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The dust stirred from the combine harvesting fields of chickpeas, charging forward like an auburn tsunami barreling across the scenic fields of the Palouse.

NEWPORT, Wash. – A global Buddhist community gathered Monday to consecrate the new Buddha Hall at Sravasti Abbey, marking the completion of a three-year construction project designed to serve as a refuge for those seeking peace.

The upper floor of the building that features the Globe Nightclub may soon receive an interior renovation, according to a remodel application submitted to the city of Spokane.

The candidates to replace longtime Spokane Valley City Councilman Rod Higgins have different takes on how the city should grow and how to keep it safe.

WASHINGTON – As Congress returned to the Capitol on Tuesday from its summer break with less than a month avert a government shutdown, the biggest impediment to funding the government may be lawmakers’ lack of confidence in each other – and in their own authority to direct federal spending.

From 1975: Spokane police formed a SWAT team (Special Weapons and Tactics) in November 1973 – but as of September 1975, the team had never been called into service.

SHENZHEN, China – China is conquering the world in electric vehicles. Its automakers produce far more than any other country and outpace them on innovation. China’s appetite for gasoline-powered cars is fading by the week. In each of the last five months, battery-powered and plug-in hybrid cars made up more than half of all cars sold.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (NYSE: TSM) is a major supplier for leading chip companies such as Nvidia, Advanced Micro Devices and Broadcom. While TSMC’s second-quarter revenue grew 44% year over year, steadily improving gross profit margins and a disciplined cost structure fueled even more acceleration for its bottom line: Earnings per share grew by nearly 61%.

BOSTON — Waiting inside his unmarked cruiser at a bank parking lot, the deputy director of ICE’s ERO Boston field office received a call from his radio: His colleagues spotted their target. After a slow morning, it was go time and The Boston Herald was along for the ride. David Wesling sped out of the parking lot and onto Broadway. Instantly, traffic came to a halt on the busy corridor in ...

The mountain wind whispering through the trees, the crackle of the campfire, the gentle neighing of horses, the clanging of the dinner bell: Since their heyday in the 1920s, dude ranches have transported travelers from the chaos of the city to the tranquility of the trail.

Sucralose, a common artificial sweetener, may be preventing the body from responding to cancer immunotherapy, a new study out of the University of Pittsburgh finds.

Just days after hundreds of Koreans were detained during a U.S. immigration raid at a Hyundai Metaplant near Savannah, officials in South Korea are vowing to support those in detention. During an emergency Saturday afternoon meeting in Seoul, Foreign Minister Cho Hyun ordered officials to make “all-out efforts” to resolve the detention of about 300 South Koreans, The Korea Herald reported ...

In the summer of 2020, President Donald Trump sent federal agents to Kansas City, Missouri, as he blamed liberal mayors for a “shocking explosion” of “bloodshed.”

In a rare show of bipartisanship in Georgia elections, a few prominent Democratic lawmakers are supporting a Republican effort to move toward hand-marked paper ballots. U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson is the most prominent Georgia Democrat so far to embrace the Republican proposal for a test-run of filling out ballots by hand instead of by machine during this November’s elections. Although Republican ...

Pastor Tim Remington loves the man who shot him six times nearly a decade ago in his Coeur d’Alene church’s parking lot.

The songwriter was unconscious, but his voice filled the operating room.