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Four days a week, Tuesday through Friday, Leah Skinner climbs out of bed early, gets her autistic son ready for school, takes her medication and heads to her job as a shift manager at McDonald’s.

From 1975: The search for the body of Joseph Hedger was still underway, and the suspect in the shooting, John C. Brannon, was not talking.

Trader Joe’s could be coming to Spokane Valley.

PITTSBURGH - As real estate prices and interest rates shot up in recent years, the prospect of homeownership moved further for many Americans, especially young adults in large metro areas where the median home price can run well over half-a-million dollars.

KYIV, Ukraine — Following the previous day's admission that it had lost several villages to the Russian invaders, the Ukrainian army has had to abandon further positions in the southern Zaporizhzhya region. "Late in the evening, Ukrainian units withdrew to more favorable positions due to the massive shelling of our positions in the Rivnopillia area," the Southern Command announced on Wednesday ...

WASHINGTON — Democrat Adelita Grijalva was sworn into Congress on Wednesday, more than seven weeks after she won a special election for the Tucson-area House seat, ending a tumultuous and partisan tug-of-war to get her seated. Grijalva won the seat in a Sept. 23 special election, but Speaker Mike Johnson had kept the House in recess, citing the government shutdown, and ignored demands from ...

It’s been a long time coming.

Spokane County leaders say they hope clean filtered water will flow from contaminated wells on the West Plains by next summer.

Katie Wilson, a longtime advocate whose City Hall rise came as she pushed for more progressive taxes, has been elected Seattle’s next mayor.

After 28 years of no answers, DNA has helped solve the cold-case homicide of a floral designer and mother of two who was raped, bludgeoned to death and left face down in a Spokane alley in 1997.

For more than 2,000 years, the Kyrgyz people enjoyed a nomadic lifestyle in Central Asia.

Mary Herschend would not let trees be cut down.

In Washington, more people are getting paid to learn new careers than ever before.

In some of Idaho’s more rural communities, a public library can be the only source of reliable internet, a free meeting or study place, or the only place to get a book without having to order online.

WASHINGTON – The House of Representatives voted largely along party lines Wednesday night to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, with Northwest Republicans voting to fund most of the federal government through January while all but one Democrat from the region opposed the bill because it did not address expiring health insurance subsidies.

I want to thank the gentleman who recognized me at Costco last week and asked how to control the box elder bugs he’d been trying to control this fall. I haven’t dealt with them and welcomed the chance to do some research.

Michelle James, who lost her husband to cancer that she believes was caused by contaminated drinking water at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, is among thousands of people with U.S. military connections who did not feel very appreciated this Veterans Day.