A relatively unknown provision in the massive national health-care bill that became law earlier this year creates the country's first public-option long-term care insurance program, and the program is being eyed with hope and skepticism, depending

In a project that involves Spokane contractors and engineers, a 312-ton metal structure has been lifted from 200 feet beneath the surface of the reservoir behind Boundary Dam, in northeast Washington, to a concrete slab for a year-long, $1.5 dam, a