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Spokane Salvation Army asks for community support as donations fall $57,000 short

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As the countdown to Christmas winds down, the Salvation Army of Spokane is asking for the public’s help.

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73-year-old Colville man suspected of 1997 double homicide held without bail

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Spokane County examining contract proposals to provide medical care in jail

Spokane County Sheriff's Office to use AI to review body camera footage in effort to improve training practices
Washington electors in Electoral College cast votes for Harris, although some want new system
Spokane moving forward with $500,000 settlement with fiancée of man killed by police

Spokane International Airport adds Chicago flight

Party City is going out of business, closing all stores

Trump stuns Washington with push to repeal debt ceiling

Musk expresses support for far-right party in Germany’s election

Charges offer look at how prolific King County graffiti taggers operate

Snowman interaction results in fall, Coeur d’Alene Police interview

Congress veering toward government shutdown after Trump, Musk sink bipartisan funding bill

Bonner County Sheriff temporarily resigns to claim retirement benefits

LC senior named finalist in nationwide academic honor

Spokane Public Schools poised to buy new administration building, school space from Community Colleges of Spokane Foundation

Spokane’s unique location and weather can contribute to seasonal depression. Here’s how to fight it

Two killed when tree falls on truck on U.S. 2 near airport exit

Boeing Starliner crew’s long-awaited return delayed to March

Tom Cruise receives the Navy’s highest civilian honor

Spokane’s unique location and weather can contribute to seasonal depression. Here’s how to fight it

This day in history: Caretaker at Spokane cemetery nearly died in frigid cold snap

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This day in history: Caretaker at Spokane cemetery nearly died in frigid cold snap

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Christ Church’s growing influence and ties to Christian nationalism spur packed Moscow meeting

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News > Higher education

After UI’s diversity centers closed, one student artist left a thank you

Sat., Dec. 21, 2024

When University of Idaho student Melanie Velazco Curiel presented her steel sculptures to students and faculty for her thesis, which honored the diversity and inclusion centers that shaped her college years, she had no idea she was about to walk into a meeting an hour later where the school’s president announce the centers were being closed.

News > Spokane

This day in history: Caretaker at Spokane cemetery nearly died in frigid cold snap

Sat., Dec. 21, 2024

News > Family

Spokane Salvation Army asks for community support as donations fall $57,000 short

Sat., Dec. 21, 2024

As the countdown to Christmas winds down, the Salvation Army of Spokane is asking for the public’s help.

News > World

Eastern WA company admits selling juice from moldy, putrid concentrate for school lunches

UPDATED: Fri., Dec. 20, 2024

Dec. 19—A closed Sunnyside company that sold juice for school lunch programs and its owner have pleaded guilty to charges stemming from inspections that found filthy, putrid and decomposing juice products, according to documents filed in U.S. District Court in Eastern Washington. Food and Drug Administration inspections of facilities owned by Valley Processing in 2018 found visible mold, ...

News > Nation/World

In late push, Senate Democrats narrowly top Trump on judicial confirmations

UPDATED: Fri., Dec. 20, 2024

The Senate confirmed on Friday the 235th lifetime federal judge nominated by President Joe Biden, topping the four-year record set during the first Trump administration by a single judge in a drive that significantly reshaped the federal courts to be more ethnically and professionally diverse.

News > Pacific NW

Seattle venture capitalist Nick Hanauer rips Inslee wealth tax

UPDATED: Fri., Dec. 20, 2024

Dec. 20—Gov. Jay Inslee's "wealth tax" proposal is drawing fire from a usual Democratic political ally — Seattle venture capitalist Nick Hanauer. Hanauer, a politically influential progressive who generally supports taxing the rich (including himself), torched Inslee's proposal as an unserious and "boneheaded" distraction in a series of social media posts on X on Thursday. "This proposal is ...

News > Washington

Seattle venture capitalist Nick Hanauer rips Inslee wealth tax

UPDATED: Fri., Dec. 20, 2024

Gov. Jay Inslee’s “wealth tax” proposal is drawing fire from a usual Democratic political ally – Seattle venture capitalist Nick Hanauer.

News > Washington

Aerial drones helpful in removing graffiti along WA highways, agency says

UPDATED: Fri., Dec. 20, 2024

Using aerial drones to spray paint over graffiti along state highways is “very effective,” according to a new report from Washington’s Department of Transportation.

News > Nation/World

Biden administration weighs putting up roadblocks to Trump’s deportation campaign

UPDATED: Fri., Dec. 20, 2024

The Biden administration is considering extending protections for hundreds of thousands of immigrants whose status in the United States is set to expire in the first months of the Trump administration, according to U.S. officials and documents viewed by the New York Times.

News > Nation/World

House passes bill to avert shutdown with hours to spare

UPDATED: Fri., Dec. 20, 2024

The House on Friday approved legislation to avert a federal shutdown that was just hours away, with lawmakers extending funding into mid-March and approving $100 billion in disaster relief for parts of the nation still reeling from storms. The Senate was expected to quickly follow suit.

News > Crime/Public Safety

Spokane hockey games this weekend to benefit 5-year-old girl killed in crash

UPDATED: Fri., Dec. 20, 2024

The Spokane hockey community will wrap its arms this weekend around a family that lost a 5-year-old girl in a car crash one month ago in North Idaho.

News > Nation/World

Weight loss drugs changed their lives, but then they lost coverage

UPDATED: Fri., Dec. 20, 2024

The letter came in June. Mindy McCormick, 67, read that her insurer would soon stop covering the weight loss drug Wegovy, which she had been taking for more than two years.

News > Idaho

Idaho population surpassed 2 million this year

UPDATED: Fri., Dec. 20, 2024

The Gem State keeps packing them in as it surpassed 2 million people in 2024. For perspective, the state had 1.14 million in 1994.

News > Nation/World

Driver rams Christmas market in Germany, killing at least two in suspected attack

UPDATED: Fri., Dec. 20, 2024

A driver plowed a vehicle into a Christmas market in the city of Magdeburg in central Germany on Friday evening, killing at least two people -- an adult and a small child -- and injuring dozens of others, in what officials indicated was a targeted attack.

News > Crime/Public Safety

73-year-old Colville man suspected of 1997 double homicide held without bail

UPDATED: Fri., Dec. 20, 2024

A 73-year-old Colville man accused of killing a Stevens County woman and her young daughter in 1997 will be held in jail without bail after a prosecutor said the man has a prior murder conviction in Oregon and would be at risk to flee and harm witnesses if released.

News > Pacific NW

Federal gov. approves $50 million to start PNW high speed rail. Here’s what it means for WA

UPDATED: Fri., Dec. 20, 2024

Dec. 20—The Federal Railroad Administration, a branch of the U.S. Department of Transportation, has awarded $49.7 to support the proposed high-speed train across the Pacific Northwest, a group of Washington legislators announced in a press release on Wednesday, Dec. 18. The long-discussed rail project would provide train service between Portland, Oregon, Seattle, and Vancouver, British ...

News > Nation/World

Indiana man sentenced to 130 years for killing two teenage girls

UPDATED: Fri., Dec. 20, 2024

An Indiana judge has sentenced a man to 130 years in prison for the killings of two teenage girls in 2017 that became known among true-crime followers as the Delphi Murders. It was the maximum sentence for the charges he faced.

News > Nation/World

Musk expresses support for far-right party in Germany’s election

UPDATED: Fri., Dec. 20, 2024

Elon Musk, the world's richest man and a close adviser to President-elect Donald Trump, on Friday endorsed Germany's far-right party, a group with ties to neo-Nazis whose youth wing has been classified as "confirmed extremist" by German domestic intelligence.

News > National business

Party City is going out of business, closing all stores

UPDATED: Fri., Dec. 20, 2024

Party City is shuttering all stores, ending a nearly 40-year run.

News > Higher education

4,000 previous Eastern Washington University employees’ personal information compromised

UPDATED: Fri., Dec. 20, 2024

On Dec. 2, Eastern Washington University officials found that 4,000 previous student employee and temporary employee records were accessed by an “unauthorized individual,” according to a news release.

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