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The United Auto Workers’ organizing victory at Volkswagen AG's plant in Tennessee is a critical early momentum-builder as the union turns to more auto and battery plants across the South, experts say, but further successes aren't a foregone conclusion. 

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will close out oral arguments for the term this week with two high-profile cases: whether federal law guarantees access to abortion in emergency rooms and whether former President Donald Trump is immune to federal criminal charges. The cases are emblematic of a term in which the conservative-controlled court is poised to broaden its impact on American law and ...

The Spokane County sergeant under investigation for the violent arrest of a man at Terrace View Park last summer used “excessive, objectively unreasonable” force, a use of force expert found.

SAGLE, Idaho – The Idaho Transportation Department is exploring an expansion of U.S. Highway 95 that could bypass the unincorporated town of Sagle south of Sandpoint.

PULLMAN – Weeds had overrun the 60-foot hill behind Jacob Leachman’s house. Unsure what to do, Leachman reached out to a local nonprofit that plants “pocket prairies” in backyards and empty fields.

Spokane Chronicle business writer Frank Bartel wrote in January of 1973 that visitors to Expo ’74 “will get a very close look at the seamier side of Spokane.”

One persistent worry of Expo ’74’s organizers – that the gasoline shortage would curtail tourism – was put to rest.

The strike at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center is scheduled to begin Monday. Starting at 2 p.m. the hospital’s 500 technical workers are expected to walk out and begin picketing their employer.

When David “Robbie” Robinson pinned jump wings to the uniform of his grandson, Daniel Robinson, on March 29 at Fort Moore (formerly Fort Benning) Georgia, it was a full-circle moment.

On a nice spring day at the end of May 2020, 11-year-old Ruby Reynolds and her dad, Justin, were fossil-hunting on Blue Anchor Beach in Somerset, England, when they discovered a fragment of a titanic sea beast.

A woman and her two children, victims of a deadly house fire in the Emerson Garfield neighborhood early Saturday morning, remain hospitalized and on life support, a family member told KHQ Sunday.

A Post Falls man who shot and injured two people last fall at a Coeur d’Alene party was sentenced Thursday to at least seven years in prison.

Just over a year since officer Vásquez Lasso’s killing, the Chicago Police Department is mourning officer Luis Huesca’s death after he was shot and killed while heading home from his shift early Sunday morning, two days shy of his 31st birthday.

An 8-year-old girl and her 5-year-old brother were killed when a suspected drunk driver plowed into a child’s birthday party at a Michigan boat club Saturday, in a devastating crash that injured 15 others.

The cost of a proposed NASA mission to gather rocks on Mars and return them to Earth is spiraling upward and slipping further into the future. So on Monday, space agency officials asked for ideas on simplifying the mission and trimming its price tag.

More than a dozen people were injured when a four-car tram crashed at Universal Studios Hollywood on Saturday night, authorities said. The last car of the tram struck a rail when it was traveling down a hill near a parking structure.

Following passage in the House of a major military aid package for Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday that his country will only be able to repel an anticipated Russian offensive if the U.S. weapons arrive quickly.

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.