Before pickleball, racquetball bounced to the heights of popularity in sports. The fast-paced game boomed in the 1980s and into the 1990s, but then faded from the limelight. That doesn't mean racquetball has vanished in the Spokane area, said longtime player Rich Carver. Carver expects 100 enthusiasts will join a May 17-19 racquetball tournament at the Spokane Club. He estimates about 150 people in the area play regularly.
The Spokane Housing Authority announced Thursday that it purchased land for a project that could bring more than 300 units of affordable housing to Spokane Valley.
A woman in Texas who was falsely charged with murder over a self-induced abortion in 2022 has filed a lawsuit against the local prosecutor's office and its leaders, seeking more than $1 million in damages.
After years of extreme drought and several very wet flood years, the Sierra Nevada snowpack, the source of one-third of California's water supply, is shockingly average this year: 104% of normal on Friday. And more is on the way.
Police and prosecutors in Peru carried out a surprise raid at the home of President Dina Boluarte and the presidential palace early Saturday as part of an "unlawful enrichment" investigation into news reports that she had been seen wearing Rolex watches since taking office.
Rough weather forced a United Airlines flight from Tel Aviv, Israel, to Newark, New Jersey, to make an emergency landing at an airport in Hudson Valley, New York, on Friday, the airline confirmed to the Daily News.
Pope Francis called on the faithful to rejoice and hope despite personal and global political crises at the celebration of the Easter Vigil on Holy Saturday.
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) signed a bill into law this week that nullified ordinances enacted by Memphis leaders following the 2023 police killing of Tyre Nichols, enabling the Republican-led legislature to undo the work of the Democratic-leaning city.
Crews in Baltimore on Saturday were working on pulling the first piece of wreckage out of the water after the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, a tangible sign of progress in the daunting effort to reopen the busy waterway.
Thousands of Israelis took to the streets again on Saturday to protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing religious government, as there is no sign of a letup in Israel's military campaign in Gaza almost six months in.
Michigan U.S. Rep. Tim Walberg suggested that nuclear weapons should be dropped on Gaza, which his office said was a metaphor to “support Israel’s swift elimination of Hamas.”
A 59-year-old nanny charged with killing an Airway Heights infant provided several explanations as to what led to the fatal injuries, which a doctor compared to someone being thrown from a moving vehicle.
The National WWII Museum estimates 131 World War II veterans die every day. For a new exhibit, Voices from the Front, the museum is using artificial intelligence and voice-recognition software to index the memories in a way that will allow visitors to “converse” with WWII-era Americans for decades to come.
A cargo ship sank in the Red Sea after an attack by Houthi militants, taking about 21,000 metric tons of fertilizer down with it, posing a significant environmental risk to one of the world’s busiest waterways and the home of many coral reefs.
Since Jan. 5, when a panel on a 2-month-old Alaska Airlines 737 Max 9 jet blew off in midair, ongoing problems with aircraft have taken on new resonance, raising further questions about the quality of the planes Boeing is producing.
Since leaving office in 2021, former President Donald Trump has spent more than $100 million on lawyers and other costs related to fending off various investigations, indictments and his coming criminal trials, according to a New York Times review of federal records.
