Lawmakers in Olympia continue to negotiate if and how WSU could get funding for a pilot program to train nurses to become sexual assault examiners in Eastern Washington.

J.C. Altizer, a rural postal driver, found himself in a terrifying position along his Highway 2 route.

Redfin, in a recent report, indicated Spokane; Las Vegas; Charlotte, North Carolina; and Orlando, Florida, will be the most attractive metros for homebuyers in the next decade because of affordability of land for new construction.

The Spokane area needs more physicians willing to treat patients for opioid use disorder, local providers say, as barriers continue to exist for both patients and prescribers alike.

Soryanna Taylor, of Sacajawea Middle School, has been named the winner of Spokane’s student-designed Wastewater Access cover contest. Taylor’s entry was among 280 submissions for the contest, which was sponsored by the city of Spokane, Spokane Arts, the Lands Council and The Spokesman-Review.

Authorities in South Carolina say a 6-year-old girl who disappeared from her front yard after school was killed by a neighbor who then killed himself

New virus cases in China continue to fall, with 1,749 new infections and 136 new deaths announced after China’s leader said disease prevention and control was at “a critical time.”

Water levels are dropping but more rain is coming for parts of the flood-ravaged South, prolonging the misery in neighborhoods with long cleanups ahead.

Afghanistan’s independent election commission says Ashraf Ghani has won a second term as president, more than four months after polls closed.

Washington could get a new state agency dedicated to reducing gun violence and improving safety, while certain parts needed to build a firearm could require a background check under bills that passed different chambers of the Legislature Tuesday

Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign plans to ask for a partial recount of the Iowa caucus results after the state Democratic Party released results of its recanvass that show Sanders and Pete Buttigieg in an effective tie.

A final chapter in the horrific saga of a Utah woman who vanished about a decade ago and the killings of her young sons in a fiery attack by their father years later began Tuesday with opening statements in a lawsuit against Washington state over the boys’ deaths.

A Washington woman has pleaded not guilty to drugging a mother after authorities say she posed as a photographer in an complex plot to kidnap the mother’s newborn baby.

A nearly 400-year-old painting that had long been attributed to someone in Rembrandt’s workshop has now been judged to have been a work of the Dutch master himself

Viruses have been spreading from animals to humans for many thousands of years, ever since we began to farm with them, live among them, and kill them for food.

Boeing’s latest variant of the jumbo jet has been flying test runs in and out of Spokane International Airport this week.

Spokane Police body camera footage, posted online Sunday, shows how officers interpreted the city’s laws against excessive noise as scores of protesters gathered outside Planned Parenthood last summer.