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SPOKANE VALLEY, Wash. - A kitchen fire in Spokane Valley Friday morning left a family displaced.

“Figment” will be opening at Trails End Gallery on Thursday, July 11, kicking off the First Thursday Art Walk with a burst of color and juxtaposition. The show will feature mixed media art from Jamie Thompson of Colville and Kim Long of Spokane. “The nice part is one is...

TROY, Mont. - A 58-year-old male from Libby is dead after hitting a deer on his motorcycle on Bull Lake Road on July 4. The rider was headed southbound when he hit a deer, fell off the motorcycle, and slid. A report from Montana Highway Patrol states the crash occurred...

Puget Sound Energy (“PSE”) has issued a Voluntary All-Source RFP for CETA-compliant Energy and Capacity Resources (the “All-Source RFP”). The All-Source RFP seeks bids from qualified respondents to supply up to 2.3 million annual megawatt hours (“MWh”) of Clean Energy Transformation Act (“CETA”) eligible resources and up to 1,755 MW of summer and 1,573 MW of winter peak capacity resources. It is an All-Source RFP, meaning that PSE will consider any electric resource or energy storage resource that can meet all or part of the company’s resource need, consistent with the requirements described in the RFP.

Roughly 130 million people were under threat Saturday and into next week from a long-running heat wave that already has broken records with dangerously high temperatures — and is expected to shatter more from East Coast to West Coast, forecasters said.Oppressive heat and humidity could team up to spike temperatures above 100 degrees Fahrenheit in parts of the Pacific Northwest, the Mid-Atlantic and the Northeast, said Jacob Asherman, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.In Oregon, records could be broken in cities including Eugene, Portland and Salem, Asherman said. Dozens of other records throughout the U.S. could fall, Asherman said, causing millions...

(The Center Square) – Washington state saw a net loss of 18,798 taxpayers and their families between calendar years 2021 and 2022, according to Internal Revenue Service migration data released last week. That represents a loss of nearly $1.66 billion of taxable income, although Washington does not have a state income tax. The Evergreen State’s net loss of taxpayers in that time period was the ninth worst in the nation. ...

CLARKSTON - July 4th was a busy day for first responders in Asotin County. Crews responded to multiple grass fires, a home was lost to fire and a man was raced to the hospital. According to Asotin County Fire District #1, all of the incidents were related to fireworks. Between...

OTHELLO, Wash. -- The Adams County Sheriff's Office arrested a man for first-degree assault in a shooting on the 4th of July.

Triple digit temperatures are nearly hear but before then, HOT HOT HOT weather. How to stay cool? The city pools. Watch this quick city pool update on how you can enjoy these heat oases.

Sunny and hot today with 92 expected. Hotter weather Saturday through next week. EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING Saturday through Friday with triple digits each day. Be careful.

SANDPOINT, Idaho — An overnight fire has destroyed a business in downtown Sandpoint. Photos from Selkirk Fire Rescue & EMS show massive flames from the Army Surplus store on Oak Street. Firefighters were seen spraying water on the fire as the flames burned out of control, coming from both...

When a tenant in Washington faces eviction, it’s possible they can reach a settlement agreement with their landlord that allows them to stay in their home. A state law approved in 2021 bars these agreements from forcing renters to waive certain protections – things like rights to mediation of tenant-landlord disagreements, rent repayment plans, and […] The post Court fight tests WA’s protections for tenants threatened with eviction appeared first on Washington State Standard.

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) is seeking public input on a proposed rule prohibiting the construction or creation of unauthorized roads, trails, and structures on lands managed by the Department. WDFW manages more than 1 million acres of land at wildlife areas throughout the state, and user-built...

I don't know about you, but in my family when I was a kid, the goal was always to go to college. Both of my parents were college educated. All of my siblings went to college, I was the youngest in my family, and I was expected to go to college as well. I went to what is now called Central Washington University. (Back then, it was State College.)

SOMEONE in Washington became a millionaire overnight when they hit the jackpot but have yet to claim their prize. Washington State’s Lotto game costs just $1 for two plays but earned a lucky winner $1.3 million. The winnings come from the June 22 drawing, and the ticket was bought in Auburn, about 30 minutes south […]

Brian Heywood is the hedge fund manager and founder of Let's Go Washington that qualified three initiatives for the November ballot. Opponents of the measure are out with their first campaign and in it they focus their attacks on him. (Jerry Cornfield/Washington State Standard) Brian Heywood used his money and...

SPOKANE, Wash. -- People across the city are enjoying a sunny, beautiful Fourth of July in Spokane. 

CHELAN COUNTY, Wash. --