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Social Security Commissioner Martin O’Malley has been touring the nation to speak with city and state leaders about the program’s future along with what he and the agency can do to best serve its 70 million-plus recipients.

Stevens County will receive state money to build something it doesn’t have: a facility to provide support to people with behavioral health problems.

For nearly a year after she seemingly vanished from a Sacramento-area hospital, Jessie Peterson's family mounted a frantic search — distributing posters of her and calling any hospital and police department they could think of, but to no avail. But the 31-year-old wasn't missing. She had never left the hospital alive.

A federal lawsuit in Texas against Planned Parenthood has a web of ties to conservative activist Leonard Leo, whose decades-long effort to steer the U.S. court system to the right overturned Roe v. Wade, yielding the biggest rollback of reproductive health access in half a century.

When pandemic-era tenant protections expired, rents immediately soared, and eviction filings surged last year more than 50% over pre-pandemic levels in some U.S. cities.

MOSCOW, Idaho – Several emotions poured through Kristi and Steve Goncalves on Wednesday as they walked through the Vandal Healing Garden and Memorial that honors their slain daughter and all the other Vandals who lost their lives while enrolled at the university.

As energy companies continue to eye large wind farms in Eastern Washington, Spokane County commissioners are setting the terms for what they’ll look like within the county’s borders.

Former Frontier Behavioral Health CEO Jeff Thomas built a legacy as a key architect of the region's shift to integrated mental health care, a practice that considers both physical and mental wellbeing. A year after his death from respiratory complications, both a local university scholarship and a Frontier outpatient site are being named for him.

Much of Spokane’s South Hill lost power late Wednesday.

CHICAGO – Delegates at the Democratic National Convention were fired up on Wednesday as Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, the party’s vice presidential nominee, took the stage to rally the party faithful and make a pitch to the voters who will decide the election.

Cheney Public Schools and the teacher’s union have yet to come to a tentative agreement on a new contract, bringing the union’s vote to strike on the first day of school if an agreement is not met.

Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota offered himself as a bridge to disillusioned Americans who regard the Democratic Party as a bastion of coastal elitism, in a high-stakes address formally accepting the vice-presidential nomination Wednesday night.

For a brief moment at a single gas station in Spokane, gas was cheaper than in Idaho – clear evidence that election season has arrived in what is expected to be a contentious fight over four initiatives that supporters say will save Washingtonians major money and opponents argue will take billions from important programs.

Denver prosecutors will drop all charges against a Black man accused of killing two white brothers in a road-rage incident on Interstate 25 last year.

Inflation is just about dead – unless the next president brings it back to life.

In 2009, hydroelectricity made up 80% of the electricity generated in Idaho. Last year, that number was 49%, according to reports from the Idaho Office for Energy and Mineral Resources.

Saving isn’t always easy, but it pays off over time. It’s especially useful to have a solid savings foundation in place to protect yourself against economic uncertainty.