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Spokane council accepts federal police funds but claims continued defiance of Trump

The Spokane City Council voted 5-2 in a Thursday special session to accept $1 million in federal funds to hire police, while maintaining that the city will not assist immigration detention efforts or be forced to comply with presidential executive orders members believe are immoral.

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Spokane council accepts federal police funds but claims continued defiance of Trump

Local Government

Spokane County to remove litany of black locust trees along Liberty Lake Golf Course

Local Business

Lumberyard bar and food hall closing in Pullman

National Business

Starbucks sued over alleged chemicals in decaf coffee, farm violations

Nation

Trump threatens Insurrection Act deployment to quell Minnesota ICE protests

World

Europeans send troops to Greenland as Trump presses claim

Washington

Feds to investigate Tacoma Public Schools over its policy on trans athletes

Idaho

Idaho senators craft legislation to prioritize protecting Christians globally

WA Government

Amid rising threats, WA lawmakers look to conceal addresses in public records

ID Government

How Idaho’s transgender sports law was dissected at the U.S. Supreme Court

Education: K-12

A fourth high school CHAS-run clinic opens in Spokane Public Schools

Higher Education

Colleges in Washington worried Legislature will back Ferguson’s plan for cuts

Health

A fourth high school CHAS-run clinic opens in Spokane Public Schools

Transportation

Spokane-area Tech Hub consortium passed over again for funding

Science & Tech

SpaceX Crew-11 back on Earth after NASA’s 1st medical evacuation

Military

‘Nobody else is paying attention’: New Spokane billboard warns of last U.S.-Russia nuclear arms treaty expiring Feb. 5

Weather

How Seattle’s weather wonks sparked a Northwest tempest in a teapot

Columnists

This day in history: How two Eastern Washington boys survived two weeks stranded on Mount Hood

History

This day in history: How two Eastern Washington boys survived two weeks stranded on Mount Hood

Religion

‘Long Island Medium’ Theresa Caputo puts faith front and center

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News > Local Government

‘We’re still in limbo’: Spokane Valley pond flooding comes close to a solution after public meeting with county

Fri., Jan. 16, 2026

The Timberland Terrace Pond has been flooding the neighborhood it sits in for almost a decade, but all that could be about to change after several neighbors, started bringing the flooding problem to the attention of the developer along with city and county leaders.

News > Local Government

Spokane County to remove litany of black locust trees along Liberty Lake Golf Course

Fri., Jan. 16, 2026

The entrance to Liberty Lake Golf Course soon will look a little barren.

News > Spokane

This day in history: How two Eastern Washington boys survived two weeks stranded on Mount Hood

Fri., Jan. 16, 2026

From 1976: Three teenage mountaineers, including two from the Walla Walla area, stumbled off Mount Hood after being trapped for two weeks by storms.

News > Washington

WA has a housing crunch. Microsoft President Brad Smith has thoughts

Thu., Jan. 15, 2026

Microsoft is recommending several policies to local lawmakers in an effort to help speed up housing development in Washington state. In a playbook the company released Thursday are four proposals that Microsoft says are concrete, evidence-based actions that state and local leaders" can take to close the housing gap. * Unlock land: Microsoft urges policymakers to adopt a statewide rezoning ...

News > Nation

Gov. Gavin Newsom: ‘I disagree’ with calls to abolish ICE

UPDATED: Thu., Jan. 15, 2026

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom said he does not support abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a week after a federal agent fatally shot a woman in Minnesota, sparking mass protests and reigniting a national debate about how to rein in the agency. “I disagree,” Newsom told conservative pundit Ben Shapiro on a Thursday episode of the “This Is Gavin Newsom” podcast. Shapiro ...

News > Washington

66-year-old Coyote Ridge inmate walks away from prison work crew in Pasco

UPDATED: Thu., Jan. 15, 2026

A 66-year-old Coyote Ridge inmate walked away from a work crew on a Tri-Cities college campus on Wednesday. But it didn’t take long for police to track him down.

News > Washington

‘Michael Jordan’ of bounty fishing earned $159K in WA and OR

UPDATED: Thu., Jan. 15, 2026

One Pacific Northwest man earned $159,310 for spending the summer fishing from his boat and turning in his catch to a Washington and Oregon bounty program.

News > Washington

$5B in federal funds for WA would stop layoffs at Tri-Cities’ biggest employer

UPDATED: Thu., Jan. 15, 2026

Projects across Washington state are poised to get federal funding under an appropriations bill package that the U.S. Senate passed Thursday. The Senate passed the package 82-15, with more than $5 billion going to Washington state, according to Sen. Patty Murray’s office. That includes record funding for the Hanford nuclear site and $190 million for the Howard Hanson Dam. The House approved ...

News > Spokane

Spokane council accepts federal police funds but claims continued defiance of Trump

UPDATED: Thu., Jan. 15, 2026

News > Washington

Neighboring WA sheriffs clash on Facebook over Minneapolis ICE killing

UPDATED: Thu., Jan. 15, 2026

The sheriffs of Thurston and Pierce counties got into a heated online argument in the wake of Renee Good's death in Minneapolis, accusing each other of cowardice, laziness and racist policing. One sheriff has apologized, while the other isn't planning on backing down. What happened It all started when Pierce County Sheriff Keith Swank posted on social media hours after Good, a 37-year-old ...

News > K-12 education

Feds investigate Cheney Public Schools, 4 other WA districts over transgender student athlete policy

UPDATED: Thu., Jan. 15, 2026

Cheney Public Schools has caught the eye of the federal government.

News > Idaho

Here’s how popular Idaho’s education tax credits were as applications began

UPDATED: Thu., Jan. 15, 2026

More than 3,300 people have applied for Idaho’s new $50 million tax credit program that directs public money toward private schools and homeschooling, the Idaho State Tax Commission said Thursday.

News > Business

United Airlines adds flight from Spokane to Houston

UPDATED: Thu., Jan. 15, 2026

United Airlines will be adding a nonstop flight from Spokane International Airport to Houston staring in May and ending in early August.

News > Spokane

MLK Jr. Day 2026: Events going on in Spokane

UPDATED: Thu., Jan. 15, 2026

This year, Martin Luther King Jr. Day in Spokane will begin on Sunday.

News > National business

Starbucks sued over alleged chemicals in decaf coffee, farm violations

UPDATED: Thu., Jan. 15, 2026

A Seattle-based law firm is accusing Starbucks of having an unethical supply chain and alleging that its decaffeinated coffee contains harmful chemicals. Hagens Berman filed the proposed class-action lawsuit Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington on behalf of plaintiffs Jennifer Williams, of Washington, and David Strauss, of New York. The legal team argues ...

News > Local business

Spokane-area Tech Hub consortium passed over again for funding

UPDATED: Thu., Jan. 15, 2026

About seven months after learning it's previously awarded $48 million in grant funding had been rescinded, officials seeking to create an aerospace manufacturing hub in Spokane have been rejected again as part of its latest bid to revive the project.

News > Local business

Lumberyard bar and food hall closing in Pullman

UPDATED: Thu., Jan. 15, 2026

A popular bar and food hall near downtown Pullman is closing at the end of the month.

News > Nation

Pentagon to overhaul independent military newspaper, calling it ‘woke’

UPDATED: Thu., Jan. 15, 2026

The Defense Department said it plans to overhaul Stars and Stripes, the storied military newspaper that has long enjoyed editorial independence, to rid it of “woke distractions” and refocus coverage on “warfighting.”

News > Federal Government

Rep. Baumgartner weighs in on ICE shooting of Renee Good in Minnesota; calls for review of potential fraud in Washington

UPDATED: Thu., Jan. 15, 2026

WASHINGTON – In remarks to reporters on Wednesday, Rep. Michael Baumgartner called the Jan. 7 killing of a Minnesota woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent “a tragedy” but said the shooting appeared to be justified.

News > Federal Government

Senate passes partial government funding package, lowering stakes – and odds – of another shutdown

UPDATED: Thu., Jan. 15, 2026

WASHINGTON – At least half of the federal government is on a path to keep operating in the event of a lapse in funding that could take place at the end of the month.

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