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Known for her spunk and unapologetic “alpha female” energy, University High School junior Bella Jackson-Fleming died unexpectedly on Nov. 11 in her Spokane Valley home. She was 16.

The largest insurance provider in Idaho announced this week that it is seeking a state investigation into how a new hospital in Post Falls is billing its patients by using an arbitration process that it claims has inflated patients' medical costs.

Officials at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center announced Thursday that those seeking heart transplants must go elsewhere. 

Ever heard of euphorbia plants? Of course you have, if you’ve ever purchased a poinsettia this time of year to brighten the house. Euphorbias (pronounced yew-for-bee-a), commonly called spurge, are a genus of plants that one writer described as shape shifters in the garden meaning that they come in many different forms and unique colors. As a genus of over 2,000 species found on every continent except Antarctica, they have adapted to a wide range of habitats and add unusual shapes and colors to garden plantings.

East Adams Rural Healthcare plans to slim down its services to stay open and retain emergency health care in Ritzville.

Before the DNA revolution of the early 2000s, genealogy was a study dependent on records. Tracing a line of heritage could hit a dead end if documentation had gone missing or been destroyed. But as DNA science progressed rapidly through the ’80s, ’90s and 2000s, genetic testing became an affordable, accessible tool to confirm existing genealogical records, or fill in the gaps entirely.

RITZVILLE – Nearly 200 residents packed into a small community meeting room Saturday in hopes of learning how they might save their small town hospital amid allegations of financial fraud from former administrators and lax board oversight.

Bishop Cedrick D. Bridgeforth of the Greater Northwest Episcopal Area of the United Methodist Church has called people to go the “M.I.L.E” with his recent podcast, which shares the stories of how laypeople and individuals in ministry received their callings.