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SANDPOINT – After a three-month vacation and rehab, Lake Pend Oreille’s human-sized Statue of Liberty is back in place with a fresh sheen and ready for photo ops.

Janet Betts’ friend had come over for a visit, but she was out of sorts.

Lingering ill will among House Republicans after another messy spending fight could complicate Speaker Mike Johnson’s bid to retain the House gavel — and potentially the Jan. 6 formalizing of Donald Trump’s election victory.

From 1974: A Christmas Eve snowfall made for a white Christmas in Spokane.

Christmas has arrived, and thanks to the efforts of thousands of donors and volunteers, it is a bright day for many children in the area.

A jury on Monday found Seattle Children’s hospital created a hostile work environment based on race against Dr. Benjamin Danielson, the former medical director of the hospital’s Odessa Brown Children’s Clinic.

She is the mother orca who captured the world’s attention by carrying her dead calf for 17 days and 1,000 miles. But now, there’s a new baby by her side — a symbol of hope in this, our own season of renewal.

Hanford Guards Union Local 21 is asking a federal court for an injunction to halt a month-long lockout and prevent its members from losing their security clearances and certifications they need to do their jobs.

An email intended to remain private reveals nine new or higher taxes state Senate Democrats are considering before the 2025 legislative session — plus a couple possible tax cuts.

Dec. 24—Four cougars. Four bobcats. Two lynx. Even a Bengal tiger. Bird flu has taken a terrible toll at the Wild Felid Advocacy Center, a sanctuary for wildcats and their hybrids on Harstine Island, killing 20 cats — half the animals in its care. "The only thing I can compare it to, as a veteran, is being in a war zone," director Mark Mathews said in an interview Tuesday. The sanctuary is ...

When she was a teenager, Elizabeth Ford, of Purcellville, Virginia, made a promise to herself: never be homeless and hungry again.

Union organizers have called an end to a five-day strike against Amazon by about 100 Atlanta drivers who joined workers at hundreds of other locations around the country. 

More than two years after the U.S. Supreme Court fundamentally expanded its interpretation of the Second Amendment, federal courts throughout the country continue to strike down state restrictions on gun ownership.

Kimberly Williams took her three daughters to the mall for some last-minute Christmas shopping this week and ended up buying a week’s worth of showers and emergency food for a person living on the street, pots and pans for a once-homeless person moving into their own place, and a blanket and binky for a newborn baby. The unplanned purchases were made at the Altamonte Mall in Altamonte Springs, ...

Those venturing through the Spokane rain on Christmas Eve were all on some sort of mission.