Spokane

Jimmy Carter traveled the country and the world, wearing a toolbelt, swinging a hammer and shaking hands with regular people inspired to help others in their communities.

From 1975: The Gonzaga University basketball team was in the Big Sky Conference, and was set to open its conference season against the University of Idaho.

Both NAACP Spokane President Lisa Gardner and Spokane County Sheriff John Nowels have clarified comments about an apparently racist incident that took place last week.

With our recent weather, I’ve been wondering if I had been transported back to the West Side where I grew up.

In 1982, Hasbro released a new line of toys – pastel ponies with long, flowing manes and tails.

Just more than 200 acres on Thorpe Road in western Spokane will be transferred to Redmond-based Blue Fern Management, a developer with plans to build as many as 1,000 homes on the land, after the board of the Department of Natural Resources voted unanimously Tuesday to move forward with the transfer.

From 1975: A judge ordered a new election for Adams County commissioners after allegations of vote fraud.

From 1975: Two people were found alive in the snowy Cascades foothills following the crash of an air ambulance flight from the Tri-Cities to Seattle.

From 1975: Unemployment was reaching crisis proportions in the U.S, and Spokane was not spared.

From 1975: The Environmental Protection Agency was proposing stringent new sulfur dioxide emission limits at the Bunker Hill Mining Co.’s smelter in Kellogg.

Spokane’s first generation of successful business leaders left behind a handful of spectacular private homes, such as those owned by Patsy Clark Amasa Campbell and Daniel Corbin.

From 1975: The Spokesman-Review paid a visit to the county’s new detoxification center at Edgecliff Hospital and reported that it was doing robust business.

From 1975: The State Highways Department director wanted to discuss alternatives to the proposed $95 million North-South freeway.

From 1975: Two TV-related stories made the news, the first related to KSPS-TV, Spokane’s public television broadcaster.

Donations to the Christmas Bureau topped $582,000 this year amid a one-month fundraising flurry that helped offset the cost of holiday meals and ensured that thousands of children received a book and a toy. Many received new pajamas and a stuffed animal, too.

From 1975: The two inmate uprisings at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla were “coordinated and preplanned,” the superintendent said.

Another year has come and gone, and 2024 was one for the history books. A consequential presidential election filled with twists and turns, the escalation of deadly conflict in Gaza, devastating hurricanes, the rapid expansion of commercial uses for artificial intelligence, the fall of the Syrian autocracy and the death of Jimmy Carter.

From 1974: A squad of 25 specially trained guards stormed the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla to put down two separate uprisings by inmates.

The holidays may be a special time for families, but they’re also expensive. With Christmas over and New Year’s Day on the horizon, Numerica Credit Union is hosting free activities for the next five days for families with kids of all ages.