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The world’s largest music companies have licensed their works to a music startup called Klay, which is building a streaming service that will allow users to remake songs using artificial intelligence tools.

Social media giant Meta Platforms (Nasdaq: META) has been using artificial intelligence technology to carve out greater efficiencies and increase its competitive advantage. It is spending so much on AI, though, that some investors balked at its third-quarter earnings report, sending the stock down.

BEIRUT – Israel killed militant group Hezbollah's top military official in an airstrike on a southern suburb of Beirut on Sunday, the Israeli military said, despite a U.S.-brokered truce a year ago.

When Jessye Kass Karlin asked for a raise, she didn’t just need one person to say “yes.” She needed eight.

Here we are, approaching Thanksgiving, and the wild turkey is once again the focus of avian attention. But the California quail deserves some of the spotlight as well.

The Spokane City Council is poised to raise utility taxes and rates by half a percent for the next year, the second tax increase proposed to help fill a projected $13 million budget deficit in 2026.

The Kendall Yards mixed-use development is a project that turned a contaminated old rail yard into a vibrant neighborhood with high walkability and diverse home types. But the development, which sits just north west across the Spokane River from downtown, has slowed in the past few years.

Have you seen Jim Biddle’s 1951 Pontiac Chieftain driving around Bloomington, Indiana?

Latinos En Spokane celebrated its anniversary Saturday in typical fashion – taking hundreds of people’s taste buds around Latin America with a variety of styles and flavors of tamales.

WASHINGTON – When the Senate Finance Committee met Wednesday for a hearing on the rising cost of health care in the United States, Republicans and Democrats agreed the problem has become a national crisis, but it didn’t take long for the parties to demonstrate why they’ve had such a hard time working together to solve it.

As winter looms on the Lilac City’s horizon, so too does the question of what to do with Spokane’s homeless population.

Interior design helps shape environments where we work and live. As lifestyles change, designers must design and adapt spaces.

From 1975: Spokane’s plan to reclaim its riverbanks “is moving faster than its developers thought possible and now stands at about 70 per cent.”

When it comes to getting ready for the holidays, many people take a page out of Santa’s book: Make a list, then check it twice. It’s a strategy for success, according to entertaining and home-keeping experts. We want the holiday season to be filled with joy, but it also comes with a heavy dose of shopping, cooking, wrapping, hosting and no small amount of cleaning. All those things require planning and coordination.

I have been installing stunning green subway tile the past two weekends in my son’s new basement bathroom. Subway tile is rectangular in shape. The grout joints between each tile have the same back-and-forth staggered pattern as mortar joints between bricks in a wall. It’s a fascinating look, and one you should give serious consideration to should a tile job be in your future. The colors, textures and crackled glazing in some subway tile will take your breath away.

Imagine living in a war torn, politically unstable country where there is so much violence that you are afraid for your safety. Imagine having to make the hard decision to flee your country at the first opportunity without any of your belongings or money. This is the life of a refugee.

U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, left, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll and other members of the U.S. delegation, Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak, right, and other members of the Ukrainian delegation sit before closed-door talks on ending Russia’s war in Ukraine on Sunday at the U.S. Mission in Geneva, Switzerland.

Wrapping up a Friday meeting about legislative priorities for next year’s session in Olympia, eight city, county and state politicians and officials walked into an elevator in the Community Building in downtown Spokane.

At a time of historic nurse shortages, aspiring healthcare workers might find it harder to get help paying for their degree.