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Three teenage boys were driving home from a friends’ house in the early hours of New Year’s Day when they saw a bright orange glow in the distant sky.

WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer announced Monday that fellow New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand would lead the Senate Democratic campaign arm for the 2026 midterm cycle. “Electing more Democrats to the Senate in 2026 is the most important thing we can do to limit the damage of Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans and do more for working families. I have worked side ...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is resigning after more than nine years leading Canada, bowing to sagging approval numbers and a rebellion within his political party.

Soon after Kendra Frome’s plane landed — no incidents and all parts intact, this time — her 3-year-old daughter turned to her with panicked eyes. Amid the shuffle of unsuspecting travelers crowding into the aisles, the girl asked her mom if they were on a Boeing plane. Yes, the mother of three replied. Then another question: “Did the plane break?”

Sports streaming service FuboTV Inc. is set to be merged with Walt Disney Co.'s Hulu live TV service, the companies announced Monday.

William Pope has a bold prediction regarding his upcoming trial on charges that he was part of the mob that breached the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The Kansas man doesn’t believe his scheduled June 2025 trial will take place. Indeed, he expects to be exonerated of the felony and four misdemeanor counts he now stands accused of once President-elect Donald Trump takes office this month..

United Airlines is speeding up its timeline for connecting its fleet to Starlink, Elon Musk’s satellite network that provides high-speed internet around the globe. 

Many of the more than 5,000 media members attending CES in Las Vegas this week got their first glimpse of an automated swimming pool cleaner, a home pizza oven and electric skates Sunday at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center.

Hamas disclosed a list of 34 hostages it’s willing to return to Israel in the first phase of a potential ceasefire in Gaza, which the U.S. wants to achieve before President Joe Biden leaves office in two weeks.

From 1975: The Environmental Protection Agency was proposing stringent new sulfur dioxide emission limits at the Bunker Hill Mining Co.’s smelter in Kellogg.

Spokane’s first generation of successful business leaders left behind a handful of spectacular private homes, such as those owned by Patsy Clark Amasa Campbell and Daniel Corbin.

Standing tall in Spokane’s West Central Neighborhood, the NATIVE Project’s new Children and Youth Services Center is expected to open its doors to patients by the end of February.

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Just before winter break, an excited buzz filled the newsroom (aka the resource classroom) at Evergreen Elementary School as paraeducator Chad Thayer revealed the logo he and the Evergreen Student Voice staff developed together.

Ukrainian forces on Sunday launched a new offensive in the western Russian region of Kursk, following their surprise incursion into the territory last summer.

The Stevens County Sheriff’s Office arrested a man in Chewelah, Washington, over the weekend who allegedly struck a patrol vehicle and attempted to run over a Spokane County deputy last Friday.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Idaho has filed an emergency motion calling on the Idaho Supreme Court to intervene in the state’s new public defense system, which the ACLU called a “disastrous step backward.”

The man who rammed a truck into a crowd on New Year’s Day recorded footage of the area during a bicycle ride through New Orleans’s French Quarter in October, using the same Meta smart glasses he wore as he conducted the attack months later, federal authorities said Sunday.

Some of the deputies hired to fill 10 newly created positions at the Spokane Valley Police Department will be ready to hit the streets in the coming months, but the Spokane Valley City Council will first need to define just what those positions will entail.