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Pasco bus driver stabbed while kids on board, police say

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 24, 2021

PASCO, Wash. -- A school bus driver was stabbed at Longfellow Elementary in Pasco on Friday afternoon, KNDO-TV reported.

News > Crime/Public Safety

Missing Lummi Nation woman found alive, relatives and police say

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 24, 2021

A Lummi Nation woman who had been missing since Sept. 3 has been found alive, according to her aunt and one of her friends.

News > K-12 education

COVID-19 numbers continue to soar in some local schools

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 24, 2021

The COVID-19 surge shows no signs of slowing in local schools.

News > Washington

Tribe wins major step toward resuming whaling off Washington

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 24, 2021

SEATTLE – An administrative law judge has recommended that a Native American tribe in Washington state once again be allowed to hunt gray whales – a major step in its decades-long effort to resume the ancient practice.

News > K-12 education

Shoes, notes left outside Spokane Public Schools building in protest of state vaccine mandate

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 24, 2021

Fifty-one pairs of shoes and 59 notes asking for a halt to the state’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate in the name of medical freedom were placed outside the Spokane Public Schools building in downtown Spokane Friday.

News > Crime/Public Safety

Firefighters quickly extinguish fire at apartment building where neighbor reported mental health crisis

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 24, 2021

Firefighters on Friday quickly extinguished a kitchen fire at a downtown Spokane apartment building, where one resident said her neighbor has been experiencing a mental health crisis all week and she tried to get him help.

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Washington state revenues up nearly $1 billion

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 24, 2021

OLYMPIA — Washington state's economy is projected to have nearly $1 billion more than previously assumed through mid-2023.

News > Pacific NW

Former Washington state employee charged with stealing unemployment funds, plus bribery and extortion

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 24, 2021

A former employee with the state Employment Security Department was arrested Friday and charged with defrauding the government of at least $360,000 in jobless benefits, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Seattle said Friday.

News > Health

COVID outbreaks at long-term care facilities are still sickening people in the Inland Northwest

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 24, 2021

Outbreaks of COVID-19 in long-term care facilities increased in the past month with the surge of the more transmissible delta variant in Washington state.

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Anti-mask disruption halts council meeting in Walla Walla

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 24, 2021

WALLA WALLA — A day after a school board meeting in Walla Walla was halted because of a person protesting COVID-19 mask requirements, a council meeting was shut down there by a large anti-mask crowd.

News > Spokane

Woodward to propose six-month transition period for utility payments in Spokane

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 24, 2021

Spokane Mayor Nadine Woodward on Monday will propose six more months of a pause on city utility shutoffs.

News > Crime/Public Safety

Woman who drowned in pool at Spokane hotel identified

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 24, 2021

A woman who drowned at a Spokane hotel pool Tuesday has been identified.

News > Crime/Public Safety

Richland man who was extradited from Kazakhstan pleads guilty to child pornography charge

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 24, 2021

Trent Drexel Howard, 50, is in custody of the Benton County Jail pending a sentencing hearing in January. The U.S. Attorney's Office of Eastern Washington said his extradition in 2020 is the first from Kazakhstan by the United States.

Opinion > Column

100 years ago in Spokane: The 10-year-old twins last seen with a boy who drowned had differing stories from that day

Fri., Sept. 24, 2021

George Bafaro, one of the 10-year-old twins who was with William McLachlan, 8, when he drowned, changed his story in an interview with a Spokane Daily Chronicle reporter.

News > Crime/Public Safety

As hate crimes rise nationally, so do Spokane’s community efforts to identify and eradicate them

Fri., Sept. 24, 2021

On Feb. 8, at around 9 a.m., Spokane police officers were called to Temple Beth Shalom, a South Hill synagogue serving Eastern Washington, North Idaho and southern British Columbia.

News > Health

Washington leaders try to shore up hospital staffing shortages with federal requests

UPDATED: Thu., Sept. 23, 2021

State health officials are asking for backup for Washington’s fatigued health care workers.

News > Crime/Public Safety

Surveillance footage shows man killed at Spokane Valley Hotel in confrontation with shooter

UPDATED: Thu., Sept. 23, 2021

Surveillance footage captured the confrontation and shooting that left one man dead in the parking lot of a Spokane Valley hotel last weekend, according to a search warrant filed Thursday.

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Fourth murder hornet nest destroyed in northwestern Washington

UPDATED: Thu., Sept. 23, 2021

BLAINE, Wash. — Another nest built by Asian giant hornets north of Seattle close to the Canada border has been destroyed, according to state officials.

News > Crime/Public Safety

Woman beaten downtown released from hospital as witnesses, family share new details in attack

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 24, 2021

The woman who was brutally beaten in downtown Spokane on Tuesday has been released from the hospital as the man accused of attacking her made his first appearance in court.

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Hate crime against gay man from Cameroon case dismissed

UPDATED: Thu., Sept. 23, 2021

SEATTLE — A hate crime case in Seattle involving a gay man from Cameroon has been dismissed and the people charged say they were blindsided by the arrests.

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Pasco bus driver stabbed while kids on board, police say

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Tribe wins major step toward resuming whaling off Washington

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Washington state revenues up nearly $1 billion

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