Higher education

Mike Leach, an offensive-minded trailblazer and cult college football icon who spent eight seasons of a transcendent coaching career at Washington State, died on Monday night from complications from a heart attack.

Senior journalism student Katarina Hockema wrote this essay about her feelings on the recent tragedy at the University of Idaho.

From the moment the Vandal Alert went out four weeks ago telling the University of Idaho community four students had been killed, rumors began swirling.

Gonzaga University head baseball coach Mark Machtolf will spend one day in jail and serve two years of probation after his charge from a DUI arrest earlier this year in Reardan was amended to reckless driving as part of a plea agreement.

A local credit union designated a scholarship at Eastern Washington University to honor Spokane civil rights activist Sandy Williams, the credit union announced this week.

Investigators in Moscow, Idaho, are now walking back a key claim that the slayings of four University of Idaho students was a targeted attack.

MOSCOW, Idaho – The University of Idaho’s Kibbie Dome, usually roaring with the sounds of excited fans, was a somber place Wednesday night.

Every school district in Spokane and Kootenai counties closed Wednesday as a result of the storm that brought several inches of snow to the Inland Northwest. Most universities also canceled in-person classes.

Spokane-based community foundation Innovia is $5 million closer to its goal of ensuring students across the Inland Northwest can pay for college or vocational training.

The killings of four University of Idaho students on Sunday have left many students at neighboring Washington State University worried for their safety – and frustrated with the WSU administration’s response.

The Customs and Border Protection commissioner said Friday that he had been asked to step down but was refusing to do so, in what appears to be the Biden administration’s first attempted shake-up after the midterm elections.

A federal judge in Texas on Thursday rejected President Joe Biden’s executive action to cancel hundreds of billions of dollars in student debt, further clouding the situation for millions of borrowers who have applied to a program already on hold because of legal obstacles.

A candidate backed by Republicans and two candidates backed by the Chamber of Commerce are leading the race for North Idaho College’s Board of Trustees.

Kootenai County voters are gearing up to decide who will lead North Idaho College following a tumultuous few years.

A Washington State University Police sergeant resigned earlier this week after an investigation found he engaged in predatory grooming behavior and sexual activity while on duty, according to a university press release.

When the planetarium at Spokane Falls Community College puts on its first public show since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic this weekend, attendees will have a chance to walk among the planets in a scaled model of the solar system that spans the campus.

OTHELLO, Wash. – Riley Reed has wanted to be an entomologist since he was 5, when a professor from Washington State University brought a collection of pinned insects for a talk at his small Central Washington hometown library in Basin City.

The chill in the air and the turning leaves bring renewed stories of hauntings throughout Spokane. What do those who live and work in the buildings say about the ghost stories?