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The Spokane County Medical Examiner has identified the man shot and killed by Spokane Police Department officers at a North Hill apartment complex Sunday evening.

Two Portland men who had been looking for Sasquatch were found dead in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest on Saturday, officials said.

From staff reports

Spokane drivers should exercise caution on their first drive of 2025.

Pullman police Chief Jake Opgenorth is accused of domestic violence and sexual assault by a woman who claimed in a protective order petition filed this month that she had been involved in a relationship with him.

Avista Utilities customers can expect higher bills for electricity for natural gas starting on Wednesday, but the those increases won't be as high as the company had requested.

Though it’s unknown what caused a Jeju Air 737 to crash Sunday at a South Korean airport, investigators appear to be focusing on reports of a bird strike and a possible landing-gear malfunction on the older Boeing airliner.

A federal appeals court Monday upheld a $5 million New York civil trial jury verdict that found Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll.

The timing of President Jimmy Carter’s death on Sunday means U.S. flags will be at half-staff on Trump’s inauguration day next month. Flags are to be flown at half-staff for 30 days from the day of a current or former president’s death “on all buildings, grounds, and naval vessels of the Federal Government in the District of Columbia and throughout the United States and its Territories and possessions,” as codified in the Office of the Federal Register in 1954.

Even as Cubans have been dying because of shortages of medicines and supplies at hospitals, and the government claims it doesn’t have the money to buy them due to U.S. sanctions, companies run by Cuba’s military have stashed away billions of dollars, according to financial records obtained by the Miami Herald.

As the sun rose Monday for the first time in a century without Jimmy Carter, it illuminated flowers and a can of peanuts placed by mourners at the Carter Presidential Center in Atlanta.

A widespread swath of the country, from the northern Rockies to the East Coast, is bracing for a blast of Arctic air that will send temperatures plummeting this week and dropping even further as additional cold air moves in next week,

 Pending sales of US homes increased for a fourth month in November to the highest level since early 2023 as homebuyers gave up hopes for lower borrowing costs.

President-elect Donald Trump offered his “Complete & Total Endorsement” to Speaker Mike Johnson, intervening to ward off a potentially crippling leadership fight in the House that threatened to slow his second-term agenda.

U.S. stock markets will close Jan. 9, in observance of a national day of mourning for former President Jimmy Carter.

Ukraine’s president dispatched his top officials to Syria in a bid to restore ties after the collapse of the pro-Russian Assad regime.