED: Thu., Dec. 4, 2025

Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida House Republicans appear ready to throw Florida into a mid-decade redistricting battle. But they don’t agree on when to start.

News > Crime/Public Safety

Woman in Spokane Valley collapses in roadway, is hit and killed by car

UPDATED: Thu., Dec. 4, 2025

A woman was hit by a car and died in Spokane Valley after she collapsed while crossing the roadway.

News > K-12 education

Jenny Slagle appointed Spokane Public School Board president

UPDATED: Thu., Dec. 4, 2025

The Spokane Public Schools Board has a new leader after unanimously appointing Jenny Slagle as president at Wednesday night’s meeting.

News > Nation

Cassidy suggests HHS is anti-science ahead of hepatitis B meeting

UPDATED: Thu., Dec. 4, 2025

WASHINGTON — Sen. Bill Cassidy, a physician and Republican health care leader in Congress, on Wednesday offered his harshest criticism yet of the Health and Human Services Department under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s advisory panel considers the childhood vaccine schedule. The agency’s vaccine advisory committee on Thursday plans to ...

News > Business

Ashley Store opening in Spokane and Moscow

UPDATED: Thu., Dec. 4, 2025

Broad River Retail announced on Thursday that it plans to open a new Ashley Store in Moscow next year. That event follows the expected opening later this month of the company's largest store in the former Macy's building in NorthTown Mall.

News > Nation

Suspect arrested in Jan. 6 pipe bombing attempt on both parties’ HQs

UPDATED: Thu., Dec. 4, 2025

A suspect has been arrested and charged with planting twin pipe bombs outside the Washington, D.C. headquarters of the two major parties on the eve of the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, officials said Thursday.

News > Sci/Tech

‘Space gum,’ sugars crucial for life found on Bennu sample, NASA says

UPDATED: Thu., Dec. 4, 2025

The Bennu asteroid, a space rock not too far from Earth that is rich in carbon, continues to be a trove of information for scientists keen to learn about how life may have begun in our solar system.

News > National business

Amazon to pay $3.7M to settle Seattle labor law investigation

UPDATED: Thu., Dec. 4, 2025

Amazon is paying a more than $3.7 million settlement after the Seattle Office of Labor Standards investigated allegations that the company's Flex business violated the city's protection law for gig and app-based workers.

News > Nation

Trump admin threatened to withhold SNAP funds in Pa. and N.J. unless recipient data is released. N.J. AG called stance ‘immoral’

UPDATED: Thu., Dec. 4, 2025

The Trump administration’s threat to withhold money that Democratic-run states use to administer the SNAP food aid program unless officials release personal information about individual recipients puts 2 million people in Pennsylvania and more than 800,000 in New Jersey at risk of food insecurity.

News > Nation

ShakeAlert sends false alarm about magnitude 5.9 earthquake in California, Nevada

UPDATED: Thu., Dec. 4, 2025

The ShakeAlert computer system that warns about the imminent arrival of shaking from earthquakes sent out a false alarm Thursday morning for a magnitude 5.9 temblor in Carson City, Nev., that did not actually happen.

News > Nation

He’s 88, working full-time and struggling to retire. A viral video changed everything.

UPDATED: Thu., Dec. 4, 2025

At 88, Ed Bambas isn't living the life he'd always dreamed of. Bambas, an Army veteran, told social media influencer Samuel Weidenhofer that he lost his pension and health insurance in 2012. Around the same time, his wife was sick. He sold his home to cover the cost of caring for her.

News > K-12 education

Moses Lake School District asks court to order teachers back to classroom

UPDATED: Thu., Dec. 4, 2025

The Moses Lake School District has filed a lawsuit to return teachers to the classroom, district Director of Public Relations Ryan Shannon said Wednesday.

News > Nation

New IRS rules on overtime and tips could complicate 2025 tax returns

UPDATED: Thu., Dec. 4, 2025

Brand new rules for tax breaks on overtime and tip income are bound to drive taxpayers bonkers when trying to file their 2025 federal income tax returns next year.

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