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

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.

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."

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Chewelah is currently working on a major water system upgrade that will help resolve a high level of a certain mineral in the water. This comes 50 years after its last upgrade.

Reinforced Ukrainian defenders in a key location on the front have halted what had been relentless Russian advances in eastern Ukraine, according to soldiers and battlefield maps. But Russia continued to advance elsewhere, and pressed on Saturday with long-range bombardment of more distant cities.

A popular hiking trail on the island of Kauai in Hawaii was closed this week after more than three dozen people fell ill in what officials said was a "rare occurrence" of the highly contagious norovirus.

A day after wreaking havoc in southern China, Typhoon Yagi pummeled northern Vietnam on Saturday, leaving four people dead and at least 78 others injured, Vietnam’s Disaster Management Authority said.

Iran has sent short-range ballistic missiles to Russia, according to U.S. and European officials, despite warnings from Washington and its allies not to provide those armaments to Moscow to use against targets in Ukraine.

From the steps of the Colorado Supreme Court building, Rachel Pickrel-Hawkins projected into a microphone, hoping the judges statewide would hear her plea.

The United Nations on Friday called for a “full investigation” into the circumstances leading to the death of an American woman in the occupied West Bank, saying civilians should be protected at all times.

President Joe Biden’s monthslong push for a cease-fire and hostage release deal between Israel and Hamas has been upended again in recent days, putting the deal on life support as U.S. officials say they have indefinitely postponed their plan to present the two sides with a “take it or leave it” proposal.

In 2022, a couple from Canada registered a company in Tennessee called Tenet Media. They assembled a lineup of conservative social media stars, including Benny Johnson, Tim Pool and Dave Rubin, to post original content on Tenet’s platform. It was all, federal prosecutors say, a Russian influence operation.

Space programs are a small part of Boeing's business, but the work is a point of pride. Boeing has long been involved in spaceflight, going back to the first mission to take an American to space. But Boeing's efforts to add to that space heritage are in doubt.