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Spokane prepares to build new affordable housing units with library access for both refugee and public

Spokane is one step closer to seeing $10 million in affordable housing units for refugees and the general public by 2025, without the use of tax dollars.

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Police arrest man suspected of DUI after crashing into South Hill home

Spokane Fire asking for information on arson in Emerson Garfield neighborhood
Prisoner who escaped from Boise hospital enters court plea. Will he face a jury?
Riverside Elementary paraeducator accused of sex crimes against children faces additional federal charges

Spokane Valley Councilman Al Merkel believes his Latino heritage may be factor in reception at city hall

Boeing at risk of prosecution for breaking deal over crashes

Supreme Court rejects payday lenders’ challenge to Obama-era consumer protection bureau

Updated 7:38 p.m.

Cohen, Trump’s lawyer match wits in crucial cross-examination

Updated 34 minutes ago

In talks with Putin amid Ukraine war, Xi calls Russia-China ties a ‘strong driving force’

Navy jet noise could mean long-term health impacts for Washington’s Whidbey Island

Updated 40 minutes ago

Prisoner who escaped from Boise hospital enters court plea. Will he face a jury?

Updated 4:12 p.m.

One Bob to rule them all: Two of the three candidates for governor named Bob Ferguson drop out of Washington’s race

Traditional Republicans flood May ballot for control of Kootenai County GOP

Moses Lake School District cuts 100 teachers after $11 million budget error

Several UW buildings vandalized in what campus official calls ‘major escalation’

Actor Sean Astin returns to Spokane to advocate for mental health, following mother Patty Duke’s lead: ‘That was her superpower’

Harrington hairdresser continues her father’s legacy through annual car show at the Studebaker Garage

Locks of Beethoven’s hair offer new clues to the mystery of his deafness

Navy jet noise could mean long-term health impacts for Washington’s Whidbey Island

Updated 40 minutes ago

Hurricane season starts in two weeks: Why you should pay attention and prepare

Front Porch: Each year graduates offer a ray of hope for the future

History

50 years ago in Expo history: The ‘carnival-like atmosphere’ of downtown Spokane impressed as much as the fair itself

Faith and Values: Pecking order: A bantam hen’s lesson in patience

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News > Nation/World

At least four dead as storms batter Houston area

UPDATED: Thu., May 16, 2024

Four people were killed and more than 1 million people were without power as intense thunderstorms swept through Texas on Thursday evening, bringing heavy rain, destructive winds and dangerous flooding to central and southeast portions of the state that had already flooded this month.

News > Nation/World

U.S.: North Koreans posed as tech workers to fund weapons

UPDATED: Thu., May 16, 2024

Posing as Americans, North Korean technology workers secured remote work contracts with hundreds of U.S. companies as part of a scheme to help fund Pyongyang’s illicit nuclear weapons and missile programs, the U.S. government said on Thursday.

News > Crime/Public Safety

Former Spokane bull rider accused of killing Providence nurse is declared unfit to stand trial

UPDATED: Thu., May 16, 2024

A former Spokane bull rider accused of killing his grandmother’s nurse because he thought the nurse was responsible for the 9/11 terrorist attacks is unfit to stand trial, court records show.

News > Further Review

Brown v. Board of Education at 70: How the landmark court case changed America by changing its classrooms

Thu., May 16, 2024

Seventy years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that segregation in schools had to end — but with no deadline, it would take until 2016 for the last U.S. school to desegregate

News > Crime/Public Safety

Downtown Spokane rainbow intersection defaced again, this time with fire

UPDATED: Thu., May 16, 2024

Vandals have defaced a downtown street mural recognizing Spokane’s LGBTQ community by pouring a flammable liquid on the road and setting it on fire, according to a news release.

News > WA Government

Thousands of free opioid overdose reversal kits headed to Washington

UPDATED: Thu., May 16, 2024

State residents can order a naloxone kit at no cost with free shipping through the Department of Health's new mail-order program.

News > Spokane

NASA astronaut, King Cole’s children to be featured in Saturday’s Lilac Festival parade

UPDATED: Thu., May 16, 2024

A NASA astronaut, children of Expo ’74 visionary King Cole and, of course, the royal court will grace the streets of downtown Spokane on Saturday night as thousands take in the city’s largest parade.

News > Nation/World

Biden asserts executive privilege in fight over recording of special counsel interview

UPDATED: Thu., May 16, 2024

President Joe Biden has asserted executive privilege to deny House Republicans access to recordings of his interview with a special counsel investigating his handling of government documents, denouncing their effort as a political stunt with dire implications for federal law enforcement.

News > Nation/World

Abbott grants Daniel Perry pardon in murder of Black Lives Matter protester

UPDATED: Thu., May 16, 2024

Republican Gov. Greg Abbott said Thursday that he was pardoning Daniel Perry, the former Army sergeant convicted in the fatal shooting of a protester during a Black Lives Matter march, after a review board recommended he be released from prison.

News > Idaho

Sandpoint farmer wins $2 million on Powerball

UPDATED: Thu., May 16, 2024

When the fuel pump on Nathan Wood’s truck started making strange noises last week, he pulled into the nearest gas station, Arnie’s Payless Gas on Highway 200 in Kootenai, Idaho, to see what the trouble might be. Since he was already there, Wood purchased a few lottery tickets.

News > Transportation

Bye bye benches: city of Spokane blocks off seating on Monroe Street bridge as part of safety improvement project

UPDATED: Thu., May 16, 2024

The city of Spokane has all but done away with the benches on the Monroe Street bridge.

News > Nation/World

U.S. military says Gaza pier is anchored, aid deliveries set to begin

UPDATED: Thu., May 16, 2024

The U.S. military said Thursday that its floating pier had been anchored to the Gaza shoreline and promised that humanitarian deliveries to the war-ravaged territory would begin “within days,” after delays and amid objections from critics who fear that the operation, directed by President Biden, will leave those involved vulnerable to attack.

News > Business

The Dirt: Spokane County adding new office building

UPDATED: Thu., May 16, 2024

Spokane County is seeking a building permit from the city to build a new Operations Building at 1303 N. Cedar St., which is on a block of buildings that had been used as an asbestos plant.

News > Nation/World

In talks with Putin amid Ukraine war, Xi calls Russia-China ties a ‘strong driving force’

UPDATED: Thu., May 16, 2024

Russian President Vladimir Putin and China's Xi Jinping put their countries' partnership on red-carpet display in Beijing on Thursday, aiming to project a unified alternative to the West as each faces pressure amid Moscow's war on Ukraine.

News > Nation/World

Cohen, Trump’s lawyer match wits in crucial cross-examination

UPDATED: Thu., May 16, 2024

Donald Trump's lawyers on Thursday took their best shot at Michael Cohen, the star witness in the former president's criminal trial in Manhattan, grilling Cohen about a medley of misrepresentations, manipulations and outright lies.

News > Crime/Public Safety

Spokane police receive nearly $120,000 for sale of home used in drug-trafficking

UPDATED: Thu., May 16, 2024

The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday gave the Spokane Police Department nearly $120,000 gained from the forfeiture of a drug-trafficking house in the East Central Neighborhood.

News > Nation/World

Record heat hits Florida, where DeSantis scrubbed ‘climate change’ from state laws

UPDATED: Thu., May 16, 2024

Scorching temperatures set numerous records across South Florida on Wednesday, and historically hot conditions for mid-May will persist through the weekend.

News > Nation/World

David Copperfield denies 16 women’s ‘entirely implausible’ sexual misconduct allegations

UPDATED: Thu., May 16, 2024

Attorneys for famed illusionist David Copperfield have denied accusations made by 16 women in a new report alleging decades-spanning sexual misconduct and inappropriate behavior.

News > Business

Dow Average makes history to hit the 40,000 mark

UPDATED: Thu., May 16, 2024

The stock market headed toward fresh all-time highs, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average hitting the historic 40,000 mark to extend an advance that’s been fueled by bets the Federal Reserve will be able to cut rates this year.

News > Business

Supreme Court rejects payday lenders’ challenge to Obama-era consumer protection bureau

UPDATED: Thu., May 16, 2024

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the U.S. consumer protection agency that was created under President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats to protect Americans from financial scams. By a 7-2 vote, the justices rejected a constitutional claim brought by a coalition of payday lenders who had won before a panel of three Donald Trump appointees on the 5th Circuit Court of ...

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