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Support staff at MultiCare Deaconess and Valley hospitals are prepared to strike as soon as next month should their contract demands not be met.

Spokane County deputy prosecutors are juggling more than 100 cases at any given time while receiving far less compensation than other prosecutors in the state.

A 72-year-old Spokane man died in a head-on crash involving a dump truck and a van Wednesday in southern Whitman County.

Two days before writing this column, I saved an Ohio homeowner $30,000. He had stumbled across my website, and he saw that I consult with readers on the phone. Water was ponding against his house foundation, and he was considering signing a contract with a waterproofing company for the above amount.

Spokane Mayor Lisa Brown has publicly endorsed former diplomat Carmela Conroy to represent Eastern Washington in Congress.

Angela Chao, the CEO of a shipping company and part of a prominent family in U.S. politics, was legally intoxicated when she drove into a pond in Texas and died last month, according to a police report released Wednesday, which called the episode an "unfortunate accident."

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel assailed Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York on Wednesday in a closed-door speech to Senate Republicans, days after the Democratic majority leader branded him an impediment to peace in the Middle East and called for an election to replace him after the war winds down.

Thrive International is in the process of purchasing a piece of vacant land in northeast Spokane from the Spokane Public Library with plans to develop at least 45 units of affordable housing by 2025. 

A Spokane man will spend eight years in prison for his role in a meth-induced fatal crash in 2023.

Jurors, attorneys, defendants and witnesses filed into a Spokane County Courtroom Wednesday morning with one key difference from the usual courthouse crowd: They were all in the third grade.

A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced two former Mississippi law enforcement officers to 17 1/2 and 40 years in prison, respectively, for their roles in a brutal, racist assault on two Black men last year.

Darren Cromeenes, vice principal at Holmes Elementary, has been getting his haircuts at the Man Shop for years. Now, dozens of his students have gotten Man Shop cuts as well.

Mar. 20—Bird song is once again starting to fill the Washington air as temperatures creep up and migratory birds return to the Evergreen State. One type of hummingbird calls Washington state home year-round, but other varieties return each spring. Hummingbirds are a favorite for many bird watchers, and bird feeders are the best way to see them. If you're looking to set up your own hummingbird ...

A five-time convicted felon faces charges of second-degree murder for a killing at Eastern State Hospital in 2022 and first-degree assault for an unprovoked downtown Spokane attack that happened in 2021.