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Recently acquired Spokane Valley laboratory could lay off 310 workers

Updated 10:10 p.m.

Some 310 Spokane Valley-based laboratory workers’ jobs will be affected after their parent company was purchased by an industry giant.

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Two Spokane police officers cleared in fatal downtown shooting of man with knife

Updated 8:47 p.m.

Spokane City Council seeks applicants for four-month stint on council

Updated 8:33 p.m.

Opening of new Palisades Park trail marks milestone in decades-long conservation effort by neighbors and one 'charismatic cowboy'
Victoria Bauman wins Community Library Network seat
Facing extreme health disparities, Native voices must be added to Spokane's Board of Health under new state law

Recently acquired Spokane Valley laboratory could lay off 310 workers

Updated 10:10 p.m.

Trump rattles markets with fresh tariff threats on EU, Apple

With 2026 midterms top of mind, budget vote takes center stage

US considering pulling some troops from South Korea, WSJ reports

Updated 8:52 p.m.

Seattle’s Space Needle now has a double-decker all-glass elevator

Updated 9:48 p.m.

After DOGE staff cuts, Idaho’s renowned forest plans to cut summer office hours

Updated 9:30 p.m.

Washingtonians will need state permit to buy guns under new law

School levies pass with strong margins in North Idaho

Trump administration cancels $20M climate change grant awarded to Gonzaga, Spokane last year

Facing extreme health disparities, Native voices must be added to Spokane’s Board of Health under new state law

Record travel expected this weekend and this summer at Spokane airport

Updated 9:03 p.m.

Recently acquired Spokane Valley laboratory could lay off 310 workers

Updated 10:10 p.m.

Students learn to pilot planes in high school program, some even before they’ve learned to drive

A surprising source of clouds in Antarctica: Penguin poop

This day in history: Spokane mayor opposed Davenport Hotel nomination for historic registration. Great Northern Railway unveiled plans for electrification

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This day in history: Spokane mayor opposed Davenport Hotel nomination for historic registration. Great Northern Railway unveiled plans for electrification

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Spokane psychedelic church gets first approval of its kind from DEA to possess ayahuasca

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This day in history: Spokane mayor opposed Davenport Hotel nomination for historic registration. Great Northern Railway unveiled plans for electrification

Sat., May 24, 2025

From 1975: Over the protests of Spokane Mayor David H. Rodgers, the Davenport Hotel was nominated by the state for listing on the National Register of Historic Places.

News > Local business

Recently acquired Spokane Valley laboratory could lay off 310 workers

UPDATED: Fri., May 23, 2025

Some 310 Spokane Valley-based laboratory workers’ jobs will be affected after their parent company was purchased by an industry giant.

News > Spokane

Spokane canines clock high speeds at dog show at fairgrounds

UPDATED: Fri., May 23, 2025

The Spokane County Fair & Expo Center went to the dogs Friday.

News > Washington

Seattle’s only homeless RV parking lot makes way for pickleball complex

UPDATED: Fri., May 23, 2025

Seattle's only parking lot for homeless people living in their RVs closed this month to make way for a three-story pickleball complex. The nonprofit operating the lot says it hopes to reopen at a new location soon.

News > Washington

Yum! You can now take some roadkill home to eat in southwest WA

UPDATED: Fri., May 23, 2025

Good news for people who enjoy deer, elk and saving money: The Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife will allow people to take home and eat deer killed in motor vehicle crashes in Clark, Cowlitz and Wahkiakum counties.

News > Local government

Spokane City Council seeks applicants for four-month stint on council

UPDATED: Fri., May 23, 2025

The Spokane City Council is seeking applicants for a roughly four-month stint on the council to fill a seat being vacated by Councilwoman Lili Navarrete.

News > Washington

Seattle’s Space Needle now has a double-decker all-glass elevator

UPDATED: Fri., May 23, 2025

SEATTLE – There’s always one person who’s afraid of heights in a group ascending the 605-foot Space Needle.

News > Crime/Public Safety

Lower South Hill apartment fire leaves no injuries

UPDATED: Fri., May 23, 2025

Two residents were rescued from a burning lower South Hill apartment Thursday afternoon, according to a Spokane Fire Department news release.

News > Nation/World

Judge blocks Trump effort to bar international students at Harvard

UPDATED: Fri., May 23, 2025

A federal judge Friday halted the Trump administration's attempts to block international students from attending Harvard University, the nation's oldest university and one of its most prestigious.

News > Nation/World

Trump orders faster build-out of nuclear power plants

UPDATED: Fri., May 23, 2025

President Donald Trump signed four executive orders Friday aimed at accelerating the construction of nuclear power plants in the United States, including a new generation of small, advanced reactors that offer the promise of faster deployment but have yet to be proven.

News > Nation/World

Boeing reaches deal to avoid criminal responsibility over 737 Max crashes

UPDATED: Fri., May 23, 2025

Boeing reached a deal with the Justice Department on Friday that would spare the company from taking criminal responsibility for a pair of deadly 737 Max crashes in 2018 and 2019.

News > Idaho

After DOGE staff cuts, Idaho’s renowned forest plans to cut summer office hours

UPDATED: Fri., May 23, 2025

One of Idaho’s most popular national forests plans to temporarily shutter two of its ranger stations before reopening them on a limited schedule during the busy summer season. The cuts come three months after President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, led by billionaire Elon Musk, slashed jobs at the U.S. Forest Service. Officials with the Sawtooth National Forest, which ...

News > Crime/Public Safety

Two Spokane police officers cleared in fatal downtown shooting of man with knife

UPDATED: Fri., May 23, 2025

Two Spokane police officers will not face criminal charges after they shot and killed an intoxicated suicidal man who walked toward officers with a knife last year in downtown Spokane.

News > Transportation

Record travel expected this weekend and this summer at Spokane airport

UPDATED: Fri., May 23, 2025

Highways and airports will be especially busy during this Memorial Day weekend as lower gas prices help fuel the traditional start of the summer travel season.

News > World

Container ship barely misses Norwegian man’s house after running aground

UPDATED: Fri., May 23, 2025

A man in Norway woke to find a 443-foot shipping vessel towering over his home after it ran aground into his yard.

News > Nation/World

FEMA faces backlog of emergency aid requests as hurricane season nears

UPDATED: Fri., May 23, 2025

The Federal Emergency Management Agency faces a backlog of unprocessed emergency aid requests as hurricane season approaches - a sign of how the White House’s insistence that states shoulder more of the burden for disaster response is playing out at the agency, current and former FEMA officials say.

News > Nation

She’s 11 years old. She’s about to graduate from college in California. And she’s just getting started

UPDATED: Fri., May 23, 2025

Sandra Ruiz thought nothing of it when a man and his 8-year-old daughter walked into her intro to computer science course. After all, working parents were nothing new at Crafton Hills College in Yucaipa. Imagine her surprise when it turned out she had it backward.

News > National business

Trump rattles markets with fresh tariff threats on EU, Apple

UPDATED: Fri., May 23, 2025

President Donald Trump threatened a sweeping 50% tariff on the European Union and a 25% levy on Apple Inc. if the tech giant failed to move iPhone manufacturing to the U.S., reigniting investor fears about his trade agenda.

News > Sci/Tech

FAA OK’s SpaceX to launch Starship again after last flight’s destruction

UPDATED: Fri., May 23, 2025

SpaceX’s last two efforts to make progress on its Starship and Super Heavy rocket ended with streaks of debris hurtling across the sky. The Federal Aviation Administration, though, is now satisfied it’s safe for SpaceX to try again.

News > Nation

With 2026 midterms top of mind, budget vote takes center stage

UPDATED: Fri., May 23, 2025

Now that House Republicans have passed their “big, beautiful” budget reconciliation bill, both parties are poised to make Thursday’s early morning vote a central point of their midterm messaging.

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