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From 1976: Two passenger jets with 167 passengers nearly collided in an alarming incident at Spokane International Airport.

OK, folks, I think it’s safe to consider winter is over, such as it was. I have gardened here for nearly 50 years and have never been able to dig holes in January or February. It was strange to be out finishing a major path project in a sweatshirt. On to spring.

A Washington state agency has spent more than a year reviewing a violent death at the Yakima County Jail. But the agency still hasn’t determined whether the case will receive a new, independent criminal investigation.

Last summer, technology staff for the city of Seattle decided they needed help: The library system had recently suffered a debilitating ransomware attack, the threat of AI agents was growing, and federal assistance was in peril. The FIFA World Cup was on the horizon. IT leaders came up with a plan: Call in the National Guard. 

MUKILTEO — In 1967, as three astronauts performed a test ahead of the first crewed mission to space, a fire sparked inside the Apollo spacecraft. Unable to exit quickly, the three astronauts died. The Apollo 1 tragedy shook the nation and led to changes in the industry to ensure something like that couldn’t happen again. Today, as NASA prepares to send four astronauts to circle the moon, ...

Just hours after Boise was forced to take down its Pride flag, and on the day that Gov. Brad Little signed into law a bathroom bill targeting transgender people, the city proclaimed March 31 as Transgender Day of Visibility. On Tuesday evening, City Hall was lit in the Transgender Pride flag colors — light pink, baby blue and white. Mayor Lauren McLean choked up during a special City Council ...

A group of protesters made its way to the doors of a Boise engineering firm on Tuesday with a petition. Its message? Asking the engineers to stop designing a firing squad chamber for the state of Idaho to execute death-row prisoners. But the building’s doors were firmly locked, and no one answered the knocking. “We’re here outside the business whose job it is to build this execution chamber,” ...

From 1976: Spokane was feeling the impact of a nationwide Teamsters Union strike.

The Dishman Hills Conservancy and Inland Northwest Land Conservancy leadership are discussing merging nonprofits in the name of improving land protections.

Inland Northwest philatelists are in for a treat this May as a Washington photographer’s picture of a Coeur d’Alene eagle family makes it to a post office near you.

 As the Trump administration continues its mass immigrant detention and deportation effort, city and county officials across the Seattle region have approved various bans on new or expanded immigration detention centers.

From 1976: Experts were issuing more warnings about the safety of the aquifer beneath the Spokane Valley.

A recent spike in citations driven by Spokane’s new homelessness laws comes at a “critical moment” when public defenders are already faced with stricter limits on caseloads, city officials warned Monday.

HUNTERS, Wash. – Chatter and giggles spill from a tiny yellow library in a rural town of about 300 people, where kids and adults are busy turning milk jugs into mini greenhouses.

Spokane officials are considering building the city’s strangest roundabout at the southeastern gateway to the city to prepare the intersection for future population growth.