by Enes Calli | Feb 9, 2018 | Featured, Politics
Nearly half a million citizens still live without power after Puerto Rico was hammered by Hurricane Maria last September — the island’s worst natural disaster on record. A Puerto Rican government website says that 83.6% of houses have electricity, although...
by Joey Mendolia | Feb 9, 2018 | Business & Tech, Featured
WASHINGTON – Philip Mezey, president and CEO of Liberty Lake-based energy and resource management giant Itron, spoke before a full Senate committee hearing on energy infrastructure Thursday. Held by the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, and headed by...
by Ricky Zipp | Feb 8, 2018 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – The new nuclear strategy released by the Trump administration last Friday states that the nuclear-threat environment has dramatically changed since the last nuclear strategy was developed by the Obama administration eight years ago. Yet some experts...
by Clarissa Jones | Feb 8, 2018 | Featured, Living
WASHINGTON – What will you be driving in the next 5 or 10 years? Medill News Service went to the 2018 Washington Auto Show to see what consumers can expect in the next coming years. Watch the video below:...
by David Thill | Feb 8, 2018 | Featured, Health
WASHINGTON – The bipartisan budget agreement reached in the Senate yesterday, which appears headed for a vote on Capitol Hill, would provide $6 billion over the next two years for opioid addiction and mental health treatment. The opioid epidemic has reached...
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by Kevin Schmidt | Feb 8, 2018 | Featured, Politics
UPDATE: WASHINGTON– The House voted early Friday morning to approve a $500 billion, two-year budget deal forged by Senate Republicans and Democrats and end a brief government shutdown prompted by a delay in final congressional action. House leaders had to...
