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A money market account is a deposit account that earns interest while providing easier access to your cash than traditional savings accounts. You can find money market accounts, also known as MMAs, at banks and credit unions nationwide.

JERUSALEM – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that the second phase of a U.S. plan to end the war in Gaza was close, but cautioned several key issues still needed to be resolved, including whether a multinational security force would be deployed.

The Spokane Chiefs figured their fans had waited long enough and scored their first goal of the annual Teddy Bear Toss game three minutes and four seconds into the second period, with quite a few fans still in line for concessions.

Kazim Abdullahi was recently exploring career opportunities with U.S. military forces overseas.

Charlie Bean has completed all 49 Bloomsdays, several of them accompanied by his wife, Carol. One year, he accidentally ran the race wearing his wife’s number, not his own, requiring a phone call to race founder Don Kardong to fix the error so he could maintain his Perennial status.

The shrew – North America’s tiniest mammal – will boggle your mind. Ten species live in Washington state. And as you read this, thousands of them are darting around the ground like over-caffeinated furballs while searching for their next meal.

Tim Parkey was sitting in the living room of his Elk home last month with his wife – who has Stage 4 lung cancer – lying in a chair beside him when his cellphone rang.

The Trump administration’s recent flurry of policy changes to the immigration, asylum and refugee admission processes follows an October decision that already reshaped America’s status as a safe haven for those facing persecution.

A remodel project may bring a marijuana dispensary to western Spokane, according to city of Spokane records.

COTONOU – Benin President Patrice Talon said on Sunday that the West African nation's government and armed forces had thwarted a coup attempt by a group of soldiers and vowed to punish them.

From 1975: Guitar legend Chet Atkins headlined a pops concert at the Spokane Opera (Opry?) House, and Atkins opened by saying, “I hope you like guitar pickin’, because that’s all I do.”

You may or may not know that not only am I a home builder, but I’ve also been a master plumber since age 29. I was drawn to the plumbing craft because of its fascinating three-dimensional nature. Your home has but one sewer pipe leaving your house, and often just one vent pipe poking up through your roof. However, in between these two points is a maze of interconnected pipes that all must work together to keep you and your family healthy.

In October, The Spokesman-Review wrote about how “The Strange Beautiful” author Carla Crujido is seeking stories from the Crescent. After researching to write a novel inspired by the meet-cute of her parents at the downtown Spokane department store, she was quickly met with dead ends.

A home is often judged as much by what’s on the outside as by what’s on the inside. A home’s curb appeal helps set the tone, signaling care, design and maintenance to visitors and guests.

Hoping to steal a slice of Santa’s spotlight?

STILLWATER COUNTY, Mont. — Near a dusty road over rolling hills, clouds hung low above the jagged peaks of the Beartooth Mountains just outside Yellowstone National Park. On the plains of this windswept landscape, wind turbines whistled as they spun, each thin, white scythe scraping the sky. This was the Beaver Creek wind farm, one of Puget Sound Energy’s newest renewable energy facilities, ...

CHICAGO — Federal immigration agents deployed tear gas and pepper spray Saturday on a crowd that gathered to protest a prolonged arrest in a northwest Chicago suburb, angering neighbors who said it was “uncalled for” and “tremendously disappointing.” The standoff began around 10 a.m. Saturday when about 15 agents showed up to arrest an unidentified man at an apartment building on the 1600 ...