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In 1972, citizens mounted an initiative to crack open the secrecy surrounding the people’s business.

Now that fears of a gasoline shortage had eased, a different kind of shortage was making travel agents nervous about Expo ’74.

WASHINGTON – If it wasn’t clear enough already, Tuesday’s primaries in Washington and three other states made it official: Joe Biden and Donald Trump have enough delegates to clinch their parties’ nominations for president.

CHEWELAH, Wash. – The Chewelah School District and a local health care provider want to create a training center that would host internships for rural high school students across northeast Washington.

In 1948, Bouten Construction landed its first commercial contract expanding the original Sacred Heart Hospital. The company has spent the past 80 years building projects around Spokane that matter. 

A total solar eclipse can be experienced in the "Flower City" with a river running through it. Rochester is the place to be for the event, which won't happen again until 2044.

For more than a century, Washington’s key tools of citizen control over their government – the initiative and the referendum – were a real bargain. Now, maybe less so.

Just east of the Idaho state border, a new Circle K convenience store has opened that could entice Washington drivers with Idaho gas prices. 

The filing period for all Idaho candidates running for office this year closed Friday.

“Spokane Velocity” chants, smoke shooting into the air after home goals and fans donned in black and light blue shirts and scarves.

Danny Rodriguez and his 10-year-old pug, Logan, sported green leprechaun top hats as they strolled Saturday through downtown Spokane.

Ukrainians in territories occupied by the Russian military are being forced to vote in the Russian presidential election under the watch of heavily armed, masked soldiers who are accompanying election officials going from house to house, knocking on doors as they seek to compel participation.

The United Nations human rights office has documented more than two dozen attacks on Gaza Strip civilians waiting for desperately needed aid since January, with hunger spreading as a result of Israel's near complete siege, preventing most food and water from entering the tiny enclave.

Investigators are looking into why a Boeing plane was missing an external panel after a San Francisco to Oregon flight, officials said. The company was already facing heightened scrutiny from travelers and regulators over incidents involving its aircraft.

Gathered in a Ukrainian farmhouse, soldiers checked their kits: rifles, machine guns, grenade launchers, spare batteries for radios, red and white flashlights, all that would be needed for a stealthy and daring night assault across the border into Russia.

A 94-year-old man has been arrested and charged in a hit-and-run crash that killed a first-grade dual language teacher in Englewood, New Jersey, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said Friday night.

An occasionally explosive yet fickle comet with a devilish nickname is visible in the evening sky for the first time in 71 years. Currently, it can only be seen with a telescope or binoculars, but might soon be spotted with the naked eye, and there’s even a chance it could be seen during next month’s total solar eclipse.

In declining to endorse Donald Trump for president, former Vice President Mike Pence made a major statement that undercut other Trump-skeptical Republicans who have suggested through their actions that there is no alternative.

Scientists have discovered fossilized evidence of the world’s earliest known forest atop remote cliffs in England, researchers announced late last month - offering a glimpse of how plants grew hundreds of millions of years ago.