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A grant program, although just launched in July, has already provided $200 credits to 50,000 low-income families in Eastern Washington – and more than half of northeastern Washington counties receiving automatic approval.

Social media users around the world have called it many names – commonly, “The Magic School Bus,” sitting on the side of the road in the “middle of nowhere.”

Veeva Systems (NYSE: VEEV) provides cloud solutions for life sciences companies. Its clients include some of the largest pharmaceutical and health care companies in the world, such as Merck, Johnson & Johnson, Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly.

Once a death sentence, HIV infection is now a lifelong condition with which you can live a long, healthy life. But as life expectancy of the much stigmatized disease increases, physicians must now grapple with how to care for HIV at the same time as old age.

A registered sex offender from Montana was arrested Friday in Spokane after police say he followed a minor and fondled himself on the South Hill.

Hiking and kayaking in the daytime? Fun and invigorating. But under a full moon, those activities can be transcendent. Gazing at blue skies is pleasant – but rather ordinary. Looking up at the night sky, on the other hand, feels as though deep mysteries may be revealed.

Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, back home in Nebraska on Saturday, delivered his usual appeals to joy and freedom, along with some jabs at former President Donald Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio. But this time, he added a flex of his Nebraska roots and his knowledge of the state's culture.

A 30-year-old Coeur d’Alene man faces felony assault charges after police say he shined a laser at a Kootenai County Regional Air Support helicopter, interfering with the aircraft’s patrol Friday night.

If you go somewhere expecting an eight-day trip and end up not being able to leave for eight months, most people would consider that “stranded.”

Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip and southern Lebanon killed at least 25 civilians Saturday, according to Lebanese and Palestinian health authorities, as the United States and allies were racing to conclude delicate cease-fire negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas.

A pedestrian and dog were killed after they were struck by a driver Friday night on North Division Street. 

Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador refiled a lawsuit aimed at quashing a ballot initiative to end closed primary elections on Friday, this time in the Fourth Judicial District. The move came just days after the Idaho Supreme Court rejected a similar petition for failing to file the complaint in a lower court and because it was too early to rule on the measure’s constitutionality. The ...

A 56-year-old Spokane Valley man died in a crash Saturday morning on state Route 27 in Spokane Valley. 

Hurricane Ernesto made landfall on the western side of Bermuda early Saturday as a powerful Category 1 storm, bringing significant rain. The storm was beginning to move away from Bermuda on Saturday night but tropical storm conditions persisted.

Social media platform X is shuttering its operations in Brazil “immediately” after the country’s top judge allegedly threatened to arrest the company’s legal representative in secret for not complying with orders to shut down certain accounts, the company posted Saturday.

Thousands of Venezuelans took to the streets Saturday in protests across their country and in cities around the world, demanding that authoritarian president Nicolás Maduro recognize the results of last month’s election they say he lost.

Ukraine has destroyed a critical bridge and appears to have targeted at least one more in Russia's western Kursk region as it tries to sever Russian supply lines and consolidate its territorial gains, a dozen days into its startling cross-border offensive.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning clinicians to be on the lookout for a viral disease that is spread by small flies and some types of mosquitoes and that causes sudden fever, severe headaches and chills.