Military

U.S. forces hit 90 targets overnight mostly along Iran’s coastline with the Strait of Hormuz, stepping up a renewed bombing campaign after President Donald Trump said he thought a tentative truce agreement was “over.”

Outside the Wilderness Inn in Loon Lake, Joe Gately strolled past table after table of model airplanes that he, his two brothers and his father began collecting in the 1950s.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stonewalled a behind-the-scenes effort within the Army and on Capitol Hill to extend the career of an influential general, people familiar with the matter said, leading to that officer submitting retirement paperwork and preparing to step down.

Eighty-one years ago, an 18-year-old Stan Primmer was knocked out and blown out of his clothes after a Japanese kamikaze pilot dropped a bomb and slammed the plane into the U.S. Navy veteran’s ship off the island of Okinawa.

LOS ANGELES – The B-52 bomber is considered a marvel not only of the U.S. military but of all aviation history.

More than 150 troops at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas have been infected with influenza over the past three weeks - a major outbreak less than two months after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said American troops would no longer be required to be vaccinated against the flu.

President Donald Trump on Thursday is set to award the nation’s highest award for valor in combat to two Marine Corps veterans and a recent U.S. soldier, after years of advocacy by colleagues to upgrade the recognition that each previously received.

A United States Air Force B-52 Stratofortress crashed shortly after takeoff in California late Monday morning, June 15, military officials said. The aircraft crashed taking off from ​the Edwards Air Force Base airfield in Kern County at 11:20 a.m. PT, the base reported.

WASHINGTON — Senate Armed Services Committee Republicans, in a reversal, voted this week to oppose an NDAA provision that would broaden health care coverage for military families’ fertility treatments, a Democratic senator said Thursday. “After everything our troops sacrifice for our nation, they should never have to sacrifice their dreams of building a family,” said Sen. Tammy Duckworth, ...

A sailor is dead and another is in custody following a shooting aboard the John F. Kennedy (CVN 79) Saturday, the U.S. Navy and naval investigators confirmed.

Lawrence Stingley and the soldiers who fought beside him were the only ones who knew exactly what it was like storming Omaha Beach 82 years ago.

Every time Tammie McConkey’s flight would touch down to visit her son in the U.S. Air Force, he would greet her with a red rose.

There’s a collection of events in and around Spokane to celebrate Memorial Day weekend.

In what appears to be a carefully calibrated show of force, the United States deployed the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz and its accompanying strike group into Caribbean waters this week, a move that coincided with the unsealing of murder charges against former Cuban leader Raúl Castro on Wednesday and an intensifying pressure campaign by the Trump administration against Havana.

In the midst of international war, rampant political tension and last week’s midair collision between a pair of Navy jets at an air show near Boise, Spokane’s Fairchild Air Force Base trucks along with preparations for its own 2026 SkyFest event.

Dozens of students, veterans and locals gathered Wednesday at Spokane Falls Community College to hear the story of Lt. Col. Jack Daniels Holsclaw, a decorated World War II combat air pilot, Tuskegee airman and Spokane native.

WASHINGTON – On the National Mall, where monuments to America’s past rise high above the reflecting pool, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial stands in dramatic contrast, a black granite wall cut into the earth that bears the names of more than 58,000 Americans who lost their lives in Vietnam between 1959 and 1975.

Navy Secretary John Phelan is leaving the Trump administration “effective immediately,” officials said Wednesday evening, an abrupt exit after 13 tumultuous months at the Pentagon.

A small convoy of Army Reserve troops had to engage in maneuvers they didn't expect Wednesday when a large transport vehicle left Interstate 90 and rolled onto its top in Spokane Valley.