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Mechanical diggers have spent days excavating the dark, volcanic earth of the city of Goma, preparing long trenches in which to bury the victims of one of the deadliest battles in decades in Congo.

Israel's military withdrew Sunday from a key corridor dividing the Gaza Strip, leaving nearly all of the territory's north, as required by a tenuous ceasefire with Hamas before any negotiations for a longer-lasting agreement.

PULLMAN – Washington State University’s 12th president, Elizabeth “Betsy” Cantwell, will take the helm April 1 at a crossroads for both the school and the country.

Judges are putting the brakes on some of the most dramatic moves of President Donald Trump’s first three weeks in office, slowing actions targeted at migrants, federal workers, government spending and transgender Americans.

The city of Springfield, Ohio, local officials and residents are suing a neo-Nazi group for allegedly leading an intimidation campaign against people who defended the area’s Haitian community from racist attacks last year, according to court documents reviewed by the Washington Post.

Three years ago, Gloria Koger was rushed in an ambulance to MultiCare Deaconess Hospital where she nearly died.

Two days before Joe Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election over Donald Trump, then-Sandpoint resident Michael A. Pope messaged his brother in Topeka, Kansas. "Trump needs to pick up a pistol and finish this," Pope wrote his brother, William A. Pope, on Nov. 5, 2020.  

Plans for a new detox facility, which first surfaced in 2022, continue to advance for a site on North Evergreen Road in Spokane Valley.

Pernell Cezar’s coffee company, BLK & Bold, was operating out of the back of a brewery with three employees when he got his big break: an audience with a buyer at a Target Black History Month expo. By January 2020, bags of his Rise & GRND roast were on Target shelves.

The American dipper, a drab-looking bird no larger than a robin, is a splashy rarity: a songbird that swims and even walks underwater. This round-bodied gray bird with short wings and a stubby tail is North America’s only aquatic songbird.

In 1978, Rick Steves had a good thing going at home in Edmonds, Washington – until he blew it up.

Rufina Reyes, director of La Resistencia – a Washington state-based nonprofit that works to end the detention of immigrants – said she was recently in contact with a woman inside the Northwest Detention Center on the West Side.

Mortgage rates could go up because of a trade war between the United States and Canada, Mexico and China, according to real estate experts. Tariffs also could potentially increase prices on building materials, and more, and inflation invariably means mortgage rates will go up. Nicholas Irwin, research director for UNLV’s Lied Center for Real Estate, said the current housing climate in Las ...

Retail companies have been through the gauntlet. The pandemic, rising inflation and shifts in consumer spending have pressured the stock performance of many retail companies. Slowing sales at Dollar General (NYSE: DG) have sent its stock down, but after falling more than 70% from its 2022 highs, it might be one of the most undervalued retail stocks right now. The company has continued to pay quarterly dividends, and its dividend yield was recently a solid 3%.

From 1975: The Spokesman-Review reprinted a story from Pravda, the Soviet newspaper, in which the Russian correspondent gave his impressions of Spokane after his Expo ’74 visit.

The damage to the fire-ravaged neighborhoods of Altadena, California, appears endless and unsparing.

A man was shot and killed by a Yakima police officer during an armed confrontation Saturday afternoon near the Yakima Greenway.

Chaos erupted aboard a Frontier Airlines flight from Denver to Houston this past week when a man started bashing a window and several seats around him, prompting other passengers to subdue him with shoelaces and zip ties until the plane landed.