Latest from The Spokesman-Review

• Shawn Vestal: Pools are closing; have we gone off the deep end?

  August 24, 2011 in City on Page A1 Summer has finally arrived in Spokane, just in time for the city to close the pools. Well – close the pools to people, that is. 26

• Spokane will be bursting with new turf for youth

  April 7, 2011 in Washington Voices on Page S5 The Spokane Parks and Recreation Department has finished constructing and refurbishing nine youth baseball fields across town. As part of the 2007 Parks Improvement Bond, $3 million was designated to … 5

• Travel way narrowed on park span

  February 4, 2011 in City on Page A6 Riverfront Park officials have blocked the sidewalks along the powder blue bridge overlooking Spokane Falls after engineers determined the edges of the span no longer can be assured of holding …

• Park board approves Merkel complex use fees

  October 7, 2010 in Washington Voices on Page S2 Fees for users of the new Merkel Sports Complex were approved by the Spokane Park Board on Sept. 9. The fee scale came together after a public meeting at the …

• City may tear down part of former dairy

    September 3, 2010 in City on Page A7 City parks officials are hoping to tear down a portion of a former dairy that’s in disrepair and was the site of a recent injury that cost the city $190,000. … 13

• City of Spokane to compensate injured consultant

  September 3, 2010 in City on Page A11 A consultant hired by the city to evaluate hazardous materials in two vacant buildings will be paid $165,000 to compensate him for a fall that resulted in a broken knee. … 4

• City tones down striptease class description

  September 11, 2009 in City The road to a “smoking hot body” may still be with a class offered by the city of Spokane, but it won’t be described in such titillating terms. 3