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Since the four Lower Snake River dams were completed, the economic benefits they provide have been in tension with their impact on the salmon and steelhead that hatch above the dams and must return there from the ocean to spawn before they die. After the Biden administration and Northwest Democrats took tentative steps toward the potential of breaching the dams in hopes of restoring dwindling salmon runs, President Donald Trump's return to the White House seems to have foreclosed that possibility – at least for now.

Nextdoor, the once-hot social network for neighborhoods, wants to claw its way back to the top and prove that people can use the platform for more than just finding lost cats.

Spider mites are arthropods related to spiders and ticks. They’re tiny in size; gigantic in presence.

Graduate medical education programs rely on Congress to allocate residency slots and funding. The number of those slots has not changed since an initial cap set by Congress in 1996, according to the American Medical Association.

From 1975: A Spokane cost of living survey showed that the average rental price of two-bedroom apartment was $135 per month, and the average purchase price for a house was $22,450.

Washington pot businesses may be growing far more pot than stores are selling, a new study says.

NEW YORK – Jennifer Lopez announced she’s “done” with marriage after four divorces, along with a couple of broken engagements.

White kitchens will always be in style, but today’s homeowner is also looking for a kitchen that is both classic and colorful.

LOS ANGELES — Meteorologists warned about the chance of flash floods days before Texas' Fourth of July disaster that killed at least 133. Yet, local officials in the hardest-hit areas say they were shocked by the scale of the devastation. "I have cried on multiple occasions," Chris Suchan, chief meteorologist with WOAI-TV Channel 4, the NBC affiliate in San Antonio, wrote in a recent Facebook ...

LOS ANGELES — A patron who had been tossed out of a popular East Hollywood nightclub early Saturday later intentionally smashed his car into a crowd outside the venue, injuring 30 people — including seven critically — before being pulled out of his vehicle and shot by a bystander, police said. The gray Nissan Versa drove onto the sidewalk and hit a valet stand and taco stand before slamming ...

The Trump administration’s dramatic reorganization of the State Department, including this month’s firing of more than 1,300 workers, was engineered primarily by a handful of political appointees lacking extensive diplomatic experience and chosen for their “fidelity” to the president and willingness to “break stuff” on his behalf, according to people with knowledge of the process.

ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center continued Saturday to assess a tropical wave moving across the Atlantic with a chance to develop into the season’s next tropical depression or storm. In its 2 p.m. tropical outlook, the NHC said the wave was located about 900 miles west-southwest of the Cape Verde Islands in the central tropical Atlantic, and was interacting with a broad area of ...

PAGOSA SPRINGS, Colo. – Much about the spring that gives this mountain town its name remains a mystery.

When a 7.3-magnitude earthquake rumbled beneath the Bering Sea on Wednesday 50 miles south of Sand Point, Alaska, authorities sent their first tsunami warnings directly to the nearest public radio station, KUCB in the Aleutian Islands town of Unalaska. Along with other local NPR and PBS stations, it immediately broadcast alerts for residents and tourists to get to higher ground. By the time the Alaska Emergency Management Agency contacted Sand Point and other island communities, the word was already out, said the agency’s director, Bryan Fisher.

If the walls of a room are an outfit, think of the trim (also known as woodwork, window casings and the like) as a statement accessory. With that in mind, many designers are turning to rich tones that imbue a room with charm.