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Hamas released three more Israeli hostages on Saturday -- noticeably thinner and paler after 16 months in captivity -- in a ceremony replete with some of the group's typical propaganda but slightly toned down compared with recent weeks.

Many bottled cleaners and potions wear labels boasting about their natural ingredients and green bona fides. But you may already have an earth-friendly cleaner in your kitchen fruit bowl: a lemon, lime or orange.

Last fall I traveled with my wife across the U.S. We arrived in Los Angeles and a few hours later got to hold our newest granddaughter. It was magical, to say the least.

Adam Youngs is looking to make a lot from truckloads of the little red cent.

It’s a wonder how Walter the deer made it to the New Year.

From 1975: Sen. Henry M. “Scoop” Jackson arrived in Spokane to campaign for president and described himself as “a candidate in the progressive center.”

A 31-year-old Spokane Valley man was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for child sexual abuse charges.

Thousands of employees with the U.S. Forest Service were fired this week as part of the Trump Administration's efforts to cut the federal workforce.

Vice President JD Vance on Friday urged European leaders to end the isolation of far-right parties across the continent, an extraordinary embrace of a once-fringe political movement with which the Trump administration shares a common approach on migration, identity and internet speech.

Two of the four people who died in a head-on crash involving a charter bus Sunday on state Route 28 east of Wenatchee were from the Spokane area.

A second federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump’s order aimed at stopping medical institutions from providing gender-affirming care to those under 19 years old.

An Eastern District of Washington federal prosecutor and adjunct professor at Gonzaga University School of Law is now the acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington following the resignation of Vanessa R. Waldref, who served the position since 2021.

One person was shot early Friday morning in Post Falls, and no arrests have been made in what police called a “complex investigation.”

The crew of an Army Black Hawk helicopter might not have heard key instructions from air traffic control before a collision with a passenger jet over the Potomac River on Jan. 29, the National Transportation Safety Board said Friday in its most detailed account of the moments before the crash that killed 67 people.

Allies of Elon Musk's stationed within the Education Department are considering replacing some contract workers who interact with millions of students and parents annually with an artificial intelligence chatbot, according to internal department documents and communications.