Latest from The Spokesman-Review

• House approves $9.7 billion in Sandy flood aid

  January 4, 2013 in Nation/World WASHINGTON — More than two months after Superstorm Sandy struck, the House today overwhelmingly approved $9.7 billion to pay flood insurance claims for the many home and business owners flooded … 16

• Region’s residents help with Hurricane Sandy aid

  December 13, 2012 in Washington Voices on Page S1 When Hurricane Sandy devastated the East Coast on Oct. 29, the American Red Cross sprang into action. Volunteers from across the U.S. converged on storm-damaged cities. Thirty-two of those volunteers … 2

• New York getting Spokane-area help

  November 5, 2012 Efforts to restore power in the storm-ravaged New York region are getting a Spokane-area boost. Several utility crews from the Bonneville Power Administration have been sent to Long Island, N.Y. …

• National votes tallied locally

  November 2, 2012 in City on Page A1 With white walls and desks full of computers, the nondescript room on the fifth floor of the Lincoln Building in downtown Spokane doesn’t particularly reflect its importance. It’s only used … 2

• Guard evacuates people, takes in food to NJ city

  October 31, 2012 in Nation/World HOBOKEN, N.J. — National Guard troops delivered food and supplies to residents in this heavily flooded city across from Manhattan today as officials sent out a plea for boats, generators … 1

• Airports and stock exchange reopen; NJ devastated

  October 31, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK — Two major airports reopened and the floor of the New York Stock Exchange came back to life today, while across the river in New Jersey, National Guardsmen …

• Sandy leaves death, damp and darkness in wake

  October 30, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK — As superstorm Sandy marched slowly inland, millions along the East Coast awoke this morning without power or mass transit, with huge swaths of the nation’s largest city … 5

• Spokane-area man runs storm shelter operations in New York City

  October 30, 2012 in City on Page A1 Red Cross relief efforts in New York are being organized by an Eastern Washington retiree pressed into service because of his nearly four decades of disaster management experience. Glenn Lockwood, … 1

• Sandy plunges NYC into darkness

  October 29, 2012 in Nation/World, News Superstorm Sandy slammed into the New Jersey coastline with 80 mph winds Monday night and hurled an unprecedented 13-foot surge of seawater at New York City, flooding its tunnels, subway … 1

• Elk, Wash., man directing Hurricane Sandy relief efforts in New York

  October 29, 2012 Red Cross relief efforts in New York are being organized by an Eastern Washington retiree pressed into service because of his nearly four decades of disaster management experience.

• Obama on storm: If they say evacuate, do it now

  October 29, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama delivered a sober warning to millions in the path of Hurricane Sandy today, declaring that even though food, water and generators have been moved into …

• A state-by-state look at the East Coast superstorm

  October 29, 2012 in Nation/World Hurricane Sandy is churning off the East Coast and is expected to join up with two other weather systems to create a huge and problematic storm affecting 50 million people. …

• Sandy gains power and aims for Northeast

  October 29, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK — Gaining strength and threatening 50 million people, Hurricane Sandy chugged north today, raking ghost-town cities along the Northeast corridor with rain and wind gusts. Subways and schools … 36

• East Coast residents take this one seriously

  October 27, 2012 in Nation/World SHIP BOTTOM, N.J. — Forget distinctions like tropical storm or hurricane. Don’t get fixated on a particular track. Wherever it hits, the rare behemoth storm inexorably gathering in the eastern …

• Spokane weather service launching balloons to help predict Hurricane Sandy

  October 26, 2012 Meteorologists on Spokane’s West Plains are taking part in a nationwide effort to better predict the strength and location of a massive storm approaching the East Coast. 4

• Sandy pounds Bahamas after killing 29 in Caribbean

  October 26, 2012 in Nation/World NASSAU, Bahamas — Hurricane Sandy raged through the Bahamas early this morning after leaving 29 people dead across the Caribbean, following a path that could see it blend with a …