Military

As part of what an aide to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly called a "digital content refresh," many references on the U.S. Department of Defense's website that celebrated Native Americans who used their language to help American forces in the Pacific Theater of World War II have been purged.

The Spokane County Veterans Services Center continues to grow – in veterans served and the benefits it brings in for those former service members.

Two active-duty U.S. soldiers stationed in Washington state and one former soldier in Oregon were arrested on Thursday, accused of passing classified information including weapons documents and hard drives to contacts in China as recently as December, according to federal court documents unsealed on Wednesday and Thursday.

Less than six months after he was surprised with a new home site in northwest Spokane, a U.S. Air Force veteran and his family are finally home.

Directives from Washington, D.C., are adding to an already confused employment situation for the federal workers at Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center in Spokane.

OLYMPIA – Washington has joined 20 other states in supporting a legal challenge to a federal ban on transgender military personnel serving in the armed forces.

Two aviators were plucked from the water by an alert fishing boat crew and rescued after their Navy jet crashed into San Diego Bay near Shelter Island on Wednesday, officials said.

Dozens of American students at a U.S. military installation in Germany walked out of their middle school on Tuesday as part of protests aimed at an official visit by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, underscoring the scope of disillusionment with the Trump administration’s crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.

Doug Collins, the former congressman and Air Force Reserve chaplain from Georgia, has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve as the secretary of Veterans Affairs.

Aerospace and defense manufacturer RTX Corp. is “fully prepared” to support President Donald Trump’s ambitions to build an orbital missile defense system to protect the U.S. Trump signed an executive order this week calling for the Pentagon to develop “an Iron Dome for America,” that would feature the creation and deployment of space-based interceptors to destroy missiles from foreign ...

A divided Senate on Thursday voted to move toward confirming Pete Hegseth as secretary of defense, in a strong signal that allegations about his personal conduct, including a new one from a former sister-in-law, were unlikely to derail his nomination.

Outside of Cat Nichols’ office is a framed graphite drawing of an old European town square.

Vina Mikkelsen’s son took the white and pink lei his 93-year-old mother wore around her neck and hung it on a wreath that had a black band around it with gold words: “NEVER FORGET.”

5:30 a.m. – If you were a subscriber of The Spokesman-Review, the top headlines in the morning paper on Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941, were the German attack on Moscow and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt writing the Emperor of Japan about troop movements in the Far East. Meanwhile, the top story in the sports section was Washington State College’s loss to Texas A & M in the Evergreen Bowl.

Even though she was born before the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, Virginia Lyman Lucas was in her 50s before she realized how little she knew about American actions that "saved Western civilization from the oppression of tyrants."

The U.S. Naval Academy may continue using race in its admissions process, a federal judge ruled Friday, brushing back an attempt by a group that had successfully overturned affirmative action in college admissions to extend that to the Annapolis-based military academy.

Stanley Primmer was knocked unconscious and blown out of his shoes after a Japanese kamikaze pilot dropped a bomb and then slammed the aircraft into the U.S. Navy veteran’s ship during World War II.

Jason Eagle was enjoying his time in the U.S. Navy when, about a decade ago, he realized something was off.