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Ada County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Tobin Bolter, 27, died after he was shot during a traffic stop Saturday night – the first in-the-line-of-duty death in the office’s history.

A little more than 20 years ago, officials in Alta, Utah, realized that as much as the town prided itself on being a place where generations of families return to vacation every year, it was losing families among the employees who make it run. Young people who had children left because there was no school.

A flotilla of ships bound for the Gaza Strip is preparing to sail from Turkey in the coming days, organizers say, on a mission aimed at breaching Israel’s naval blockade and highlighting the lack of aid reaching Palestinians in the besieged enclave.

With less than two weeks until opening day, work at the Expo ’74 site was reaching a “frantic pace.”

Some of Spokane’s favorite local gathering spots will donate a portion of their sales this week to support Volunteers of America Eastern Washington.

Donald Trump is picking up his fundraising pace even as he fights criminal charges in four cases and appeals a nearly half-billion dollar civil fraud judgment against him in New York. But his legal expenses continue to be a tremendous burden on his campaign and its allied groups.

Ten prison inmates dug into Medical Lake soil Thursday, placed ponderosa pine seedlings and packed dirt around them to secure the plantings in place.

Editor’s note: For Sexual Assault Awareness Month this April, The Spokesman-Review asked survivors to share their healing journeys. Each Sunday, we will profile a survivor and share resources in the Inland Northwest.

After a backlash, delegates returned Saturday for the final day of the state Republican Party convention in Spokane and endorsed gubernatorial hopeful Semi Bird, a day following party leadership’s attempt to to skip making an endorsement in the race altogether.

The scenery starts to change when you leave the tall hotels and tapón (traffic jam) of San Juan behind.

A fisherman who reportedly fell Friday in the Coeur d’Alene River was recovered Saturday, according to the Shoshone County Sheriff’s Office Facebook page.

The Israeli army and border police have reportedly killed at least 10 gunmen in a major military operation in the West Bank.

One man died and three others, including two children, were in critical condition after a house fire broke out early Saturday morning across the street from North Central High School.

An Israeli airstrike on Iran on Friday damaged an air defense system, according to Western and Iranian officials, in an attack calculated to deliver a message that Israel could bypass Iran's defensive systems undetected and paralyze them.

A New Jersey rabbi behind bars for hiring hitmen to kill his wife — so he could pursue an affair with a Philadelphia radio personality — was discovered dead in the prison where he’d been serving a life sentence for murder.

Privately owned train company Brightline will break ground next week on a $12 billion high-speed rail project connecting Las Vegas and Southern California.

Loren Brey, a poultry grower in Minnesota, walked onto the farm where his egg-laying turkeys nest in November to discover a handful of hens dead from the highly pathogenic avian flu. Within a week, he lost nearly half of his entire flock.

The House voted resoundingly on Saturday to approve $95 billion in foreign aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, as Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., put his job on the line to advance the long-stalled aid package by marshaling support from mainstream Republicans and Democrats.

House lawmakers escalated efforts to restrict video-sharing platform TikTok, renewing pressure on the Senate by advancing a bill Saturday that would force the company to be sold or face a national ban as part of a broader package sending aid to Israel and Ukraine.