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A volcano in Hawaii fired fountains of lava some 260 feet into the air in a dramatic eruption on the Big Island, filling its crater with the glowing molten rock.

Tara Benefield, 19, has been living at a Colville homeless camp with her dad since she was 16.

A behavioral health organization is being sued by a Colville motel owner wary of the stabilization services the group plans to move closer to his business through a $2 million state grant.

WASHINGTON – When President-elect Donald Trump takes the helm of the U.S. government in January, he’ll face a more complex world than he did at the start of his first term, but he’ll also have an ally atop the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

From 1974: A daring bank robber – described as a young blond woman – absconded with about $1,000 from the American Commercial Bank in downtown Spokane.

Putting the Christmas Bureau together each year requires months and planning and preparation, hundreds of volunteers – and lots of help from local businesses.

Two men broke into a closed fast food chain restaurant on Francis Avenue, stole roughly $100 worth of food and were arrested about 20 minutes later on Sunday, deputies said.

Last week, the Biden administration approved its overarching plan for how to run California’s systems of pumps, canals and reservoirs that serves millions of people and much of the state’s farmland. The Bureau of Reclamation’s decision Friday ended a four-year effort to overturn the Trump administration’s previous 2019 rules for the Central Valley Project, which environmentalists and the state ...

Spokane’s first season on the pitch, featuring two professional soccer teams, has brought a never-ending series of challenges to the Bellevue-based couple who brought the teams to the Lilac City’s newly minted ONE Spokane Stadium.

A Spokane Valley woman was arrested after attempting to impale her neighbor with a 2-foot “centurion-style sword” as he walked his daughters from their apartment to school Friday morning, deputies said.

While Christmas is a lot of fun, the holiday also leaves you with a lot of trash.

It was one of Shawn Yim’s co-workers who flagged down police in the early hours Saturday about the wanted man sleeping in the back of the bus in downtown Seattle.

While Spokane may not see a very white Christmas this year, those traveling to the west side or Idaho likely will.

Former congressman Matt Gaetz (R-Florida) regularly paid for sex, possessed illegal drugs and paid a 17-year-old girl for sex in 2017, according to a 42-page report released by the House Ethics Committee on Monday on President-elect Donald Trump’s former pick for attorney general.

It’s the repetition of those four notes that’s so insistent, that evokes tinsel and tinkling bells this time of year: Ding, dong, ding-dong. Ding, dong, ding-dong. But it’s the historic repetition of that Ukrainian folk song over centuries - the one Americans know as “Carol of the Bells” that’s especially poignant and heartbreaking for a nation at war.

President Joe Biden on Monday is commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 prisoners on federal death row to life without parole, taking the unprecedented step ahead of the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, whose incoming administration is widely expected to restart executions.