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The investigation into the killing of an Omak couple officially came to an end Monday, but the victim’s family says questions remain about the suspected killer.

Thousands of union workers on Sunday rejected The Boeing Co.’s offer of a double-digit raise in their new contract, laying the ground work for the machinists’ first strike here in decades.

Millions of American students from preschool through college, and their (often) bankrolling parents, back-to-school shop ahead of each fall. But as prices rise, technology evolves and new products hit the shelves, families are seeking ways to keep checking off the school supply list affordable.

President Donald Trump on Monday said he never had the “privilege” of visiting Jeffrey Epstein’s private island as he shed new details on his split from the notorious pedophile who was once his close friend and neighbor in Palm Beach, Florida.

House Republican appropriators plan to disregard the White House’s proposed 40% cut to the National Institutes of Health budget for fiscal 2026, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the situation.

The Smithsonian Institution is resisting an effort from Texas lawmakers to transport the space shuttle Discovery from a Virginia museum to Houston, home of Mission Control, in a battle framed by the cost.

In his first few days guiding aircraft at the Oakland, California, air traffic control center, trainee Ryan Higgins deleted a plane’s data from the radar screen. It was untrackable for a few frantic moments while more experienced controllers made sure the plane was on a safe path. The rookie mistake rattled Higgins and earned him a stern rebuke.

Her name is ubiquitous in public spaces around Los Angeles: the Wallis Annenberg Building at the California Science Center in Exposition Park, the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, the soon-to-debut Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing in Agoura Hills. Then there’s the Annenberg Community Beach House in Santa Monica and Wallis Annenberg GenSpace in Koreatown.

Russia opened a criminal investigation into a hacking attack against Aeroflot PJSC’s information systems that resulted in dozens of the airline’s flights being canceled or delayed on Monday.

As immigration enforcement has been on the rise, concerns over safety has led to the cancellation of an annual festival that celebrates Spokane’s Latino community.

Voters in Spokane County Fire District 8 will get to decide on an EMS levy lid lift Aug. 5, a measure that initially had obtained 58% of the vote required in April.

The brick commercial building at West Indiana Avenue and North Calispel Street was constructed around 1910 and first occupied by the Washington State College veterinary science program. That program closed because of budget cuts in 1923.

From 1975: The Pay ’N Pak hydroplane “continued its Sherman-like march through the unlimited hydroplane season,” winning the Gold Cup Regatta at the Tri-Cities.

Just below Quartzite Mountain rests the idyllic town of Chewelah, Washington.

A new Washington law took effect Sunday that requires local governments to consider pets during wildfire evacuations.

Porch season is in full swing.

The nearly 8,000-acre Hope fire in Stevens County that began July 8, continues to burn but firefighters made grounds reaching 75% containment as of Sunday.