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Strike imminent: No more contract negotiations before Providence Sacred Heart tech workers’ work stoppage next week

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Both sides are hurdling towards a strike as contract negotiations have halted between Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and the union representing the hospital’s technical workers.

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Woman charged with killing 70-year-old man claims man picked her up from side of highway, offered to pay her for sex

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Updated: Spokane Valley boy, 15, found safe
German Shepherd intervenes as its 17-year-old owner is nearly attacked by another dog, pit bull is shot
Woman accused of killing ex-partner in Mead amid ongoing custody battle; Khaleel earlier acquitted of killing 5-year-old

Local appeals judge one step closer to appointment for U.S District Court in Spokane

Updated 8:52 p.m.

Alaska Airlines flights resume after an hour of grounding Wednesday

Stocks advance as earnings return to center stage

Trump takes aim at a remaining House Republican who voted to impeach him

Updated 9:41 p.m.

Ukraine says 17 dead as Russian missiles hit northern city

The Washington GOP convention kicks off Thursday in Spokane. Here’s what’s at stake

Updated 9:23 p.m.

Attorneys for Bryan Kohberger file alibi defense in Idaho student homicide case

Updated 9:23 p.m.

New Washington law authorizes tax breaks for affordable housing built on state land

North Idaho College has one last shot to fix accreditation

Second times the charm? Freeman School District seeks capital levy again after failure in February

Updated 8:50 p.m.

How do you name them apples? WSU seeks public input on what to name its new variety

Strike imminent: No more contract negotiations before Providence Sacred Heart tech workers’ work stoppage next week

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Spokane Bike Swap returns to fairgrounds this weekend

Spokane joins PFAS lawsuit against chemical manufacturers

Cost of sustaining Lockheed’s F-35 jet now forecast to exceed $1.5 trillion

Dubai’s record rain floods expensive homes and halts flights

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Could Mary’s Place be saved? As demolition nears for the historic South Hill home, its fate remains uncertain

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Strike imminent: No more contract negotiations before Providence Sacred Heart tech workers’ work stoppage next week

Wed., April 17, 2024

Both sides are hurdling towards a strike as contract negotiations have halted between Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and the union representing the hospital’s technical workers.

News > Washington

The Washington GOP convention kicks off Thursday in Spokane. Here’s what’s at stake

UPDATED: Wed., April 17, 2024

The state Republican Party is expected to decide Friday whether to endorse Congressman Dan Newhouse or throw its support behind former NASCAR driver Jerrod Sessler, who is Newhouse’s only challenger in the upcoming primary.

News > Crime/Public Safety

Spokane Valley boy, 15, found safe

UPDATED: Wed., April 17, 2024

Spokane Valley deputies on Wednesday found a 15-year-old boy who had been missing after not returning home from school Wednesday.

News > K-12 education

Second times the charm? Freeman School District seeks capital levy again after failure in February

UPDATED: Wed., April 17, 2024

Rockford voters may think they’re experiencing a case of deja vu when filling out their ballots for the special election April 23.

News > Idaho

Attorneys for Bryan Kohberger file alibi defense in Idaho student homicide case

UPDATED: Wed., April 17, 2024

Attorneys for Bryan Kohberger met the Wednesday deadline to file their client’s alibi defense in the murder case against him in the deaths of four University of Idaho students in November 2022. In a 10-page filing near the end of the day, Kohberger’s attorneys added extra details about where their client said he was at the time of the early morning knife attack at an off-campus house in Moscow. ...

News > Crime/Public Safety

German Shepherd intervenes as its 17-year-old owner is nearly attacked by another dog, pit bull is shot

UPDATED: Wed., April 17, 2024

A 17-year-old girl’s German Shepherd intervened as two dogs ran from a nearby home and attempted to attack her on Tuesday, Spokane police said in a news release.

News > Crime/Public Safety

Woman charged with killing 70-year-old man claims man picked her up from side of highway, offered to pay her for sex

UPDATED: Wed., April 17, 2024

A 27-year-old woman charged with hitting and killing a 70-year-old man with his own truck last week in Spokane told police the man picked her up from the side of a highway and offered to pay her for sex.

News > Nation/World

Trump takes aim at a remaining House Republican who voted to impeach him

UPDATED: Wed., April 17, 2024

Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-Wash.) is among a dying breed in Congress: Of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Donald Trump after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, just Newhouse and one other remain in the chamber. If Trump has his way, that won’t be the case much longer.

News > Nation/World

Senate votes to dismiss impeachment charges against Mayorkas

UPDATED: Wed., April 17, 2024

The Senate voted to dismiss two articles of impeachment against Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, which allege he mismanaged an influx of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border. Both votes were along party lines.

News > Crime/Public Safety

Woman accused of killing ex-partner in Mead amid ongoing custody battle; Khaleel earlier acquitted of killing 5-year-old

UPDATED: Wed., April 17, 2024

A 37-year-old woman once acquitted of killing her 5-year-old nephew is in custody after investigators say she killed her ex-partner amid an ongoing custody battle.

News > Nation/World

Johnson pushes ahead on foreign aid bill, teeing up a weekend vote

UPDATED: Wed., April 17, 2024

Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday told Republicans that the House would vote Saturday evening on his foreign aid package for Israel and Ukraine, pushing through resistance in his own party to advance a long-stalled national security spending package for U.S. allies.

News > Nation/World

NPR editor Uri Berliner resigns after accusing network of bias

UPDATED: Wed., April 17, 2024

An NPR editor resigned Wednesday morning, eight days after publishing a lengthy essay accusing the network of journalistic malpractice for conforming to a politically liberal worldview at the expense of fairness and accuracy.

News > WA Government

Local appeals judge one step closer to appointment for U.S District Court in Spokane

UPDATED: Wed., April 17, 2024

Washington Court of Appeals Judge Rebecca Pennell is a step closer to serving on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington after she was nominated for the position by President Joe Biden in March.

News > Nation/World

Ukraine says 17 dead as Russian missiles hit northern city

UPDATED: Wed., April 17, 2024

Ukraine said the death toll in a Russian missile attack on a northern city had risen to 17 as Volodymyr Zelenskiy criticized his country’s partners for failing to provide sufficient protection against such strikes.

News > Business

Tesla asks investors to approve Musk’s $56 billion pay again

UPDATED: Wed., April 17, 2024

Tesla Inc. will ask shareholders to vote again on the same $56 billion compensation package for Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk that was voided by a Delaware court early this year.

News > K-12 education

The taste of victory: North Central students head to national culinary contest

UPDATED: Wed., April 17, 2024

Four North Central High School students qualified in March to compete in the National ProStart Invitational in Baltimore. Similar to TV cooking-show pressure, they and about 400 competitors from high schools across the country will make a three-course meal in 60 minutes using only two butane burners and no running water or electricity.

News > Nation/World

Speaker Johnson moves on foreign aid, possibly triggering vote to oust him

UPDATED: Wed., April 17, 2024

Speaker Mike Johnson is moving ahead on a foreign aid plan that has roiled his conference and prompted two Republicans to push an effort to oust him from the chamber’s top job.

News > Business

Alaska Airlines flights resume after an hour of grounding Wednesday

UPDATED: Wed., April 17, 2024

Alaska Airlines flights have resumed after they were grounded for an hour Wednesday morning, the company said in a statement.

News > Business

Internet data centers are fueling drive to old power source: Coal

UPDATED: Wed., April 17, 2024

A helicopter hovers over the Gee family farm, the noisy rattle echoing inside their home in this rural part of West Virginia. It’s holding surveyors who are eyeing space for yet another power line next to the property - a line that will take electricity generated from coal plants in the state to address a drain on power driven by the world’s internet hub in Northern Virginia 35 miles away.

News > Nation/World

Philippines plans ambitious exercise with U.S. as concerns over China grow

UPDATED: Wed., April 17, 2024

The Philippines and the United States are preparing to hold their most ambitious joint military exercise yet next week as tensions between the Philippines and China escalate in the South China Sea, according to more than a dozen officials.

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