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Wallace gunman ‘wasn’t a monster,’ but a traumatized veteran, friend says

Updated 9:51 p.m.

WALLACE – What’s left of the post-Christmas day tragedy in Wallace is visible outside the Shoshone County Sheriff’s Office lobby: crime scene tape that barricaded the sheriff’s office after a shooting there, now frayed and collapsing onto the cold sidewalk.

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‘He’s going to get judgment’: Man linked to two Spokane killings dies on parole in Boise

Updated 9:35 p.m.

Local Government

SCRAPS pauses dog adoptions, intakes following deaths tied to Parvo outbreak

Updated 9:35 p.m.

Local Business

‘We love our community’: Cheney refillery brings sustainable options to locals

National Business

Warner Bros likely to reject Paramount’s latest hostile bid, source says

Nation

Measles cases in South Carolina rise by 20 to 176, state health department says

World

European leaders discuss Ukraine as Russia ‘toughens’ stance

Updated 8:32 p.m.

Washington

Difference Maker: ‘Saint Bette’ is the guiding force for the Mead Food Bank and an inspiration to students

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Idaho

‘He’s going to get judgment’: Man linked to two Spokane killings dies on parole in Boise

Updated 9:35 p.m.

WA Government

Gov. Ferguson requests $11 million for design of new Spokane Veterans home

ID Government

Ballot questions on abortion in Missouri, Idaho likely to spur more legal fights

Education: K-12

Coeur d’Alene area Catholic teens flock to youth group in record numbers

Higher Education

A couple in northeast Washington spent 30 years restoring a neglected tree farm. Last month, they donated it for research

Health

Washington awarded $181 million from federal rural health fund from ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’

Transportation

Getting There: Preconstruction work redoubles next year for Division Street rapid bus route, slated for 2030 launch

Science & Tech

Alaska Air’s year of expansion will bring the world closer to Seattle

Military

Gov. Ferguson requests $11 million for design of new Spokane Veterans home

Weather

Brief snow blast allows Mt. Spokane to open amid historically ‘mellow winter’

Columnists

Front Porch: Readers share favorite holiday films

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History

This day in history: Marijuana should be legalized, said North Idaho Medical Association in 1975. Spokane economy booming as 1925 came to close

12:15 a.m.

Religion

Braver Angels trains Washington residents to bridge political divide

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News > Spokane

Difference Maker: ‘Saint Bette’ is the guiding force for the Mead Food Bank and an inspiration to students

Wed., Dec. 31, 2025

Bette Monahan’s left wrist is heavy.

News > Spokane

This day in history: Marijuana should be legalized, said North Idaho Medical Association in 1975. Spokane economy booming as 1925 came to close

Wed., Dec. 31, 2025

From 1975: The North Idaho Medical Association went on record as advocating the legalization of marijuana.

News > Nation

Defense panels still not clear on Golden Dome’s attributes

UPDATED: Tue., Dec. 30, 2025

WASHINGTON – Seven months after President Donald Trump announced plans for a Golden Dome missile shield for America, lawmakers who oversee the Pentagon say they have yet to learn meaningful information about the system’s attributes, cost or schedule.

News > Local Government

SCRAPS pauses dog adoptions, intakes following deaths tied to Parvo outbreak

UPDATED: Tue., Dec. 30, 2025

Four dogs within the Spokane County Regional Animal Protection shelter have died this month as the agency contends with an outbreak of a highly contagious virus circulating among its adult dog population.

News > Nation

U.S. government audits cases of Somali U.S. citizens for potential denaturalization

UPDATED: Tue., Dec. 30, 2025

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump's administration said on Tuesday it was auditing immigration cases involving U.S. citizens of Somali origin to detect fraud that could lead to denaturalization, or revocation of citizenship.

News > Health

People’s Pharmacy: Will your brain do better on brie?

UPDATED: Tue., Dec. 30, 2025

Are we finally revising our ideas on the role of fat in the diet? We’ve complained before that demonizing saturated fat is not supported by sound science. According to a recent analysis, avoiding saturated fat might help only people at the highest risk (Annals of Internal Medicine, Dec. 16, 2025).

News > Crime/Public Safety

Wallace gunman ‘wasn’t a monster,’ but a traumatized veteran, friend says

UPDATED: Tue., Dec. 30, 2025

News > Nation/World

Analysis: Trump’s new Venezuela escalation raises questions on next steps

UPDATED: Tue., Dec. 30, 2025

President Donald Trump’s unusual decision to reveal a covert U.S. strike against what he said was a drug-trafficking facility in Venezuela marked a new escalation in his pressure campaign against the regime of Nicolás Maduro, raising new questions about how far Trump is willing to go. Trump, who’s repeatedly threatened to expand his campaign of air strikes on drug vessels at sea to Venezuelan ...

News > Crime/Public Safety

‘He’s going to get judgment’: Man linked to two Spokane killings dies on parole in Boise

UPDATED: Tue., Dec. 30, 2025

Some unnamed recipients will soon receive the transplanted liver and kidneys from a double killing suspect from Spokane.

News > Spokane

What are you doing New Year’s Eve? Fireworks will mark celebration in Spokane

UPDATED: Tue., Dec. 30, 2025

Spokane is welcoming the new year with a bang.

News > Idaho

Nearly 3,000 pounds of Idaho ground beef recalled. Here’s what we know

UPDATED: Tue., Dec. 30, 2025

Those wanting to add some protein to their favorite dish this New Year’s Day should double-check their labels after food safety officials warned that products from an Idaho meat distributor could cause food poisoning.

News > National business

Alaska Air’s year of expansion will bring the world closer to Seattle

UPDATED: Tue., Dec. 30, 2025

Last December, Alaska Air Group executive Ryan St. John said the SeaTac-headquartered airline had reached an “inflection point” in its 90-plus-year history. Alaska had recently completed its $1.9 billion acquisition of Hawaiian Airlines, the second time the company had bought another mainline air carrier in less than a decade.

News > World

MSF expects to be barred from Gaza after missing Israel deadline

UPDATED: Tue., Dec. 30, 2025

Medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières expects to be barred from operating in Gaza once it misses Wednesday’s deadline to comply with new registration rules for relief agencies that Israel says are meant to prevent Hamas from exploiting international aid.

News > Health

Washington awarded $181 million from federal rural health fund from ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’

UPDATED: Tue., Dec. 30, 2025

The federal allocation to Washington for rural health care appears to have been trimmed because it has not implemented some of President Donald Trump’s goals.

News > Idaho

Boise Airport hangar collapse case yields settlements for victims’ families

UPDATED: Tue., Dec. 30, 2025

The families of two construction workers killed when an unfinished private plane hangar collapsed at the Boise Airport nearly two years ago settled a wrongful death lawsuit against two Idaho companies involved in the project. The terms of the agreements are confidential, attorneys for the families and the project’s general contractor separately told the Idaho Statesman. In a related action, ...

News > Nation

Tatiana Schlossberg, journalist and granddaughter of JFK, dies at 35

UPDATED: Tue., Dec. 30, 2025

Tatiana Schlossberg, a journalist who told stories of the changing climate and the ways humans can help protect the environment, and whose terminal illness and position in the Kennedy family thrust her into the national spotlight late in life, died Dec. 30. She was 35.

News > Spokane

Downtown Spokane Partnership celebrates 30th anniversary with monthly paint competitions

UPDATED: Tue., Dec. 30, 2025

This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Downtown Spokane Partnership. To celebrate, the DSP is launching a series of creative events called the First Friday Face-Offs.

News > World

European leaders discuss Ukraine as Russia ‘toughens’ stance

UPDATED: Tue., Dec. 30, 2025

European leaders held a call to discuss Ukraine after Russia said it would revise its negotiating position, claiming Ukrainian drones targeted a residence of President Vladimir Putin. “Our work to ensure robust security guarantees continues unabated,” Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof said Tuesday in a post on X. He said that Kyiv’s allies in the so-called Coalition of the Willing would convene ...

News > World

As Russia’s war grinds on, its society is fraying

UPDATED: Tue., Dec. 30, 2025

The bus from the front lines ground to a halt outside the roadside kitchen, and the soldiers on board limped out into the winter mud. Most were missing feet or a leg.

News > Nation

Can beavers help heal burn scars after wildfires? Colorado researchers built their own dams to find out

UPDATED: Tue., Dec. 30, 2025

DENVER — High in the mountains west of Fort Collins, teams of scientists and engineers are pretending to be beavers. They may not be swimming or chewing trees, but researchers with the U.S. Forest Service and Colorado State University are building fake beaver dams in burn scars to study how wetlands created by the dams impact ecosystem restoration and water quality after wildfires. The ...

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