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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.

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.

Dozens of American students at a U.S. military installation in Germany walked out of their middle school on Tuesday as part of protests aimed at an official visit by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, underscoring the scope of disillusionment with the Trump administration’s crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.

Washington will move forward with several state-funded projects to expand electric vehicle infrastructure after the federal government paused more than $90 million in grants previously appropriated to the state.

Detectives who investigated the Moscow college student homicides found blood at the crime scene from two still-unidentified males, attorneys for the man charged with murder revealed at a recent hearing, hinting to a possible legal defense strategy at trial.

Twenty-seven organizations representing Jewish and Christian-based denominations filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against President Donald Trump’s administration, asking a judge to prevent immigration enforcement actions in houses of worship. As part of the administration’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants, the Department of Homeland Security rescinded a directive that limited federal ...