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Cannon Island, a small island on the Expo ’74 site, was officially renamed Canada Island by the Spokane City Council.

Caitlin Quaempts, a new Spokane medical school graduate, has lined up a family medicine residency this June for a path she hopes leads back to the Yakama Nation. After her three-year residency in Klamath Falls, Oregon, she'd like to be a family practice doctor for tribal members – just as her father has. She is a Yakama direct descendent of her dad, Rex Matthew Quaempts, a longtime family doctor for Indian Health Services. Another classmate, Lili Szabo, recently matched to a Spokane internal medicine residency with Providence Sacred Heart, and she hopes to remain here. Both Quaempts and Szabo are among a 2024 class of 60 graduates from the University of Washington School of Medicine's Spokane site. They celebrated "match day" on March 15 for their selections into medical residency programs.

Boeing Co. likely didn’t deliver any 777 freighters during the first quarter, adding to its cash woes at a time when 737 Max handovers are sluggish amid heightened government scrutiny.

The intense backlash against Boeing after the near catastrophe aboard an Alaska Airlines 737 Max in January wasn’t a reaction to an isolated manufacturing error but to a yearslong decline of safety standards.

Private information for about 10,000 Home Depot employees has been leaked onto a website used by internet hackers, according to the company and reporting by a number of tech industry news organizations.

First, her favorite doctor in Providence, Rhode Island, retired. Then her other doctor at a health center a few miles away left the practice. Now, Piedad Fred has developed a new chronic condition: distrust in the American medical system.

Federal agents over the weekend arrested a Coeur d'Alene teen accused of conspiring to attack local churches in support of the terror group ISIS. 

DALLAS – Would the total solar eclipse, the last to cross the United States for two decades, live up to the hype?

The money is part of a $20.5 billion investment announced this month by the Federal Transit Administration to bolster public transport across the country under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. $388 million of that funding will go to Washington state in the form of grants.

For millennia, humans have dropped everything to witness the blackening of the sun during a solar eclipse. 

Frequent users of the Centennial Trail in eastern Spokane County will need to find a new place to bike, jog and meander this summer.

Lime, the operator of a shared electric bike and scooter network backed by Uber Technologies Inc., is planning to invest more than $55 million this year to expand its global fleet.

Illuminating a history not often told, Gonzaga University is working with the United Nations to highlight stories of the Romani people locally and across the Americas.

Julie O'Berg, a veteran firefighter who came out of retirement to assume a leadership role in the Spokane Fire Department, has been named the new Spokane fire chief.

Haiti’s leaders have finalized a political agreement to serve as the framework of a 22-month transitional government that will be charged with returning order to the gang-plagued capital and pave the way toward elections for the swearing-in of a new president in two years — on Feb. 7, 2026.

President Joe Biden is making a fresh attempt to secure student loan debt relief for millions of borrowers, including waiving interest payments on some loans and canceling debt for those who have been in repayment for two decades.

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has reversed his support for a national abortion ban and said that if he is elected, the GOP would also support access to in vitro fertilization.