The city of Spokane Valley will buy the former White Elephant retail store site located at 12614 E. Sprague for $2.2 million, with long-term plans to use the property for law enforcement needs, says Spokane Valley Mayor Ben Wick.

March 2020 is a month that many will never forget. It was in March of 2020 that the World Health Organization declared that we were facing a pandemic outbreak called COVID-19. There were mask mandates, quarantines, and an immediate and radical change to

One in five nursing home facilities throughout the U.S. meets the threshold of having at least 75% of staff fully vaccinated, AARP has found. According to AARP's latest release of its Nursing Home COVID-19 Dashboard, which incorporates new data on

There is always something to hold us back, someone telling us there's too much risk involved. We can't control the outcome enough. What if we fail? The game of 'what ifs” can turn into a death spiral if we let it. Learning to control the

Will your retirement dreams match your reality? That's perhaps the most critical question to ask people who are currently retired. Is your retirement what you expected, or is it something else? For more than 30 years, the Employee Benefit Research Ins

Massive forest fires in western parts of our country are not only choking us with layers of thick smoke but are leaving behind millions of acres of scorched hillsides, ridges, and valleys. According to the Arbor Day Foundation, record wildfire seasons

Government leaders here are faced with the enormous task of deciding what to do with more than $200 million in American Rescue Plan funding coming collectively to Spokane County, the cities of Spokane and Spokane Valley, school districts, and other local

A group of Spokane-based physical therapy clinics has changed hands. Bryce Schwendiman acquired all five Spokane-area locations of Paula Dillon Mays Physical Therapy clinics in May. Schwendiman has been a physical therapist at the company's South Hill