Military

The Trump administration gave transgender troops an ultimatum this spring when it announced that it wanted them all out of the military. Leave voluntarily and get an honorable discharge and extra separation pay, or wait to be forced out and potentially face negative repercussions.

While watching the dozens of tanks and thousands of soldiers scheduled to parade through the nation’s capital later this month, keep an eye out for a pair of pricked ears and a bushy, white-tipped tail.

Morale is plummeting inside the Department of Veterans Affairs as tens of thousands of employees prepare for deep staffing cuts, raising alarms among employees, veterans and advocates who fear the reductions would severely damage care and benefits for millions of the nation’s former service members.

“Memorial Day is just one day set aside for the specific purpose of honoring those that have given their lives in defense of our great nation," said Solomon Gilbert, deputy director of Washington’s Department of Veteran's Affairs. "It is a day to remember their sacrifice and their courage to be willing to give everything. We remember our loved ones; they are friends, our family, our fellow service members. The calendar says we set aside one special day, but our hearts and minds know we remember them always.”

Green Bluff’s Siemers Farm, known for strawberry and fall festivals, transformed into a Civil War battlefield this Memorial Day weekend.

The bottle of Jameson Irish Whiskey on the counter was a birthday gift from one of his 10 children. It'll last Frank Fogarty, a one-drink kind of guy, a while.He's someone who's made a habit of making things last. Fogarty turned 101 on Friday.

WASHINGTON – Charlie Pase considers himself “unusually lucky.”

A snapshot of Isaac Morris’ current life might show a promising young man, near graduation from a prestigious school and dedicated captain of the cross country team. But the past few years in his life have been marred by tragedy .

As part of what an aide to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly called a "digital content refresh," many references on the U.S. Department of Defense's website that celebrated Native Americans who used their language to help American forces in the Pacific Theater of World War II have been purged.

The Spokane County Veterans Services Center continues to grow – in veterans served and the benefits it brings in for those former service members.

Two active-duty U.S. soldiers stationed in Washington state and one former soldier in Oregon were arrested on Thursday, accused of passing classified information including weapons documents and hard drives to contacts in China as recently as December, according to federal court documents unsealed on Wednesday and Thursday.

Less than six months after he was surprised with a new home site in northwest Spokane, a U.S. Air Force veteran and his family are finally home.

Directives from Washington, D.C., are adding to an already confused employment situation for the federal workers at Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center in Spokane.

OLYMPIA – Washington has joined 20 other states in supporting a legal challenge to a federal ban on transgender military personnel serving in the armed forces.

Two aviators were plucked from the water by an alert fishing boat crew and rescued after their Navy jet crashed into San Diego Bay near Shelter Island on Wednesday, officials said.

Dozens of American students at a U.S. military installation in Germany walked out of their middle school on Tuesday as part of protests aimed at an official visit by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, underscoring the scope of disillusionment with the Trump administration’s crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.

Doug Collins, the former congressman and Air Force Reserve chaplain from Georgia, has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve as the secretary of Veterans Affairs.

Aerospace and defense manufacturer RTX Corp. is “fully prepared” to support President Donald Trump’s ambitions to build an orbital missile defense system to protect the U.S. Trump signed an executive order this week calling for the Pentagon to develop “an Iron Dome for America,” that would feature the creation and deployment of space-based interceptors to destroy missiles from foreign ...