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Hurricane Melissa’s confirmed death toll climbed to 44 on Thursday, according to official reports, after wreaking destruction across much of the northern Caribbean and picking up speed as it headed toward Bermuda.

A year after he was appointed Coeur d’Alene mayor, Woody McEvers is running against three opponents who also want the seat.

From 1975: Everett Hofmeister Jr. was acquitted on charges of murdering his wife – and immediately announced plans to run for Idaho attorney general.

On Aug. 21, Frank and Carolyn Payne celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary.

BEIJING - China has agreed to delay the introduction of its latest round of rare earth export controls as part of a deal agreed between Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, but earlier restrictions on the critical minerals that have upended global trade remain.

A former Spokane County Sheriff’s Office sergeant faces new federal charges on top of an assault charge in state court after being accused of badly beating a then-62-year-old man during an arrest.

Spokane has seen its first influenza death of the cold and flu season.

Both candidates in a race for Post Falls Board of Trustees have experience with the district: one as the incumbent trustee and the other as a former teacher and principal of more than two decades.

Students and staff at John A. Shaw Middle School in Spokane’s Bemiss neighborhood were placed under lockdown Wednesday morning after a student brought a BB gun to school.

The federal government could be in contempt of court for defying a U.S. District Court judge’s order blocking National Guard deployment to Portland.

In Spokane, homelessness has been on local streets and minds for years, and either Spokane City Council incumbent Zack Zappone or newcomer Christopher Savage will be elected to help address the problem.

As the president and Congress remain at an impasse on how to move forward with the federal budget, 1.4 million federal workers are no longer receiving paychecks and 1 in 8 food insecure Americans will be cut off from food stamps.

Hurricane Melissa pulled away from Cuba on Wednesday morning, leaving a trail of devastation that stretched through Cuba’s second most populous region and Jamaica, where it was the strongest storm to ever strike the island nation. Next in its sights is the Bahamas. The storm has a confirmed death toll of at least 27, mostly in Haiti, where flash flooding overtopped a river and submerged a ...

The U.S. economy will lose between $7 billion and $14 billion due to the federal government shutdown, according to a new report released Wednesday by Congress’s nonpartisan bookkeeper.