Jan. 21—A Benton County leader says they're prepared to challenge Washington state over its law limiting cooperation with federal agencies deporting undocumented people accused of committing crimes. Legal advocates worry that doing so could open the door for harassment, discrimination and even deportation of people contributing to the community. One of the biggest challenges the Trump ...
The Hanford nuclear site contractor operating the lab that analyzes highly radioactive tank waste samples earned 95% of its possible incentive pay for fiscal 2024, up from 74% in the previous fiscal year.
Harvard University will adopt a definition of antisemitism when investigating discipline cases as part of several moves meant to protect Jewish students after protests over the war in the Gaza Strip, the university said in an agreement Tuesday.
On Sunday night, Colter Wall emerged from the plains of Saskatchewan to play in Spokane, bringing a taste of the ragged, authentic sound that sold out the venue with him.
TEL AVIV - Israel’s top military chief announced Tuesday that he will resign from his post in early March, marking the highest-level departure in response to the Hamas attacks in 2023 and coinciding with the start of a fragile ceasefire with Hamas in Gaza.
Joel Paley, a dancer, playwright and director who wrote the book and lyrics for "Ruthless!," an award-winning off-Broadway musical about an ambitious girl who will do anything -- including murder her rival -- to star in a grade school show, died Jan. 11 in Milford, Connecticut. He was 69 and lived in Redding, Connecticut.
BOGOTÁ, Colombia - More than 80 people have been killed, and about 20,000 displaced, in ongoing clashes between armed groups in Colombia, officials say, marking one of the deadliest waves of violence since the country’s 2016 peace accords.
Eleven months after Idaho failed to execute a prisoner for the first time ever using lethal injection, Republican lawmakers have their targets set on adopting a firing squad as the state’s primary execution method.
ISTANBUL - A fire that tore through an upscale hotel at a popular ski resort in northern Turkey early Tuesday killed at least 76 people and injured dozens of others, with some of the victims dying after jumping from windows to escape the blaze, Turkish authorities said.
Donald Trump began issuing executive actions Monday after being sworn in as the 47th president of the United States, kicking off his second term in office at a signing desk inside Washington’s Capital One Arena with family members and allies behind him onstage and a crowd of supporters in the audience.
Over the past few seasons, every move Spokane Chiefs general manager Matt Bardsley has made has been in preparation for acquiring high-scoring winger Andrew Cristall – if not Cristall himself, then someone of that caliber.
The Trump administration has removed or reassigned several top career officials in the Justice Department’s national security and criminal divisions, according to multiple people familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss personnel matters.
In 2017, an enclosed floating cage (known as a net pen) in the Puget Sound collapsed at its location near Cypress Island. The collapse resulted in the accidental release of over 250,000 Atlantic salmon, a non-native species. The incident has had lasting impacts on the Sound’s ecosystem. Akin to an underwater crop system, net pens are used to raise fish for commercial purposes. Commercial net ...
Three years after the worst months of the COVID-19 pandemic, Idaho lawmakers are pushing once again to ban mask mandates implemented in the interest of public health.
The effort to prosecute the violent mob that ransacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and the leaders of far-right groups who egged them on, represented the biggest and most logistically complex investigation in the history of the Justice Department. President Donald Trump erased it in an instant on Inauguration Day.
