Interest in home schooling in the Yakima Valley has increased amid the pandemic as families explore their options for learning.

The Spokane Public Schools released the findings of an investigation into an early May incident at Sacajawea Middle School when Black twin sisters were asked to clean cotton along with the other students in a social studies class exploring the industrial revolution, including use of the cotton gin.

Many colleges and universities across the Eastern Washington region are requiring students and staff to submit either proof of their COVID-19 vaccinations or exemption forms ahead of their fall semesters.

Washington State University will lead a new federally funded research institute to take the agriculture industry further into the future via artificial intelligence.

A long-time incumbent on the Cheney School Board faces two challengers in next Tuesday’s primary.

A lack of school bus drivers has forced the Cheney School District to switch to staggered school start times beginning in the fall so the district can run fewer bus routes with the drivers it has left.

John DeForest let his natural curiosity and drive to excel take the lead while he was attending St. George’s School, harnessing both to score a perfect score on two of his International Baccalaureate exams and place in the top 17% of IB students worldwide.

Masks will be required for students, teachers and staff regardless of vaccination status in Washington state schools this fall.

The Community Colleges of Spokane will require students and staff to attest to their COVID-19 vaccination status for the upcoming fall quarter.

Voters in the Central Valley School District will choose among three first-time candidates opposed to mask mandates in a race for school board on the Aug. 3 primary ballot.

Washington State University professor Bernard Van Wie pointed to data breaches at banks and other cyberattacks as examples illustrating the importance of cybersecurity in today’s world.

Spokane Public Schools paid $275,000 to a student and his family involved in a 2019 excessive force incident at Ferris High School where a school resource officer pinned a student to the floor to stop a fight.

Washington State University football coach Nick Rolovich has both supporters and critics after he declined to say Wednesday which exemptions to WSU’s COVID-19 vaccination requirement – whether religious, medical or personal – applied in his decision not to get the vaccine.

Each week, The Spokesman-Review examines one question from the Naturalization Test immigrants must pass to become United States citizens.

Former Eastern Washington University women’s basketball coach Wendy Schuller claims her coaching career has been “destroyed” after she was fired by the university earlier this year.

Growing up, Erin Ross wasn’t sure she would ever be able to go to college.

SAEN, an Ohio-based animal rights watchdog, is calling for investigations into Washington State University’s animal research practices, citing reports of welfare issues and fabricated data in a scientific article.