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Local law enforcement not requiring or tracking employee COVID-19 vaccinations

UPDATED: 7:46 p.m.

Law enforcement agencies in the Inland Northwest aren’t requiring COVID-19 vaccines or tracking how many of their officers have received the shot, despite local hospitals being overwhelmed by increased hospitalizations and deaths among unvaccinated people.

K-12 education

COVID-19 cases soaring in local schools, with at least 800 positive tests in Inland Northwest this month

UPDATED: 10:40 p.m.

Crime/Public Safety

Detectives arrest man accused of severely beating elderly mother

UPDATED: 7:37 p.m.

Pacific NW

Spokane and North Idaho to (finally) be covered by showers this weekend

UPDATED: 8:26 p.m.

News

Kootenai Health remains in crisis standards of care despite staffing support

UPDATED: 9:50 p.m.

Health

‘I’m scared for all of us’: Idaho declares crisis standards for all hospitals as COVID-19 surges

UPDATED: 9:14 p.m.

Higher education

Eastern Washington colleges begin crackdown on submission of student, staff vaccine statuses

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Public Safety

Detectives arrest man accused of severely beating elderly mother

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 17, 2021

Local Government

Spokane health leaders pivot on spot of COVID isolation center for homeless people and others

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 17, 2021

Local Business

Business beat

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 17, 2021

National Business

U.S. Steel to build $3 billion mill as rally endures

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 17, 2021

Nation

Weather slows wildfire near California’s giant sequoia trees

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 17, 2021

World

Pentagon reverses itself, calls deadly Kabul strike an error

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 17, 2021

Washington

Family sues over police death of Manuel Ellis in Tacoma

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 17, 2021

Idaho

Idaho Republican officials plan lawsuit over vaccine mandate

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 17, 2021

WA Government

Hundreds of state troopers among the thousands of Washington state employees who want exemptions to Inslee’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate

UPDATED: Tue., Sept. 14, 2021

ID Government

Jim Risch, Senate Foreign Relations Committee grill secretary of state over ‘fatally flawed’ Afghanistan exit

UPDATED: Tue., Sept. 14, 2021

Education: K-12

COVID-19 cases soaring in local schools, with at least 800 positive tests in Inland Northwest this month

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 17, 2021

Higher Education

Eastern Washington colleges begin crackdown on submission of student, staff vaccine statuses

Fri., Sept. 17, 2021

Health

Hundreds of state troopers among the thousands of Washington state employees who want exemptions to Inslee’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate

UPDATED: Tue., Sept. 14, 2021

Transportation

Two people hospitalized after small plane crashes near Palouse

UPDATED: Wed., Sept. 15, 2021

Science & Tech

Tom Cruise gets sneak preview from SpaceX’s 1st private crew

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 17, 2021

Northwest

Drought haves, have-nots test how to share water in the West

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 17, 2021

Military

France recalls ambassadors to U.S., Australia over sub deal

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 17, 2021

Columnists

Shawn Vestal: Maybe Risch should have slept through this hearing too

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 17, 2021

Religion

Many faith leaders say no to endorsing vaccine exemptions

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 17, 2021

Outdoors

Cold, rain, COVID-19 force cancellation of Spokatopia for second straight year

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 17, 2021

Agriculture

‘I haven’t seen anything like this’: Washington wheat growers face low yields in record drought year

UPDATED: Wed., Aug. 4, 2021

History

100 years ago in Eastern Washington: Police feared the suspects from the Reardan bank robbery were headed to Spokane, and prosecutors pushed for hanging in the Gracio murder

Fri., Sept. 17, 2021

2020 Election

Reconstruction-era amendment could bar Trump from future public office, historian Eric Foner says in WSU lecture

UPDATED: Tue., Feb. 16, 2021

Weather

Spokane and North Idaho to (finally) be covered by showers this weekend

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 17, 2021

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Family sues over police death of Manuel Ellis in Tacoma

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 17, 2021

SEATTLE – The family of Manuel Ellis, a Black man who died while being restrained by Tacoma police officers who have since been charged criminally, has filed a federal lawsuit over his death.

News > Crime/Public Safety

‘We will never, ever see our brother’: Driver sentenced to 6.5 years in prison after killing pedestrian while under the influence

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 17, 2021

A man who struck and killed another man with his vehicle last year in downtown Spokane was sentenced Friday to 6½ years in prison.

News > World

Ex-Algerian president Bouteflika, ousted amid protests, dies

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 17, 2021

ALGIERS, Algeria — Former Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who fought for independence from France, reconciled his conflict-ravaged nation and was then ousted amid pro-democracy protests in 2019 after two decades in power, has died at age 84, state television announced Friday.

News > Health

10 new COVID-19 deaths in Spokane County

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 17, 2021

The Spokane Regional Health District reported 259 new COVID-19 cases and ten additional deaths on Friday.

News > Nation/World

Official says U.S. will deport ‘massive’ number of Haitians

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 17, 2021

DEL RIO, Texas — The Biden administration plans the widescale expulsion of Haitian migrants from a small Texas border city by putting them on on flights to Haiti starting Sunday, an official said Friday, representing a swift and dramatic response to thousands who suddenly crossed the border from Mexico and gathered under and around a bridge.

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Is ivermectin going to kill you? Probably not, unless you take the dosage meant for horses

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 17, 2021

A five-fold increase in calls to the Washington Poison Center regarding ivermectin, a medication most commonly used to deworm horses and other livestock, but recently viewed as an alternative elixir for COVID-19, has health experts worried.

News > Nation/World

U.N. using honor system to check vaccinations for big meeting

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 17, 2021

UNITED NATIONS – The U.N. General Assembly is relying on an honor system – and only an honor system – to ensure world leaders have been vaccinated before they speak at next week’s big meeting, the assembly president said.

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Blue-green algae alert issued for Newman Lake

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 17, 2021

Spokane County’s Environmental Programs issued a harmful algae bloom alert for Newman Lake after test results taken this week revealed potentially harmful toxicity levels for cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae.

News > Washington

Body of woman found off Stevens Pass ruled homicide

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 17, 2021

STEVENS PASS, Wash. (AP) — The body of a woman found in an isolated area off Stevens Pass has been identified, and her death ruled a homicide.

News > Crime/Public Safety

Detectives arrest man accused of severely beating elderly mother

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 17, 2021

A man who allegedly assaulted his mother, leaving the woman in her late 70s hospitalized, has been arrested.

News > Nation/World

N.Y. millionaire Robert Durst guilty of best friend’s murder

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 17, 2021

INGLEWOOD, Calif. — A Los Angeles jury convicted Robert Durst on Friday of murdering his best friend 20 years ago, a case that took on new life after the New York real estate heir participated in a documentary that connected him to the slaying that was linked to his wife’s 1982 disappearance.

News > Idaho

It’s Idaho’s first time activating crisis standards of care. Here’s what that means

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 17, 2021

BOISE – Idaho’s Department of Health and Welfare this week activated crisis standards of care across the state for the first time as COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations surge.

News > Pacific NW

Oregon expands wolf kill due to threat to livestock

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 17, 2021

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News > Crime/Public Safety

Washington records

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 17, 2021

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News > Idaho

Federal court rejects Idaho pollution permit for dairies

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 17, 2021

BOISE – A federal circuit court has rejected a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency statewide Idaho permit involving pollution into waterways from large dairy farms.

News > Idaho

Idaho Republican officials plan lawsuit over vaccine mandate

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 17, 2021

BOISE – Idaho Republican officials are warning President Joe Biden of legal action if his proposed coronavirus vaccine requirement for about 100 million Americans goes into effect.

News > Nation

‘Devious licks’ videos of damage, thefts bedevil US schools

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 17, 2021

TOPEKA, Kan. – Kids across the U.S. are posting TikTok videos of themselves vandalizing school bathrooms and stealing soap dispensers and even turf from football fields, bedeviling school administrators seeking to contain the viral internet trend.

News > Nation

Weather slows wildfire near California’s giant sequoia trees

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 17, 2021

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News > Nation/World

Land agency moving back to D.C., reversing Trump-era decision

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 17, 2021

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland is moving the national headquarters of the Bureau of Land Management, which oversees 245 million acres in Western states, back to the nation's capital after two years in Colorado.

News > Nation

Many faith leaders say no to endorsing vaccine exemptions

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 17, 2021

As significant numbers of Americans seek religious exemptions from COVID-19 vaccine mandates, many faith leaders are saying: Not with our endorsement.

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