March 1, 2010 in News Spokane County parks will be a little browner this summer because of budget cuts. Garbage cans may be fuller or gone, and restrooms may be locked. County officials hope, though, … 3

March 1, 2010 in City, Idaho The temperature in downtown Spokane reached 60 degrees at 3 p.m. today, making it the warmest day so far this year, but several degrees short of the record of 64 …

March 1, 2010 in Idaho Gov. Butch Otter now wants Idaho to ban purchases of additional retirement service for state employees designed to get them to retire early - a practice that resulted in $125,000 … 3

March 1, 2010 in City Spokane Valley Police continue to search for a suspect who on Saturday night fired a shot through an apartment wall that struck the metal post of the bed where a … 6

March 1, 2010 in City State House Democrats want to raise about $760 million in taxes by closing a long list of sales and business tax exemptions and collecting more money from smokers, bankers, lawyers … 7

March 1, 2010 in Region An Elma man was killed by accidentally urinating on a downed power line after a one-car crash near Montesano. 15

March 1, 2010 in City An $84 million Recovery Act grant will add 830 miles of fiber and eight new microwave sites to a high-speed network to help bring high-speed Internet access to some remote …

March 1, 2010 in City Gov. Chris Gregoire is asking the Legislature to set aside $4.1 million for drought-relief projects that may be needed to counter below-average mountain snowpack this winter. 4

  March 1, 2010 in Idaho Read the Bonner County law enforcement log for Feb. 25 to Feb. 27, 2010.

March 1, 2010 in City Four new cameras to catch red-light runners will be activated Monday. 10

  March 1, 2010 in City on Page A1 One reason the frequency of sexual assault on campuses continues to be high is that schools are in denial about the scope of the problem, advocates and victims say. 3

March 1, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A2 GENEVA – Operators of the world’s largest atom smasher restarted their massive machine Sunday in a run-up to experiments probing secrets of the universe, a spokeswoman said. The European Organization …

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March 1, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A3 HONOLULU – The warning was ominous, its predictions dire: Oceanographers issued a bulletin telling Hawaii and other Pacific islands that a killer wave was heading their way with terrifying force …

March 1, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A4 WASHINGTON – Two thousand federal transportation workers will be furloughed without pay today, and the Obama administration said they have a Kentucky senator to blame for it. Federal reimbursements to …

March 1, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A4 WASHINGTON – The White House called for a “simple up-or-down” vote on health care legislation Sunday as Speaker Nancy Pelosi appealed to House Democrats to get behind President Barack Obama’s … 1

March 1, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A4 PORTLAND, Maine – Nearly 200,000 homes and businesses were still without power today as restoration efforts continued days after a slow-moving storm battered the Northeast with heavy snow, rain and …