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Bryan Kohberger attorneys want death penalty off the table

Hundreds lose out on $200 energy credit after Spokane Valley utility rejects state program

Chewelah to upgrade water infrastructure for the first time in 50 years; new well will eliminate manganese
Spokane Valley Councilman Al Merkel found 'likely in violation' of Public Records Act
Spokane mayor announces cost saving measures, less grim budget outlook

Chad White to close Zona Blanca, citing downtown crime

U.S. jobs report shows hiring has shifted into lower gear

Southern California fire explodes in size, forcing mountain town to evacuate

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Edmundo González, likely winner of Venezuela election, flees to Spain

Updated 23 minutes ago

WA Cares is a small lifeline to those workers struggling to pay for long-term care. Voters this fall will decide whether you can opt out

‘It was such an iconic place’: Community mourns loss of Wolf Lodge Steakhouse

State Sen. Mark Schoesler arrested on suspicion of DUI

Longtime councilman Woody McEvers sworn in as CdA mayor

West Valley School District sends $12 million construction levy to November ballots after February countywide bond failure

Coeur d’Alene rezones NIC campus to protect educational use

WA Cares is a small lifeline to those workers struggling to pay for long-term care. Voters this fall will decide whether you can opt out

Sea-Tac Airport continues recovery from cyberattack during busy weekend

Cool critters: Can you dig it? Badgers live here, but prefer life off the grid

Selling America: The Army’s fight to find recruits in a mistrustful, divided nation

One last hot summer weekend expected in Spokane before more seasonal temperatures set in

What’s so great about Spokane, anyway? Transplants share their favorite things about Spokane.

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50 years ago in Expo history: Before the miracle on ice, there was the U.S.-Soviet basketball game at the fair

Newport’s Sravasti Abbey to feature online Buddhist scholars series

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News > Nation/World

Boeing reaches tentative contract agreement with machinists union

UPDATED: Sun., Sept. 8, 2024

Boeing reached a tentative agreement early Sunday with its machinists union, a deal that could help it avoid a costly and damaging strike as it seeks to recover from a series of crises.

News > Nation/World

Manhunt underway in Kentucky after highway shooting that wounded five

UPDATED: Sun., Sept. 8, 2024

Authorities on Sunday pressed their search in a remote wooded area of Kentucky for a man wanted in a shooting on an interstate that left five people seriously wounded and nine vehicles riddled with gunfire.

News > Nation/World

Trump pledges to jail opponents, baselessly suggests election will be stolen from him

UPDATED: Sun., Sept. 8, 2024

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump threatened to jail people “involved in unscrupulous behavior” related to voting in the 2024 election, suggesting without evidence that the election could be stolen from him - and prompting widespread condemnation such rhetoric could provoke violence.

News > Nation/World

Southern California fire explodes in size, forcing mountain town to evacuate

UPDATED: Sun., Sept. 8, 2024

A quick-moving blaze in Southern California exploded in size this weekend, consuming more than 17,000 acres as of early Sunday and forcing evacuations amid a searing heat wave in the region.

News > Nation/World

Trump cashes in during final weeks of his presidential campaign

UPDATED: Sun., Sept. 8, 2024

Donald Trump has closely linked his election with personal for-profit enterprises, selling a staggering array of merchandise that includes signed Bibles where he receives a royalty for hawking them, pricey sneakers, gold necklaces, cryptocurrency cards, books, licensing fees on overseas properties and more.

News > Nation/World

Edmundo González, likely winner of Venezuela election, flees to Spain

UPDATED: Sun., Sept. 8, 2024

Edmundo González, the Venezuelan opposition candidate for president and likely winner of the July 28 election, fled the South American nation on Saturday and received asylum in Spain under threat of imminent arrest by his country’s authoritarian government.

News > Nation/World

Russia throttles YouTube, popular with kids, celebrities and dissidents

UPDATED: Sun., Sept. 8, 2024

Russians are losing access to YouTube, the last major Western social platform freely available in the country, cutting them off from information independent from the Kremlin and alarming internet freedom advocates, journalists and opposition activists.

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‘It definitely beats on a guy’: 20-year-old Montana native follows in father’s rodeo footsteps; places second at Spokane Interstate Rodeo

UPDATED: Sun., Sept. 8, 2024

Stretch, pray and get out there.

News > Spokane

50 years ago in Expo history: Before the miracle on ice, there was the U.S.-Soviet basketball game at the fair

Sun., Sept. 8, 2024

The second game of Expo ’74’s highly anticipated U.S. versus Soviet Union all-star basketball matchup was nearly cut short after the first half.

News > Sci/Tech

Cool critters: Can you dig it? Badgers live here, but prefer life off the grid

Sun., Sept. 8, 2024

In the construction world, there are excavators, bulldozers and backhoes. In the animal world, there are badgers.

News > Business

The Dirt: New 32-unit multifamily project planned near Spokane

Sun., Sept. 8, 2024

Preliminary plans have been submitted to Spokane County to build a four-building, 32-unit multi-housing project on a street that represents the border of Spokane and Spokane County.

News > Crime/Public Safety

‘It was such an iconic place’: Community mourns loss of Wolf Lodge Steakhouse

Sun., Sept. 8, 2024

For the last 25 years, JR and Marie Van Dyke had a standing date.

News > Crime/Public Safety

Jakob Town, the Medical Lake teen killed before his senior year of high school, never missed a moment in life

Sun., Sept. 8, 2024

Seventeen-year-old Jakob Town touched many lives in Spokane County before his death. In what his father described as “miracle connections,” there was always a trail of people and places that knew his name.

News > Local business

Spokane’s largest buildings face uncertainty, potential

Sun., Sept. 8, 2024

Designed, at least partly, by renowned architect Kirtland Cutter, the Peyton Building is one of Spokane's oldest structures and sits on what had been known as downtown's "million-dollar corner."

News > Local government

Hundreds lose out on $200 energy credit after Spokane Valley utility rejects state program

Sun., Sept. 8, 2024

Mike Varallo had thought he found a way to pay for the next four to five months of his electricity bill without dipping into his limited funds.

News > Health

WA Cares is a small lifeline to those workers struggling to pay for long-term care. Voters this fall will decide whether you can opt out

Sun., Sept. 8, 2024

When her elderly father needed 24-hour care, Sam Hatzenbeler could not afford it.

Opinion > Column

Alexandra Duggan: I moved from Boise to Spokane, and I don’t regret it

Sun., Sept. 8, 2024

The day I packed my entire life into my car and drove from Boise to Spokane, I spent the seven-hour drive wiping so many tears from my eyes I could barely see the road.

News > Travel

What’s so great about Spokane, anyway? Transplants share their favorite things about Spokane.

UPDATED: Sun., Sept. 8, 2024

When Lucas McIntyre moved to Spokane from Memphis, Tennessee, in 1998, he had never seen a mountain. At least, not one bigger than his apartment building.

News > Travel

Why this small Maryland city is offering $20,000 to people who move here

Sun., Sept. 8, 2024

With its historic church steeples and the arched Blue Bridge stretching across the north branch of the Potomac River, the city of Cumberland in western Maryland offers a picturesque view of small-town Appalachia to anyone passing by along Interstate 68.

News > Nation/World

Mother of Georgia suspect is said to have called school before shooting, warning of ‘emergency’

UPDATED: Sat., Sept. 7, 2024

The mother of the suspected Apalachee High School gunman told family members that she called the school on the morning of the shooting and warned a counselor about an “extreme emergency” involving her 14-year-old son, according to text messages obtained by the Washington Post.

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