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As Ukraine’s ammunition stocks dwindle some of the country’s biggest allies are expressing growing concern that it may not be able to defend itself for much longer against Russia’s invasion. Group of Seven foreign ministers gathering on the Italian island of Capri will call for stronger support.

German authorities arrested two men suspected of spying for Russia and membership of a terror group planning acts of sabotage, in a case the interior minister called “particularly serious.”

 Five months ago, USC cited safety as a rationale for banning economics professor John Strauss, who is Jewish, from campus after student activists said they felt threatened when he approached them at a protest and said "Hamas are murderers. ... I hope they all are killed." "Our north star is protecting the safety of our community," a USC spokesperson said at the time.  

Captain Robert Graves sees strangers every day as a pilot for Southwest Airlines. There’s not always a deep relationship with the people he works with or the people he meets. It’s a few constant people he may see, but even then, it may be months until he recognizes the co-pilot or flight attendants on his flight. It’s a job that can feel alienating just by the nature of the work, he said. It sometimes feels isolating.

Planting season is upon us! The nurseries are filling up and our local garden clubs and programs are gearing up for their annual plant sales. Here are the biggest ones in the Spokane area over the next two months.

Ava Cluever, 6, spun in a slow circle, watching her blue skirt swirl.

With Expo ’74’s opening a little more than two weeks away, work was proceeding full tilt.

A yearlong trespass order has been dropped against a man who was arrested after refusing to leave a Bonner County Commissioners meeting in January, and criminal charges were dropped against another man who was similarly arrested twice.

Eight months after the fire, some companies are dropping clients, telling others they won’t be renewed or, even in cases of homeowners who avoided damage, raising monthly rates to impossible levels.

Washington State University junior Olivia Bustillos walked onto the Pullman campus Saturday morning to mourn two of her family members: Peanut and Snowball.

During several years of efforts to refine policing tactics — ranging from mandating body-worn cameras to limiting or banning excessive use of force — many states and law enforcement agencies nationwide imposed more restrictive car chase policies to protect civilians and officers.

A sunlight-propelled satellite floating though space on huge metallic sails sounds like an idea straight from science fiction. But scientists at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia have spent five years making the technology a reality and plan to launch a test mission as soon as April 23.  

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

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.

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

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. ...

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.

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.