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A development spanning three properties along Baldwin Avenue, near its intersection with Ruby Street, is the site of a planned residential development. Two buildings will host 60 apartment units, according to permits submitted to the city of Spokane.

We don’t need snow flurries to tell us winter has come to the Inland Northwest. We have the arrival of dark-eyed juncos.

Threats by president-elect Donald Trump to impose sweeping new tariffs on the United States' top trading partners is revving up an old trade war that has battled between Washington, Oregon and Idaho foresters and Canada for more than 40 years.

The Christmas Bureau is well known for providing toys and books for families that need a little help with Christmas, but what isn’t as well known is the effort to collect pajamas for the youngest children.

Forty years ago this week, FBI agents raided a safe house on Whidbey Island that led to a standoff with Robert Mathews, the leader of a white supremacist movement born in the Inland Northwest.

The lush wetlands and forested peaks of Idaho’s Silver Valley are hardly a visage of mass contamination.

From 1974: A Boise physician said that children in the Kellogg area might have built up some kind of “an immunity to lead poisoning.”

It was beginning to look a lot like Christmas at Doug and Gail Belanger’s home long before Thanksgiving.

Pompoms in hand, Ilagene Doehring was ready to cheer again – eight decades after she formed the cheerleading squad at Merrill High School in Merrill, Michigan.

The final tally of this year’s presidential election suggests Spokane County voters remain sharply divided, although the polarization may be shifting slightly rather than growing rapidly.

Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili vowed to stay in office and defy the ruling party’s plan to replace her, saying the October parliamentary elections were illegitimate. “There is no legitimate parliament therefore there is no legitimate president or inauguration. This is why I am staying as your president,” Zourabichvili said in televised address on Saturday after a second night of ...

President-elect Donald Trump said Saturday that he planned to replace FBI Director Christopher A. Wray with Kash Patel, a move that would install a staunch loyalist atop an agency Trump has repeatedly criticized.

President-elect Donald Trump’s threat Monday to impose a 25% tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico – one of a barrage of shots fired daily from Mar-a-Lago since his election victory – landed like a bombshell in Ottawa.

Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen and Oscar nominee Hailee Steinfeld announced their engagement Friday, roughly a year-and-a-half after being first romantically linked. The 28-year-old NFL star and “Hawkeye” actress, 27, confirmed the news in a joint Instagram post, revealing they got engaged last week. The couple shared a romantic photo, showing Allen down on one knee in front of a floral ...

John Levin had no idea what he’d stumbled upon at first. About 10 years ago, the collector paid about $100 for a box of wax cylinders at an auction in Pennsylvania coal country. Those cylinders – the oldest commercial medium of recorded music – sat in his house for years until Levin put one of the unlabeled, decaying brown tubes onto his custom player and heard an old country song. Like 133 years old.

In the final days before Romania’s parliamentary elections this weekend, the governing parties’ leaders both quit, pollsters gave up on projecting the results and the nation’s top court cast serious doubt on the integrity of the voting process. And the stakes couldn’t be higher. Sunday’s parliamentary contest pits the pro-European establishment against far-right insurgents and will help to ...