Public safety and homelessness remain the top issues facing the Spokane region, and residents show an overwhelming dissatisfaction with the local response to their concerns, according to the latest survey from Greater Spokane Incorporated.
Homelessness has permeated Spokane streets and minds for years, and Spokane City Council hopeful Kate Telis or Alejandro Barrientos will be next in line to address the problem.
The annual fire and police levies are once again on the ballot in the small southern Spokane County towns of Rockford and Spangle. The towns typically run one-year levies each year to pay for services or for contracts to provide needed emergency services that they can’t afford without the taxes.
Candidates for Spokane City Council’s northeast district on Thursday tackled – often with opposing views – perhaps the city’s most complex and contentious topic: homelessness.
Just more than three years after the Spokane City Council passed protections to make it “easy to hire but hard to fire” full-time staff in their office, some are moving to remove those protections in the face of a $13 million budget deficit and calls to cut staff citywide.
Spokane’s new homelessness outreach teams, in collaboration with Catholic Charities of Eastern Washington, have closed nearly 100 encampments within the first 10 days of inception, the city announced Thursday.
Landowners in a Spokane County water district voted against a proposed housing development in the Pasadena Park neighborhood north of the Spokane River, where Cowles Real Estate wanted to build around 400 homes on 100 acres of land.
On Friday, 100 years after her father left the Lilac City to become a pop music luminary, Mary Crosby unveiled a section of Sprague Avenue renamed for him.
Two names are on the ballot for fire commissioner in Spokane County Fire District 9, but one candidate said he had second thoughts about the position after it was too late to remove his.
A retired special education teacher is running a "satirical campaign to basically out-Trump Trump" for a position on the Elk Cemetery commissioners board, challenging the community service-driven incumbent who helped her mom dig graves at the same cemetery when she was growing up.
Most warm days, Rhona Gardener sits outside the Ridpath Apartments in her red camp chair with a pack of cigarettes in the cupholder and cellphone in her lap.
