Pacific NW

From 1976: Three teenage mountaineers, including two from the Walla Walla area, stumbled off Mount Hood after being trapped for two weeks by storms.

The Spokane City Council voted 5-2 in a Thursday special session to accept $1 million in federal funds to hire police, while maintaining that the city will not assist immigration detention efforts or be forced to comply with presidential executive orders members believe are immoral.

This year, Martin Luther King Jr. Day in Spokane will begin on Sunday.

Postcards.

From 1976: More than 50 South Hill residents reported hearing a mysterious character crying for “Help!” from somewhere up in the trees.

I’ve written many times that a community garden is 90% about the community around the garden and 10% about the garden itself. No one knows this better than Johnny Edmondson and the Growing Neighbors community in Spokane.

Winter has finally arrived. No more sneaking out into the garden to do one more project because the ground is still thawed. The problem is that with all our garden projects buried, what’s a gardener to do for the next few weeks?

Tacoma Public Schools is the subject of a federal investigation following complaints that the district is discriminating on the basis of sex. The investigation follows complaints that the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights received that allege that the school district has policies that “discriminate on the basis of sex by permitting students to participate in sports based ...

Nearly 20 years after skeletal remains washed ashore on a beach in the unincorporated town of Taholah, Washington, officials have finally put a name to the man long known as “Grays Harbor County John Doe (2006).”

The damage from December’s storms and flooding will cost between $40 million and $50 million, Washington transportation officials say.