Washington State Cougar head coach Kyle Smith said in a press conference this week he wasn't sure what his team would look like Wednesday in their return from their second Covid pause of the season.  The Cougars looked great in a one-sided 71-54 win over visiting Utah.

The Spokane Valley City Council announced they promoted John Hohman to be the new city manager.

SPOKANE, Wash.– Substitute teachers for Spokane Public Schools are about to see more on their paychecks. On Wednesday, the school board approved an emergency pay rate increase for substitutes. It went from $150 a day to $200. The emergency rate of pay will be used through the remainder of the 2021-2022 school year. The bump […]

SPOKANE, Wash. — Restaurants say they are still dealing with the fallout of the pandemic, and omicron has hit their staff hard. Nearly 4,000 Washington restaurants qualified for the restaurant revitalization fund to help ease revenue losses associated with the pandemic. But not all received the funding. There’s is now a bipartisan push to get […]

The building starts at field level and then goes up three stories. That means there will be a lot of construction that goes with it. 

SPOKANE, Wash.– A report from the Department of Commerce estimates that Washington and Idaho lost between $1.35 and $2.6 billion in 2021 because of weather disasters. In the Pacific Northwest as a whole (including Oregon) that number reaches at least $3 billion. Of the four costliest weather disasters in 2021, the Northwest was impacted by […]

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Arctic Report Card for 2021 shows the continuing changes caused by extremely warm weather at the top of the world.

SPOKANE, Wash.– Wildfire season has come to be a defining experience of living in the Western United States during the 21st century. Like hurricanes in the East, the rhythm of summertime life is increasingly intertwined with tracking the movements of smoke and flame. Fire seasons are undoubtedly becoming worse and more impactful. In 1983, a […]

There haven't been any large fires reported in the Evergreen State since Oct. 14.

GRANT CO., Wash. — Grant County firefighters are responding to a wildfire northeast of Mattawa. Grant County Fire District 13 said the fire is in the Saddle Mountains area Sunday afternoon. They will be assisting Grant County Fire District 8. Air resources have been requested. This is a developing story COPYRIGHT 2022 BY KXLY. ALL […]

SPOKANE, Wash.– Substitute teachers for Spokane Public Schools are about to see more on their paychecks. On Wednesday, the school board approved an emergency pay rate increase for substitutes. It went from $150 a day to $200. The emergency rate of pay will be used through the remainder of the 2021-2022 school year. The bump […]

DEER PARK, Wash. — People are going days without mail delivery. They’re checking with their local post offices for answers but are leaving with more questions about the growing issue. “We just want to get our mail,” said Annie Sutton. She lives in Deer Park and went to the post office Wednesday to ask about […]

The World Health Organization said there were 21 million new coronavirus cases reported globally last week, and health care workers in about half the states face a Thursday deadline to get their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. Here's some more top news related to the virus.

EPHRATA, Wash - Sports are back on in the Ephrata School District, thanks to parents and community members who stepped up and bought COVID tests.

SEATTLE, Wash. — The UW Medicine Clinical Virology Laboratory is closely watching a new subvariant of omicron called BA.2. UW Medicine and scientists around the world are tracking the effects of the subvariant. Dr. Alex Greninger, a UW virologist, says the original omicron strain (BA.1) is the dominant variant. “We need to see if this […]