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Shopping carts, lunch, trucks, storage and more: Christmas Bureau depends on help from local businesses

Putting the Christmas Bureau together each year requires months and planning and preparation, hundreds of volunteers – and lots of help from local businesses.

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Men who broke into fast food restaurant caught minutes later, deputies say

Spokane Valley woman arrested following alleged attempt to impale neighbor as he escorted his children to school
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Argument over window led man to fatally stab bus driver, Seattle police say; suspect faces first-degree murder charge

‘I don’t really know what’s going on’: Homeless people in Colville address the city’s decision to close down the camp

Nordstrom family to take chain private in $6.25 billion deal

Kirkland for Christmas: Holiday shoppers are ditching logos for store brands

Biden commutes most federal death sentences before Trump takes office

The ‘Carol of the Bells’ comes from Ukraine’s fight for independence

Argument over window led man to fatally stab bus driver, Seattle police say; suspect faces first-degree murder charge

Getting There: Study approved for Long Bridge replacement on U.S. 95

Inslee, on his way out, talks about successes, ‘disappointments’ and what he sees as his only failure

‘The world’s on fire’: Idaho’s Jim Risch says U.S. foreign policy should be guided by America’s interests, but ‘isolationism doesn’t work’

LC senior named finalist in nationwide academic honor

4,000 previous Eastern Washington University employees’ personal information compromised

Behavioral health organization sued over fears of new location for Colville crisis center

Storm to hit Cascades Christmas day: What you need to know before you drive

Space Station keeps dodging debris from China’s 2007 satellite weapon test

Difference Makers: Cat Nichols’ efforts to keep Spokane County at the forefront of assisting veterans is ‘a labor of love’

Storm to hit Cascades Christmas day: What you need to know before you drive

Rob Curley: Embracing the myth of ‘Silver Bells’

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This day in history: Police said bank robbery may have been first in Spokane by a woman; Hillyard Lutheran Church burned

Faith and Values: Subverting our expectations about the manger’s symbolism at Christmastime

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News > Washington

‘I don’t really know what’s going on’: Homeless people in Colville address the city’s decision to close down the camp

Tue., Dec. 24, 2024

Tara Benefield, 19, has been living at a Colville homeless camp with her dad since she was 16.

News > Washington

Behavioral health organization sued over fears of new location for Colville crisis center

Tue., Dec. 24, 2024

A behavioral health organization is being sued by a Colville motel owner wary of the stabilization services the group plans to move closer to his business through a $2 million state grant.

News > ID Government

‘The world’s on fire’: Idaho’s Jim Risch says U.S. foreign policy should be guided by America’s interests, but ‘isolationism doesn’t work’

Tue., Dec. 24, 2024

WASHINGTON – When President-elect Donald Trump takes the helm of the U.S. government in January, he’ll face a more complex world than he did at the start of his first term, but he’ll also have an ally atop the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

News > Spokane

This day in history: Police said bank robbery may have been first in Spokane by a woman; Hillyard Lutheran Church burned

Tue., Dec. 24, 2024

From 1974: A daring bank robber – described as a young blond woman – absconded with about $1,000 from the American Commercial Bank in downtown Spokane.

News > Spokane

Shopping carts, lunch, trucks, storage and more: Christmas Bureau depends on help from local businesses

Tue., Dec. 24, 2024

Putting the Christmas Bureau together each year requires months and planning and preparation, hundreds of volunteers – and lots of help from local businesses.

News > Crime/Public Safety

Men who broke into fast food restaurant caught minutes later, deputies say

UPDATED: Mon., Dec. 23, 2024

Two men broke into a closed fast food chain restaurant on Francis Avenue, stole roughly $100 worth of food and were arrested about 20 minutes later on Sunday, deputies said.

News > Spokane

Difference Makers: Spokane’s first couple of soccer, Katie and Ryan Harnetiaux

UPDATED: Mon., Dec. 23, 2024

Spokane’s first season on the pitch, featuring two professional soccer teams, has brought a never-ending series of challenges to the Bellevue-based couple who brought the teams to the Lilac City’s newly minted ONE Spokane Stadium.

News > Crime/Public Safety

Spokane Valley woman arrested following alleged attempt to impale neighbor as he escorted his children to school

UPDATED: Mon., Dec. 23, 2024

A Spokane Valley woman was arrested after attempting to impale her neighbor with a 2-foot “centurion-style sword” as he walked his daughters from their apartment to school Friday morning, deputies said.

News > Washington

What to do with holiday trash? Here is what you can and cannot recycle in Spokane

UPDATED: Mon., Dec. 23, 2024

While Christmas is a lot of fun, the holiday also leaves you with a lot of trash.

News > Crime/Public Safety

Argument over window led man to fatally stab bus driver, Seattle police say; suspect faces first-degree murder charge

UPDATED: Mon., Dec. 23, 2024

It was one of Shawn Yim’s co-workers who flagged down police in the early hours Saturday about the wanted man sleeping in the back of the bus in downtown Seattle.

News > Transportation

Storm to hit Cascades Christmas day: What you need to know before you drive

UPDATED: Mon., Dec. 23, 2024

While Spokane may not see a very white Christmas this year, those traveling to the west side or Idaho likely will.

News > Nation

House Ethics report says Matt Gaetz regularly paid for sex, including payment to an underage girl

UPDATED: Mon., Dec. 23, 2024

Former congressman Matt Gaetz (R-Florida) regularly paid for sex, possessed illegal drugs and paid a 17-year-old girl for sex in 2017, according to a 42-page report released by the House Ethics Committee on Monday on President-elect Donald Trump’s former pick for attorney general.

News > World

The ‘Carol of the Bells’ comes from Ukraine’s fight for independence

UPDATED: Mon., Dec. 23, 2024

It’s the repetition of those four notes that’s so insistent, that evokes tinsel and tinkling bells this time of year: Ding, dong, ding-dong. Ding, dong, ding-dong. But it’s the historic repetition of that Ukrainian folk song over centuries - the one Americans know as “Carol of the Bells” that’s especially poignant and heartbreaking for a nation at war.

News > Nation

Biden commutes most federal death sentences before Trump takes office

UPDATED: Mon., Dec. 23, 2024

President Joe Biden on Monday is commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 prisoners on federal death row to life without parole, taking the unprecedented step ahead of the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, whose incoming administration is widely expected to restart executions.

News > Nation

D.C. officer guilty for leaking to Proud Boys’ Tarrio before Jan. 6

UPDATED: Mon., Dec. 23, 2024

A former D.C. police lieutenant was found guilty in federal court Monday on charges that he improperly warned Proud Boys leader Henry “Enrique” Tarrio of his pending arrest two days before the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack, then lied about it to investigators.

News > Nation

A woman dies after man set her ablaze on New York subway train, police say

UPDATED: Mon., Dec. 23, 2024

A man has been arrested in New York in connection with the death of a woman who was set on fire aboard a subway train in Brooklyn early Sunday.

News > Sci/Tech

Space Station keeps dodging debris from China’s 2007 satellite weapon test

UPDATED: Mon., Dec. 23, 2024

The International Space Station had to fire thrusters from a docked spacecraft last month to avoid a piece of debris that has been circling the globe for the nearly 18 years since the Chinese government blasted apart one of its own satellites in a weapons test.

News > Local business

Nordstrom family to take chain private in $6.25 billion deal

UPDATED: Mon., Dec. 23, 2024

The Nordstrom family is joining forces with a Mexican retailer to take its namesake department store private in an all-cash transaction valued at about $6.25 billion, including debt.

News > World

Trump feud over canal control weighs down Panama assets

UPDATED: Mon., Dec. 23, 2024

A row developing between President-elect Donald Trump and Panama over one of the world’s most-important waterways is denting the nation’s assets.

News > National business

CFPB sues Walmart, fintech partner for illegal account openings

UPDATED: Mon., Dec. 23, 2024

Walmart Inc. and one of its financial technology partners allegedly opened expensive bank accounts for delivery drivers without their consent, a U.S. consumer protection agency said on Monday.

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