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Bob Graham, a consensus-building moderate Democrat who as a two-term Florida governor and a three-term U.S. senator became one of the most popular politicians in the state’s history and then one of the Senate’s most ardent opponents of the Iraq War, died April 16 at the age of 87.

For the families of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, it has been nearly three decades of court fights, painstaking forensic accounting, detective work and, ultimately, frustration. The goal: Make O.J. Simpson pay.

Dubai flights have been severely disrupted and cars were left stranded on flooded roads after record rainfall over the past day brought the city to a standstill.

Market sentiment recovered Wednesday, lifted by a slate of positive earnings from some of Europe’s biggest companies that may signal fresh impetus for a stock rally showing signs of fatigue.

Demand was high for tickets and hotel rooms during May, Expo ’74’s opening month.

From nearly anywhere in Spokane, the towering campus of Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center is visible.

Regina Barrett, a 69-year-old retiree who lives in this small North Carolina city southeast of Charlotte, has not been happy with her tap water for a while. “Our water has been cloudy and bubbly and looks milky,” said Barrett, who blames fluoride, a mineral that communities across the nation have for decades added to the water supply to help prevent cavities and improve dental health.

When Scott Hoen ran to be Carson City, Nevada’s chief election official two years ago, he campaigned on “election integrity,” promising to make sure voter registration lists were accurate. In the chaotic aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, he believed that too many of his fellow Republicans were convinced that there was widespread voter fraud.

 America is facing a looming retirement crisis, according to a recent Business Insider report. Many older adults are financially vulnerable and live off less than $30,000 a year.  

State Rep. Jacquelyn Maycumber has sent a cease and desist letter calling for Loren Culp, a deputy and former Republican gubernatorial and congressional candidate, to retract a “deepfake” social media post the Republican representative alleges was meant to tarnish her campaign to represent Eastern Washington in Congress.

House Speaker Mike Johnson’s job is in serious jeopardy as two far-right lawmakers are threatening to oust him after the embattled Republican leader proposed a complex plan intended to fund key foreign allies during wartime.

The Washington State Department of Ecology declared a drought emergency Tuesday, citing this year’s low snowpack and dry forecasts.

A 27-year-old woman is accused of hitting and killing a 70-year-old man with his truck he used to pick up the woman last week near the Spokane International Airport, according to the Spokane Police Department.

The Supreme Court appeared deeply divided Tuesday over whether prosecutors improperly stretched federal law to charge hundreds of participants in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, a decision that will impact those rioters and, potentially, Donald Trump’s election interference trial in D.C.

The Lewis and Clark Bridge has towered above the Columbia River for nearly a century, its rugged half-mile truss serving as a gateway for logging trucks and beach vacationers crossing between Washington and Oregon.

Amid increased scrutiny on PFAS levels in city drinking water, Spokane is joining a lawsuit against the companies that manufacture the dangerous chemical.

SUGARLOAF KEY, Fla. – Fishing guides in the Florida Keys began reporting unusual sightings to Ross Boucek in the fall. Small bait fish, especially at night, would start spinning in tight circles in the water, seemingly in distress.

Some of Haiti’s best-known media personalities and journalists appealed for help Tuesday amid ongoing attacks by armed gangs that have shut down the international airport, paralyzed the capital and increasingly poses risks for those trying to cover the news. In a joint appeal, 90 Haiti journalists and the group Reporters Without Borders called on the international community and the country’s ...