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Good news arrived on the transportation front: Amtrak announced that it would add an extra daily train between Seattle and Spokane, named the “Expo ’74.”

The Spokane Valley City Council is poised to vote Tuesday on a number of changes to its governance manual in an effort to cut down on the many contentious council meetings since the start of the new year.

Spokane Valley is re-evaluating its contract with the Spokane County Regional Animal Protection Service after several community members raised concerns at city council meetings last month.

Pedophilia. Child sex trafficking. Increased child molestation. Arguments in favor of an Idaho bill to restrict obscene library material to children seemed familiar to those following conspiracy theories. Several supporters of a bill to allow lawsuits against libraries in public hearings have cited unfounded concerns about sex traffickers who “condition” children through books or the ...

WASHINGTON – More than 1 million Washington state taxpayers are eligible to file their federal taxes for free through a new pilot program launching Tuesday, the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service announced.

By the close of Washington's legislative session last week, state lawmakers had added more funding to help reduce health care insurance costs for undocumented immigrants, as the state also prepares to expand Apple Health, its free or low-cost health insurance, to the same population in July.

Comcast Xfinity customers are experiencing faster internet speeds as of last week at no extra charge as the Philadelphia-based telecom giant rolled out an automatic upgrade. 

Basketball legend John Stockton has taken his disdain for COVID-19 restrictions to a federal courtroom, initiating a lawsuit with other plaintiffs against the Washington State Office of the Attorney General over pandemic rules that restrict doctors from speaking against “the mainstream Covid narrative.”

Two people were injured during a shooting over the weekend in Boundary County over the access of a road.

Wall Street traders found little encouragement to keep pushing the stock market higher at the start of a week that will bring the last inflation figures before the next Federal Reserve decision.

A woman facing eight charges from a DUI crash on Saturday spit on nurses at Deaconess Hospital and attempted to bite them, court records say.

President Joe Biden unveiled a $7.3 trillion budget blueprint Monday that amounts to an election-year pledge to lower costs for struggling families while reining in federal deficits and protecting cherished entitlement programs.

Vice President Kamala Harris will travel to South Florida next week to visit Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School to continue to raise awareness about gun safety policies.

 Catherine, the Princess of Wales, said she altered an official photo and expressed her “apologies for any confusion” that may have been caused after it was retracted by global news agencies over concerns it had been doctored.

 US Senator Robert Menendez pleaded not guilty Monday to expanded bribery charges that accuse him of accepting gold bars, cash and a Mercedes Benz in exchange for helping three businessmen.

As Haiti’s armed gangs, already in control of some of the country’s strategic assets, threaten to overtake the National Palace to install their own president, Caribbean leaders prepare to meet in Jamaica on Monday for a one-day emergency session on the escalating crisis.