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The U.S. is betting the transition to cleaner energy combined with massive infrastructure investments will reverse a persistent decline in family farms, creating new revenue opportunities for growers while boosting their ability to compete overseas.

The Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge is set to come in softer than another report this week on consumer prices that rocked financial markets.

It’s perhaps the only hot-button issue on which Donald Trump plays defense. It has forced even MAGA acolyte Kari Lake to ask Democrats for help. And just last month, it lost the Republicans a state seat in otherwise ruby-red Alabama. Such is the power of the politics around abortion.

The next time you need to have your iPhone fixed, you may not have to pay as much to get it working just the way it used to.

For the last couple of summers, my neighbor and I have been dealing with a pocket gopher invasion that is getting closer to our joint fruit orchard. Their familiar mounds kept appearing around the tree roots. Big mounds.

Jerry Smith missed Expo ’74 by four years.

A fundraising drive by the Northwest Indian Enterprises came up short for the tribal exhibit at Expo ’74.

Many older adults rely on opioid pain medications to help relieve short-term pain or for persistent chronic pain. But seniors might not be the first group that pops into your head when you think about overdose or dependence on opioid drugs. Realistically, they have just as much risk (and sometimes more) of dependence, substance use disorder and overdose as any other person prescribed opioid pain medication.

Finch Elementary School students called 911 for a fire, climbed out a window and stopped, dropped and rolled Wednesday afternoon.

Thirteen members of a Hasidic Jewish community were arraigned Wednesday on charges stemming from a January incident in which a wall inside a famous Brooklyn synagogue was damaged by young men wielding a hammer and crowbar -- setting off a melee that was captured on video.

A man is on the loose after police say he robbed a credit union Wednesday in East Central Spokane.

It is a truth almost universally acknowledged that a new Spokane mayor will try to streamline the city’s permitting process.

A decision by Arizona's highest court upholding an 1864 ban on nearly all abortions created chaos and confusion across the state Wednesday. As abortion providers were flooded with phone calls from frantic patients, Republican lawmakers at the state Capitol blocked efforts to undo the ban.

Over a period of less than three months this year, the federal immigrant detention center in Tacoma has seen at least six, possibly seven, suicide attempts, according to audio and records of 911 calls.

When it came to wildfires, 2021 was an increasingly common kind of year in Montana: Flames consumed 747,000 acres, an area nearly the size of Long Island.

Public water systems across the country will be required to test for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances under new federal regulations announced Wednesday.

House Republicans on Wednesday blocked legislation to extend an expiring warrantless surveillance law that national security officials call crucial to gathering intelligence and fighting terrorism, dealing Speaker Mike Johnson a stinging defeat after former President Donald Trump urged lawmakers to kill the bill.