Pacific NW

From 1976: Spokane educators were increasingly frustrated over an age-old problem: truancy.

Just a few months after losing his bid for re-election to the Spokane City Council, Republican Jonathan Bingle has set his sights on state office, announcing a run Monday for a state House seat being vacated by Rep. Jenny Graham, R-Spokane.

Year by year, the North Spokane Corridor slowly inches to completion, which is still estimated for 2030.

After World War II, Washington state expanded opportunities in job training and college degree programs.

Bloomsday Perennial Von Klohe, 78, has goals. His mother ran several Bloomsdays decades ago, and the year she turned 80, she placed fifth in her age group. When she was 81, she finished even faster.

From 1976: A chairlift at the Snowblaze Resort on Mount Spokane broke down and stranded more than 100 skiers in midair.

Greg Wright ran the first Bloomsday in 1977 at the urging of his brother, who had been a runner in high school.

From 1976: No casinos were operating in Spokane 50 years ago, but one form of legal gambling was wildly popular: bingo.

A man from the Philippines awaiting the result of a deportation order has been released from Tacoma’s Northwest ICE Processing Center following a federal court order that called the man’s detention unconstitutionally “punitive.” U.S. District Judge Tana Lin granted the release requested in Greggy Sorio’s habeas corpus petition Friday, stating that the Tacoma detention center’s “unreasonable ...

From 1976: The Bunker Hill Co. said Idaho’s sulfur dioxide regulations cost the company $3.5 million in reduced sales and that many employees suffered lost wages.

In the early summer of 2019, Spokane real estate magnate Harlan Douglass walked into the office he founded decades earlier, and stood still.He was lost.Douglass, who with his late-wife, Maxine, built a billion-dollar real estate empire before he died in 2023, struggled that day to find to his office. His longtime employee, Deanna Malcom, stood up and reached out. "I walked him, by hand, to his office," Malcom said. "Then we both cried for a while.

He was a professor. She was a teacher.

Nine months ago, Sen. Patty Murray held a media event at Seattle Children’s Hospital to highlight the dire state of the National Institutes of Health.

From 1976: Racism was rife in Spokane, but it was covert instead of overt, said a panel of speakers sponsored by the League of Women Voters.

A review of a violent Seattle police response to protesters demonstrating against a conservative Christian group's rally at Cal Anderson Park on Capitol Hill last spring found failed communications, unfair expectations and cultural ignorance by police and city permitting officials all contributed to the bad outcome. A seven-hour standoff between demonstrators and police led to 23 arrests and ...