News | The Spokesman-Review

News > Business

Building a legacy: 80 years of Bouten Construction

UPDATED: Tue., March 19, 2024

In 1948, Bouten Construction landed its first commercial contract expanding the original Sacred Heart Hospital. The company has spent the past 80 years building projects around Spokane that matter.

News > Family

Rochester is a home away home to see total solar eclipse

Sun., March 17, 2024

A total solar eclipse can be experienced in the "Flower City" with a river running through it. Rochester is the place to be for the event, which won't happen again until 2044.

News > WA Government

Spin Control: Initiative fees in Washington just caught up with 110 years of inflation

Sun., March 17, 2024

For more than a century, Washington’s key tools of citizen control over their government – the initiative and the referendum – were a real bargain. Now, maybe less so.

News > Business

The Dirt: Circle K convenience store opens in Post Falls

UPDATED: Mon., March 18, 2024

Just east of the Idaho state border, a new Circle K convenience store has opened that could entice Washington drivers with Idaho gas prices.

News > ID Government

With all 105 state Legislature seats up for election, candidate filing period closes in Idaho

Sun., March 17, 2024

The filing period for all Idaho candidates running for office this year closed Friday.

News > Spokane

‘Dream come true:’ Thousands of excited Velocity soccer fans treated with win in franchise’s first Spokane home game

UPDATED: Sat., March 16, 2024

“Spokane Velocity” chants, smoke shooting into the air after home goals and fans donned in black and light blue shirts and scarves.

News > Spokane

Pugs, old cars and plenty of green for downtown Spokane St. Patrick’s Day parade

UPDATED: Sat., March 16, 2024

Danny Rodriguez and his 10-year-old pug, Logan, sported green leprechaun top hats as they strolled Saturday through downtown Spokane.

News > Nation/World

For Putin’s election in occupied Ukraine, voting is forced at gunpoint

UPDATED: Sat., March 16, 2024

Ukrainians in territories occupied by the Russian military are being forced to vote in the Russian presidential election under the watch of heavily armed, masked soldiers who are accompanying election officials going from house to house, knocking on doors as they seek to compel participation.

News > Nation/World

U.N. documents more than two dozen attacks on Gaza civilians waiting for aid since January

UPDATED: Sat., March 16, 2024

The United Nations human rights office has documented more than two dozen attacks on Gaza Strip civilians waiting for desperately needed aid since January, with hunger spreading as a result of Israel's near complete siege, preventing most food and water from entering the tiny enclave.

News > Nation/World

United Airlines’ Boeing plane that landed with missing panel prompts investigation

UPDATED: Sat., March 16, 2024

Investigators are looking into why a Boeing plane was missing an external panel after a San Francisco to Oregon flight, officials said. The company was already facing heightened scrutiny from travelers and regulators over incidents involving its aircraft.

News > Nation/World

Rebellious Russians stage daring attacks from Ukraine on Russian soil

UPDATED: Sat., March 16, 2024

Gathered in a Ukrainian farmhouse, soldiers checked their kits: rifles, machine guns, grenade launchers, spare batteries for radios, red and white flashlights, all that would be needed for a stealthy and daring night assault across the border into Russia.

News > Nation/World

N.J. man, 94, arrested in hit-and-run that killed beloved first grade teacher

UPDATED: Sat., March 16, 2024

A 94-year-old man has been arrested and charged in a hit-and-run crash that killed a first-grade dual language teacher in Englewood, New Jersey, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said Friday night.

News > Nation/World

‘Devil comet’ could soon be visible to the naked eye. How to see it.

UPDATED: Sat., March 16, 2024

An occasionally explosive yet fickle comet with a devilish nickname is visible in the evening sky for the first time in 71 years. Currently, it can only be seen with a telescope or binoculars, but might soon be spotted with the naked eye, and there’s even a chance it could be seen during next month’s total solar eclipse.

News > Nation/World

The magnitude of Pence refusing to endorse Trump

UPDATED: Sat., March 16, 2024

In declining to endorse Donald Trump for president, former Vice President Mike Pence made a major statement that undercut other Trump-skeptical Republicans who have suggested through their actions that there is no alternative.

News > Nation/World

Scientists discover fossilized remnants of earliest known forest

UPDATED: Sat., March 16, 2024

Scientists have discovered fossilized evidence of the world’s earliest known forest atop remote cliffs in England, researchers announced late last month - offering a glimpse of how plants grew hundreds of millions of years ago.

News > Nation/World

Suspect in Pennsylvania shootings that killed family members is captured several hours later in N.J.

UPDATED: Sat., March 16, 2024

The man in the black skull cap and what looked like a gas mask banged on the window of her silver Nissan on a street in Trenton, New Jersey, about 8:40 a.m. Saturday. When he pulled out a gun, said Sonya Hanson, whose 9-year-old grandson was in the car, “I was shaking. I thought he was going to kill me.”

News > Crime/Public Safety

Former Idaho trooper on trial for wife’s murder arrested Friday night at Spokane airport

UPDATED: Sat., March 16, 2024

From staff reports

News > Nation/World

Humanitarian aid ship completes first food delivery to Gaza by sea

UPDATED: Sat., March 16, 2024

A humanitarian aid ship has completed the first aid delivery by sea to Gaza via a new maritime corridor, unloading 200 tons of food and water to the besieged enclave, the nonprofit World Central Kitchen said Saturday. A second aid ship is preparing to sail from Cyprus, the group said.

News > Nation/World

Landline users remain proudly ‘old-fashioned’ in the digital age

UPDATED: Sat., March 16, 2024

To many, landline phones have come to seem as essential as steamships and telegrams in the smartphone era. But to those who still use them, they offer distinct advantages. Prompted by a push by AT&T to phase out traditional landlines in California, those who have them are speaking out in their defense.

News > Health

Ask the Builder: Beware of how-not-to-do-it videos on YouTube

Sat., March 16, 2024

You may think that YouTube is an oasis of helpful home improvement videos. After all, anyone with a smartphone can upload a video . Each week I scour YouTube for videos I feel may help you save time and money. With each passing day, I’m convinced that YouTube is a cesspool of bad advice. For every decent video that contains good information, I see 20 or 30 that are created by fools.

Latest Stories