Ninety-one miners perished in the Sunshine Mine Fire on May 2, 1972. The fire was the second deadliest hard-rock mining disaster in U.S. history, and the deaths spread tragedy throughout the Silver Valley. On Wednesday, May 2, 2012, the community gathered to mark the fire's 40th anniversary.
Under new head coach, Mike Leach, the Washington State University football team traveled from Pullman to play their Crimson and Gray in Spokane's Joe Albi Stadium, on Saturday, April 21, 2012.
Gonzaga University students, numbering near 160, participate in the 18th annual April Angels project at St. Joseph Family Center in Spokane, Wash. This year's initiative, titled "Live Together, Rebuild Toberther" Logan Neighborhood Revitalization Project, focused on Gonzaga's mission of service to others to helping the school's neighbors.
The Americans scored twice in the first period and Ty Rimmer made 24 saves as Tri-City picked up a 2-1 win and took a 2-1 lead in the Western Hockey League playoff series in front of 4,742 fans on Wednesday night at the Arena.
In all its faded, 1970ish glory, Spokane’s flag flew on Tuesday in its rightful place, third only to the American and Washington flags. What would normally be unremarkable background at a mayoral news conference became a highlight because city officials have largely shunned the city’s flag in recent years, so much so, that the only known remaining city flag is wrinkled, browning and was missing for years until it was recently located in storage box unrelated to the flag.
As another snow storm covered mainly grassy surfaces around Spokane and Coeur d’Alene this morning, emergency managers in North Idaho were trying to figure out how they are going to repair a series of road washouts caused by record March rainfall combined with lower-elevation snow melt.
The Gonzaga women's basketball team practice Saturday at the Ryan Center in Kingston, Rhode Island. They will face the University of Kentucky Wildcats on Sunday in a NCAA Sweet Sixteen game.
The Gonzaga Bulldogs took on the formidable University of Miami Hurricanes on their home court Saturday, Mar. 19, 2012. It was a tight game, but the Lady Bulldogs came through, 65-54, to head to the Sweet Sixteen.
The University of Miami has won 26 games this season, but few of them were as easy, or as satisfying, as Saturday’s 70-41 rout of Idaho State in the NCAA tournament first round at Gonzaga’s McCarthey Center.
Jared Sullinger scored 18 points, including two big baskets in the final 3 minutes to lead the Buckeyes past Gonzaga 73-66 on Saturday and into the round of 16 for the third straight year.