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Regional News

What's happening in the region? Here's a roundup of news from Spokane, Montana and other regional areas.

Updated 7 hours, 48 minutes ago

Missing dog safe after spending winter in woods north of Whitefish

rom the moment she got the call about Baldone, DaBolt knew the shelter would not be a long-term home for the big d…

Updated 1 day, 7 hours ago
Los Angeles County sues Southern California Edison, alleging utility's equipment sparked wildfire

Edison was reviewing the lawsuit and “will address it through the appropriate legal process,” utility spokesperson Kathleen Dunleavy said Wednesday.

Updated 1 day, 7 hours ago
Avalanche buries at least 3 skiers near Anchorage, Alaska officials say

Guides from the heli-skiing company attempted to locate the trapped skiers using avalanche beacons and identified a probable area where they were buried, at a …

Updated 2 days, 8 hours ago
More endangered Mexican gray wolves are roaming the southwestern US, annual survey shows

The smallest subspecies of gray wolf in North America, Mexican wolves were listed as endangered in 1976, and a binational captive breeding program was started …

Updated 3 days, 8 hours ago
How springing forward to daylight saving time could affect your health — and how to prepare

There are ways to ease the adjustment, including getting more sunshine to help reset your circadian rhythm for healthful sleep.

Updated 6 days, 9 hours ago
Are egg producers inflating prices during the bird flu outbreak to boost profits?

“Donald Trump promised to lower food prices on ‘Day One’, but with egg prices skyrocketing out of control, he fired the workers charged with containing bird fl…

Updated 1 week, 1 day ago
Man who was mad about Chinese spy balloon gets 4 years probation for threatening ex-Speaker McCarthy

Richard Rogers, 45, of Billings, was convicted by a federal jury last year on charges of threatening a member of Congress and making harassing phone calls to the FBI and congressional staff. He routinely made vulga…

Updated 1 week, 1 day ago
Nvidia sales surge in the fourth quarter on demand for AI chips

Wednesday's earnings report topped Wall Street expectations. Analysts had been expecting adjusted earnings of 85 cents a share on revenue of $38.1 billion, acc…

Updated 1 week, 1 day ago
Thieves nab pricey bulldogs from a Colorado pet store after faking a seizure, sheriff says

They got into a gold Cadillac Escalade with tinted windows and no license plates that pulled up outside the store, the sheriff's office said.

Updated 1 week, 2 days ago
Nurses at Providence hospitals in Oregon approve new contracts, ending over 6 weeks of strike

The hospital doctors at Providence St. Vincent in Portland and providers at the women's health clinics ratified their new contracts earlier this month.

Updated 1 week, 3 days ago
Avalanches in western US claim more lives in recent weeks including a weekend death in Colorado

Saturday's avalanche death is the third in Colorado this winter and the second fatality in less than a week in that state, according to the Colorado Avalanche …

Updated 1 week, 6 days ago
How LA wildfires are making an already tough rental market even worse

It's hard to quantify exactly how the wildfires are affecting the rental market, but LA rents rose faster than prices nationwide in January compared to the pre…

Updated 2 weeks, 1 day ago
Native American activist released from prison will be welcomed to North Dakota home

FBI agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams were killed, and while Peltier acknowledged firing shots during the confrontation, he denied being the person whose s…

Updated 2 weeks, 2 days ago
2 people killed in Oregon avalanche near a snowmobile trail, authorities say

The Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office said Tuesday it responded overnight to an area known as Happy Valley, which is west of the city of Bend and northeast of Mt. Bachelor Ski Resort

Updated 2 weeks, 2 days ago
Arctic air sweeping south over Plains shatters record temperatures in North Dakota

Much of the Midwest including Iowa, Minnesota and Nebraska also is gripped by low temperatures double digits below zero.