Pacific NW

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.

A U.S. Navy ship will be named for the state of Idaho for the first time in more than a century, and now it will also carry the name of a “driving force” in public office for the state, too. Former Idaho Gov. Dirk Kempthorne has been given the rare distinction of having his name attached to a space aboard the newest U.S. submarine — specifically the engine room. The honor was recently granted ...

An Eagle legislator who cochairs the Legislature’s budget committee has pushed back hard on the budget Gov. Brad Little proposed in his State of the State address. Rep. Josh Tanner replaced Wendy Horman of Idaho Falls as the cochair of the powerful Joint Finance and Appropriations Committee after Horman left the Legislature on Jan. 5 to work for President Donald Trump’s administration. In one ...

From 1976: Fairchild Air Force Base security personnel – including a police canine – searched nearly 300 cars entering and leaving the base.

The Spokane City Council is hesitating to accept $1 million in federal funds to hire eight new police officers amid concerns it could force compliance with federal immigration detention efforts and presidential executive orders, despite reassurances from local police officials.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday heard arguments in a case challenging an Idaho law that bars transgender women and girls from participating in sports that align with their gender identity. The case began in 2020, when Idaho became the first state in the nation to pass such a sweeping law targeting trans athletes. Shortly after Gov. Brad Little signed the bill into law, a transgender woman ...

From 1976: Was the local stagehands union causing entertainment acts to skip Spokane?