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Feb. 12—When it comes to money, Democrats and Republicans don't agree on much in Olympia. But there's a common consensus when it comes to the cost of living — constituents across the state are struggling with a number of affordability issues, such as housing, groceries and health care. A group of House Democrats wants to see the state's minimum wage raised to $25 to support low-wage workers. ...

Feb. 12—The city of Seattle is joining a lawsuit led by other so-called sanctuary jurisdictions, alleging the Trump administration is illegally threatening to cut off federal resources and deputize local law enforcement in its efforts to deport more people from the United States. City Attorney Ann Davison said the impact to Seattle should it lose federal resources would be "significant." She ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order titled "Ending Procurement and Forced Use of Paper Straws" on Monday. 

A Treasure Valley city wants to “get rid of a library director,” according to a state representative who presented a bill that could help them do it. The proposed legislation, introduced by Rep. Jeff Cornilles, R-Nampa, in the House Local Government Committee, would allow city councils to have the ultimate say over hiring and firing public library directors — a power now vested with library ...

Some CEOs at Idaho’s nine largest publicly traded companies took home hundreds of times more than their median workers earned in 2023, records reviewed by the Idaho Statesman show. Most publicly traded companies are required to disclose their CEOs’ pay in annual proxy statements provided to shareholders and filed for public viewing online at the U.S Securities and Exchange Commission. In 2018, ...

From 1975: The Trentwood plant of the Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corp., a major area employer, announced that it would lay off between 200 and 250 men.

The man shot by a Spokane police officer in an East Central apartment complex on Sunday is still in the hospital after undergoing surgery .

Spokane County has been accused of unfair labor practices after renewing and expanding a medical services contract with a private company to treat county jail inmates.

The White House fired the independent inspector general for the U.S. Agency for International Development on Tuesday evening, a day after his office issued a blistering report assessing the impact of the Trump administration’s efforts to significantly curtail the agency’s mission.

JERUSALEM – The future of the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and the territory's long-term fate hung in the balance Tuesday as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel warned Hamas that if the scheduled release of hostages did not take place Saturday, Israeli troops would resume "intense fighting."

A week of bitterly cold temperatures should improve Thursday as a fresh layer of snow falls across the Inland Northwest.

The United States will take and hold Gaza while Palestinians there move to Jordan and Egypt, President Donald Trump said Tuesday during a meeting with Jordan’s King Abdullah II, doubling down on a plan that would be politically destabilizing for that leader as the president warned Hamas that “all bets are off” if it does not release all remaining hostages by Saturday.

About a week before Elon Musk helped take over the nation’s leading consumer financial watchdog, his social media site, X, unfurled the details of a new payment system that may have drawn federal scrutiny – underscoring the complicated web of personal interests at stake as the world’s richest person advises President Donald Trump on a reconfiguration of the U.S. government.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday that requires federal agencies to work with the U.S. Doge Service to cut their existing workforce and limit future hiring - the most explicit statement yet by the president that he supports “large-scale” cuts to the federal workforce.