Curbside yard waste collection in Spokane ends for the year Friday, though many trees have stubbornly held onto their leaves and an unusually snowy November made raking difficult.
Spokane Sports announced Thursday that Spokane has been selected to be the host city for three consecutive years for one of the most prestigious-female wrestling events in the country.
We are inching toward the growing season, and its time to develop some strategies to make getting the gardening work done quickly and easily. Here are some garden hacks to try out this year.
It’s wildfire season in the Inland Northwest. The “Nature” part of “Near Nature, Near Perfect” is bone dry and any hint of a flame could start a devastating wildfire.
Despite some early morning cancelations due to Wednesday’s snow, the Spokane Transit Authority bus system was operating relatively normally by noon, with slight delays and a few detours.
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.
When Ian White began organizing to get the Cannon Streetcar Suburb designated as a historic district, he didn’t expect to find a group of new friends and feel a renewed sense of community.
Spokane is going to be collecting slightly higher property taxes next year after all, after the City Council voted 6-1 Monday to override a mayoral veto.
In addition to a toy, each child receives a book from the Christmas Bureau. Book-buying volunteer and former Volunteers of America Director Marilee Roloff said that while book prices were up this year, everything else went fairly well.
Serious delays have plagued a few of Spokane’s road projects, including the Thor-Freya reconstruction project, the largest and most complex of the year, frustrating commuters, business owners and officials.
Cassie Hill and Cindy Gannon met in high school in the early 1950s. Six years later, they began annually exchanging the same Christmas card. They turned 85 this year, and are still exchanging the card with handwritten messages.
