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Shawn Robson, a noncommissioned officer in charge of the base's Combat Arms Training Management section, was sentenced to 18 months of probation. He pleaded guilty to possession of stolen ammunition in March.

WASHINGTON – The Department of Veterans Affairs “will spare no expense” to maintain staff and services at VA hospitals in Spokane and Walla Walla, an official told Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers after the Spokane Republican raised concerns about budget problems tied to a computer system being tested in the Inland Northwest.

Seventy-five years ago Tuesday — June 26, 1948 — the Soviet Union halted freight and passenger traffic from the U.S., British and French-controlled sectors of post-war Germany into Berlin.

The parents of Sgt. 1st Class Ronald Conley Jr. want to know how many days their son lay dead on his bathroom floor from fentanyl poisoning without the Army noticing. Kue Vue's brother questions how the straight-laced sergeant turned to drugs. Spec. Ari McGuire's parents wonder why he wasn't immediately sent to treatment when he suffered withdrawal symptoms in a training exercise.

U.S. military officials are so concerned about the quality of generic drugs that the Department of Defense is devising a program to test the safety of widely used medicines. 

About 400 troopers from the Fourth infantry departed from Fort George Wright, singing, “There’s a Long, Long, Trail a’Winding.”

WASHINGTON – After visiting Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center at the end of May, the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Northwest regional director assured staff that the Spokane hospital won’t cut its workforce as a result of a multimillion-dollar budget deficit.

Kevin Kline grew up hearing stories about his great-uncle, Robert Kline, a 22-year-old sailor who perished aboard the USS Arizona when it was destroyed by Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. He collected photos of him in his Navy uniform and framed the Feb. 6, 1942, front page of the local newspaper in western New York that blared "Olean Boy Dies On Arizona" in a banner headline. He thought occasionally about his great-uncle's final terrifying moments.

A highly anticipated defense forum in Singapore kicked off with a friendly handshake between Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin and Chinese Defense Minister Li Shangfu.

Tzena Scarborough has a passion for helping women veterans.

Memorial Day is a time to honor and remember those who have fallen in the line of service, and there are plenty of ways to get involved in Spokane over the weekend.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – To mark Memorial Day, the Department of Veterans Affairs has expanded an online directory honoring military veterans, adding profiles for those interred at Arlington National Cemetery and 26 other cemeteries managed by the Defense Department.

WASHINGTON – The secretary of veterans affairs on Wednesday pledged to look into reports that Spokane’s VA medical center could be forced to cut staff due to a budget deficit caused largely by a flawed computer system, but he stopped short of pledging not to reduce the hospital’s workforce.

HIROSHIMA, Japan - President Biden unveiled a $375 million military assistance package for Ukraine at the Group of Seven summit on Sunday, the latest pledge from Washington of aid that totals $37 billion since Russia's war began. 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – A half-dozen veterans gathered with their supporters outside the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday before setting out on a cross-country bicycle trip that will take them through the Inland Northwest and end at the Pacific on the Olympic Peninsula.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – A projected $35 million budget deficit at Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center caused largely by the use of a flawed computer system is forcing the Spokane hospital to reduce its staff, according to an internal email, despite the ongoing effects of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ decision to test the system there.

The Air Force formally opened a multibillion-dollar contest to replace the F-22 Raptor fighter jet that's likely to draw competing bids by U.S. aerospace giants Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Northrop Grumman.

Dr. Robert Haley still has questions. “You’re always just trying to relieve this frustration that you don’t know the answer,” Haley said. The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center researcher is among those who have studied an illness afflicting thousands of Gulf War veterans since the mid 1990s.