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The bill would allow officers to pursue if there is reasonable suspicion that a person in the vehicle has committed a violent offense, a sex offense, a vehicular assault offense, a domestic violence offense, an escape or driving under the influence. 

COLFAX – A new policy by a major health insurer requiring patients to refill their prescriptions through the mail threatens independent pharmacies and presents a hardship for rural residents.

WASHINGTON – In a hearing on Wednesday in the border town of McAllen, Texas, the Spokane Republican who chairs the House Energy and Commerce Committee blamed President Joe Biden for the public health crisis caused by fentanyl smuggled into the United States from Mexico while Democrats accused GOP lawmakers of using the crisis for political gain.

A bill sponsored by Rep. Joel Kretz, R-Wauconda, would create a space on the Olympia campus to commemorate Eastern Washington, specifically its trees. 

WASHINGTON – After the U.S. military shot down a Chinese surveillance balloon and three other flying objects in just over a week, an Idaho senator who has been briefed on the incidents said Wednesday that President Joe Biden should tell the nation everything he can about the unprecedented series of events.

The Department of Commerce did not give a reason for why Brown was stepping down. Brown has been a top possible choice to run for mayor of Spokane this year, though she has not said officially yet whether she is running.

After cutting off its supplies to over 80 food banks late last year due to food shortages, the Inland Northwest’s largest food bank distributor has resumed deliveries across the region.

WASHINGTON – The company behind a new Department of Veterans Affairs computer system that has harmed Inland Northwest patients since Spokane became its testing ground in 2020 is pushing back after House Republicans introduced two bills that would either freeze the system’s further rollout or scrap it altogether.

The Democratic National Committee last week approved changes to the 2024 Democratic presidential primary calendar, switching up which states get the first few primary dates. Under the new plan, South Carolina will hold the first primary on Feb. 3, followed by New Hampshire and Nevada on Feb. 6. Georgia would hold theirs next on Feb. 13, followed by Michigan on Feb. 27. 

Each week, The Spokesman-Review examines one question from the Naturalization Test immigrants must pass to become United States citizens.

Alongside airplane-sized tractors and combine harvesters on display inside the Spokane Convention Center this week was a smaller technology with many creative uses: drones.

The bill, sponsored by Sen. June Robinson, D-Everett, has 15 co-sponsors, including Law and Justice Chair Sen. Manka Dhingra, D-Redmond, and Senate Majority Leader Andy Billig, D-Spokane. It will now head to the Ways and Means Committee for further discussion. 

WASHINGTON – A Southwest Airlines executive apologized Thursday during a Senate hearing for the December meltdown that disrupted holiday travel for some 2 million people.

The bill would incentivize fuel producers to build alternative fuel production facilities in Washington by creating a preferential  business and operations tax rate of 0.275% for the manufacture and sale of sustainable aviation fuels.

Prices could plateau at the grocery store.

The bill, sponsored by Olympia Democrat Rep. Jessica Bateman would require cities to expand what types of housing can be built on residential lots. 

WASHINGTON – In a State of the Union address that sought to balance optimism with realism, President Joe Biden on Tuesday told a joint session of Congress the U.S. economy is emerging stronger from the coronavirus pandemic, but he urged lawmakers to help ensure the economy of the future doesn’t leave Americans behind.

Expect less precipitation and close to average temperatures as global weather patterns shift to an El Niño warming cycle this year, a weather expert told farmers Tuesday morning during the Spokane Ag Show.

A Canadian mining company says it found an estimated $3 billion gold deposit near Republic, Washington, a historic mining community that lost its last working mine about five years ago.