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Spokane Valley completed the first phase of renovations to Balfour Park this summer and marked the occasion Thursday with assistance from an area 9-year-old and an MLS Cup champion.

A New Hampshire woman suffered third-degree burns at Yellowstone National Park this week after accidentally breaking the crust of a thermal pool and plunging her leg into the scalding hot water, according to the National Park Service.

Earth is about to get a new neighbor in the form of an asteroid. But this one won't be making an impact. Instead, it'll be what space enthusiasts have dubbed a mini-moon, and it will stick around to orbit our planet for roughly two months beginning Sept. 29.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said the Federal Reserve’s decision to lower its benchmark interest rate by a half percentage point was a “political move” and that a smaller cut would have been preferable.

Former President Donald Trump, speaking Thursday at a campaign event centered on denouncing antisemitism in America, said "if I don't win this election," that "the Jewish people would have a lot to do with a loss."

A bell rang 28 times Thursday, once for each of the unclaimed veterans who were being interred at Washington State Veterans Cemetery outside Medical Lake.

A 35-year-old man was attacked by a bear while hiking on a popular trail in Glacier National Park in Montana on Thursday morning, the National Park Service said.

An Eastern Kentucky sheriff was charged on Thursday with shooting and killing a district judge in the judge’s courthouse chambers in Whitesburg, according to Kentucky State Police.

SEATTLE – About 300 parents and students wore red and chanted, “Save our schools!” outside Seattle Public Schools headquarters Wednesday, marking the first mass protest against planned school closures that could reshape attendance boundaries across the city.

Acting Secret Service director Ronald L. Rowe Jr. is urging Congress to heavily invest in the protective agency after two apparent assassination attempts against former president Donald Trump, saying the service must confront its shortcomings and better position itself to handle a dangerous “new reality.”

A Spokane police officer put a “Let’s Go Brandon” sticker on his police car last year, drawing attention from members of the community and law enforcement, and leading to his firing and the reprimand of fellow officers.

In her tough re-election fight for her southwest Washington U.S. House seat, Democratic Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez often touts her willingness to work with Republicans on policy.

It was going to be tight, Mark Ceccarelli thought, but he would clear the trees coming closer and closer to his floatplane every passing second. With mechanic Mike Beckett seated behind him, Ceccarelli had just aborted a landing on Lake Steilacoom after an instrument alert indicated a potential problem.

The man who stabbed Crystal Olsen, beat another woman on a downtown Spokane sidewalk and murdered a woman 12 years ago along the Spokane River will continue to “brutally attack and murder women” when he’s released from prison, Olsen said in court Thursday.

Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris told a crowd in suburban Detroit Thursday that people are finding the American dream "far more elusive than it's been" and the country needs to "deal with that."

On Thursday, Boise Police Chief Ron Winegar celebrated his retirement — again. Winegar served the department from 1993 to 2021. He came out of retirement in 2022 at the request of Mayor Lauren McLean after a turbulent two years at the department, when nine officers brought forward allegations against then-Chief Ryan Lee. “I was frankly surprised and certainly honored to receive a call and ask ...

An international team of scientists published a peer-reviewed paper Thursday saying genetic evidence indicates the coronavirus pandemic most likely originated with a natural spillover from an animal or animals sold in a market in Wuhan, China, where many of the first human cases of covid-19 were identified.

Chad. Vietnam. Austria. The American South. In very disparate regions of the world, extreme rainfall in recent weeks has killed thousands of people, submerged entire towns, set off landslides and left millions without power.

About $25 million of construction financing has been secured for the development of Saltese Creek, a 192-unit multifamily project being built just south of the intersection of Tschirley Road and 6th Ave in Spokane Valley.