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You may be dazzled by the outdoor kitchens you see on home improvement TV shows. Designers work hard each year to create trends of every type. You see it in clothing, paint colors, new cars and trucks, etc. This is done to pry dollars from your savings account. New products of every type fuel the economy.

A powerful late-season storm system is hitting California and the intermountain west, and over the next several days will dump several feet of high-elevation snow in the Sierra Nevada and deliver multiple inches of rain up and down the coast.

Bebe took in the sights surrounding him – saltwater, parrotfish, coral reefs and bubbles. Unbeknownst to the parrot, he might’ve been the first of his species to spend time underwater in the Atlantic Ocean.

From 1976: A Spokane County commissioner said that a Spokane Valley sewer system was inevitable – “like death and taxes.”

ISLAMABAD – U.S. Vice President JD Vance said on Sunday that his negotiating team was leaving Pakistan after not reaching a deal with Iran following 21 hours of negotiations, jeopardizing a fragile two-week ceasefire.

HOUSTON – The Artemis II capsule and its four-member crew streaked through Earth’s atmosphere and safely splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on Friday after nearly 10 days in space, capping the first voyage by humans to the vicinity of the moon in more than half a century.

WASHINGTON – The Federal Aviation Administration on Friday gave the military the green light to use high-energy lasers to shoot down suspected drones in U.S. airspace, ending a two-month standoff over whether the weapons endangered airplanes.

DALLAS — The State Board of Education gave preliminary approval to a revamped social studies curriculum focusing on Texas and U.S. history and a Bible-infused reading list on Friday. The elected 15-member board — where Republicans hold a majority — is overhauling the state’s social studies curriculum, which will deemphasize world history and culture. The framework has seen pushback from ...

WASHINGTON — Former Rep. Eliot L. Engel, who was a fixture in New York politics for decades until he lost his seat in the House in 2020, has died at the age of 79. Westchester County Executive Ken Jenkins confirmed the news in a statement posted on social media. “We are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of former Congressman Eliot Engel, a tireless public servant who devoted more than ...

WASHINGTON – The Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday that it would weaken cleanup requirements for hundreds of sites that contain waste from burning coal, a move that environmental groups said threatens drinking water for millions of people.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Rep. Eric Swalwell, a leading candidate to succeed outgoing Gov. Gavin Newsom, allegedly sexually assaulted a staff member in 2019, according to a report published Friday by the San Francisco Chronicle. A former staffer claims Swalwell, D-Calif.,sexually assaulted her twice while she was too intoxicated to consent, charges Swalwell denied. “These allegations are false and ...

If you see a bumblebee buzzing around our region’s early-blooming flowers, it’s a queen. Roused by warming temperatures, she recently emerged from overwintering in a grape-sized hole in the ground to search for food and a site to build her colony.

New drive-thrus could be banned in large swaths of Spokane for a year under an emergency moratorium being rushed to the City Council on Monday.

Donning a pink hardhat, Spokane Mayor Lisa Brown on Friday celebrated the work of volunteers at a Cleveland Avenue home being built by Habitat for Humanity.

Angie Howard lives in a walkable neighborhood in Portland, Oregon, and works from home, so she has not had to shell out for higher gas prices since the war in the Middle East began. Still, Howard, who lives alone, said she had noticed costs jumping all around her anyway.

After thousands of new high temperature records were set across the lower 48 states, March 2026 concluded as the warmest March over 132 years, federal records show.

A U.S. appeals court on Friday declared unconstitutional a nearly 158-year-old federal ban on home distilling, calling it an unnecessary and improper means for Congress to exercise its power to tax.

Long serving a taste of Mexico City to downtown Spokane customers, Tacos El Sol is now seeking to satisfy Cheney residents' hankerings for quesabirria, burritos, sopes and more.

A conservative Idaho blogger who defamed a drag performer by implying he exposed himself during Coeur d’Alene’s Pride in the Park four years ago wants her jury verdict thrown out.