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Dozens of insurance companies have joined in filing a lawsuit against Inland Power and Light for damages that resulted from the Gray fire last August.

A driver had to be freed from a dump truck and taken to the hospital following a rollover near the Pines Interstate 90 on-ramp in Spokane Valley Monday.

During Tyler Anderson’s sentencing Monday for stabbing his father, Spokane County Superior Court Judge Raymond Clary took his glasses off and rubbed his eyes in apparent frustration.

The U.S. Geological Survey reported a 2.7-magnitude earthquake Monday morning in North Idaho.

The once-raging river had mostly returned to its banks. But left behind here Sunday were glimpses of all it had held during the violence wrought by Helene.

The man charged with attempting to assassinate Donald Trump pleaded not guilty Monday morning during a brief appearance in federal court.

DirecTV unveiled plans Monday to buy Dish Network, bringing together two satellite TV rivals at a time when both are rapidly losing market share to streaming platforms.

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said ground forces would be part of efforts to remove Hezbollah from southern Lebanon, an indication that incursions across the border may be coming.

After battering Florida as a Category 4 hurricane Thursday, Helene dumped historic rainfall on Georgia, the Carolinas and other states, spurring flash flooding and leaving scores of people confirmed dead, with others still missing. The highest death toll was in North Carolina, where flooding wiped out whole communities. Residents there and across vast areas of the Southeast were without water, power, and phone and internet communication. Rescues continued Sunday as the flood started to recede.

Israel bombed the center of Beirut for the first time in almost a year of hostilities with Lebanon’s Hezbollah, stepping up air assaults following the killing of the Iran-backed group’s chief last week.

The Line fire in San Bernardino County, after burning nearly a month, has surged once again, causing new evacuations Sunday.

Sen. JD Vance and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz will debate Tuesday in what’s scheduled as the only vice presidential debate of the 2024 campaign.

Ports from New England to Texas are on the brink of shutting down as longshoremen prepare to go on strike over demands for higher pay and job protections early Tuesday, a work stoppage that will bring trade to a halt along the coast and send ripples through the broader economy.

At least a dozen employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs improperly accessed the medical records of vice-presidential nominees JD Vance and Tim Walz this summer, VA investigators found, in a violation of federal health privacy laws that is under criminal investigation.

More than two years after launching an audit to study racial equity in its warehouses, Amazon quietly released the results last month, revealing workers’ concerns over “inequities,” despite programs the company already has in place.

The sturdy yet inviting 1970s-style brick and plaster single-story Arcadia Elementary School doesn’t clue passersby into the urgency and uncertainty felt by the staff inside the school.

The Seattle SuperSonics played the Chicago Bulls in an Expo ’74-sponsored exhibition game at the Spokane Coliseum, but the result was lackluster.

Even before the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 created the funding mechanism for a national highway system, the Washington State Department of Transportation was already working on improving the U.S. Highway 10 corridor through Spokane with its replacement.