Government

Independence Day will look a little different this year in Medical Lake, which has long been one of few areas in the county with more relaxed rules regarding fireworks.

The City Council has until early August to approve a measure for the November ballot but likely only effectively has until July 22, the last council meeting scheduled before the body takes two weeks off.

Idaho residents should be prepared for some new take laws taking effect Monday. A proposed bill must pass through the Idaho House and Senate before being signed into law by Gov. Brad Little, but unless it contains an emergency clause or specific date of enactment, it comes into effect at the beginning of July. State legislators this year approved a slew of new laws to be implemented Monday, ...

Dalles Police Chief Tom Worthy, Tucson Assistant Police Chief Kevin Hall, Yakima Police Chief Matthew Murray and Memphis Police Col. Kathleen Lanier addressed department budget issues and policing philosophy as Mayor Lisa Brown looks for a permanent chief. That person will enter Spokane with a looming budget deficit and a fentanyl crisis, both problems that local leaders have differing opinions on how to solve.

The sounds of hammers pounding, nail guns firing and cautionary beeps from heavy machinery seems to fill the rolling hills near Interstate 90’s exit 272 on the West Plains.

Forty-eight years ago, when Rakesh Mohan moved from India to the United States, he sought out to be a chemist.

SANDPOINT – The ultrasound in February that found a mass growing in her uterus and abnormally thick uterine lining brought Jonell Anderson more than anxiety over diagnosis and treatment.

Idaho physicians likely will be allowed to perform emergency abortions, according to a document briefly posted on the U.S. Supreme Court’s website Wednesday.

New hires at the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office will continue to be offered signing bonuses of up to $25,000 as the agency seeks to fill roughly 35 vacant positions.

As the Spokane City Council works with the mayoral administration to come up with a balanced, now biennial budget that the council has sole responsibility to approve, the city’s legislative body has hired a new budget director to replace the one hired away earlier this year by incoming Mayor Lisa Brown.

The city of Spokane has agreed to pay a local homeowner nearly $60,000 six months after a broken water main flooded the basement of his South Hill home.

For the first time in seven years, Idaho has a new National Guard commanding general.

Pickleball players don’t have to use a tennis court to play Washington’s official sport in Corbin Park after two designated pickleball courts opened following a ribbon cutting ceremony on Wednesday.

On the third and final day of the convention, delegates filed into a big event room at the Meydenbauer Center and spent roughly eight hours going through party business. In that time, the group voted on a handful of resolutions. The group narrowly rejected two resolutions stating that nuclear energy is “not the solution to climate change,” and that the state should not use funding for clean energy to support construction or expansion of small modular nuclear reactors.

Spokane is moving to a two-year budget cycle, emulating the state Legislature, after a 6-1 vote Monday by the Spokane City Council.

A fee tacked onto the delivery of many retail and online purchases could generate millions of dollars a year for maintaining city and county roads in Washington.