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News >  Spokane

STA to increase service

The Spokane Transit Authority board approved Thursday a plan to increase local bus service by about 11 percent this fall. The plan calls for increasing frequency on some routes and providing more connections. Some less-efficient routes are being cut or adjusted.
News >  Spokane

Bridge should be open by Halloween

Barring a mean trick, Spokane drivers will be able to cross the Monroe Street Bridge by Halloween. The city is projecting an opening date of no later than Oct. 28 – about four months later than the planned June opening, but two months earlier than the contractor estimated just weeks ago.
News >  Spokane

County says it will choose a single logo

Spokane County workers call one of the county's logos "Disneyland." It features a picture of the courthouse tower emerging from a semi-circle rising sun and looks like Cinderella's castle.
News >  Spokane

Work to close lanes on I-90

Returning soon to Interstate 90 — the chutes. Washington Department of Transportation crews are once again at work on the I-90 widening project between Argonne and Sullivan, and are scheduled to move westbound traffic over to the eastbound side of the freeway in mid-March.
News >  Spokane

County wants to trim Planning Commission

The panel charged with helping shape growth and development across Spokane County likely will be getting smaller. Spokane County commissioners want to trim the seven-member Planning Commission to five, citing reduced workload after Spokane Valley incorporated as its own city. Critics, however, say the move has more to do with politics than with workload.
News >  Spokane

Raises approved for county officials

Spokane County's three commissioners are getting $7,000 pay raises this year. The Spokane County Citizens' Commission on Salaries approved the increase to $82,000 a year, a 9.3 percent pay boost at a time when most other county workers will receive raises of about 2 percent.
News >  Spokane

Panel ignored in judge selection

Spokane County commissioners went against the recommendations of their own appointed panel Wednesday afternoon to select Harvey Dunham to fill a $118,458-a-year judicial vacancy on the Spokane County District Court bench. Commissioners Phil Harris and Mark Richard picked Dunham, a Spokane lawyer, over the objections of Commissioner Todd Mielke, who said they should have chosen from the five finalists picked by the panel.
News >  Spokane

New bridge for pedestrians will link trails

Funding was the toughest bridge to cross when it came time to connect Liberty Lake's trail system on the south side of Interstate 90 with the Centennial Trail on the north. So says Thomas Specht, who has been working on finding money for a pedestrian bridge over the freeway for about a decade.
News >  Spokane

More delays in Monroe Street Bridge reopening

The long-awaited Monroe Street Bridge reopening will be at least three months late. Weather delays and problems with a pier on the north side of the bridge have already postponed reopening the bridge until August. Now a recently discovered structural problem on the south side of the bridge could push the closure into the fall.
News >  Spokane

Slaying stuns Palouse town

An Endicott, Wash., man was killed and dumped in the Palouse River early Sunday while his girlfriend was forced to watch, said Whitman County Sheriff Brett Myers. It's the first murder investigation this town of 300 about 75 miles south of Spokane has seen in at least 30 years, Myers said.
News >  Spokane

Development task force dismantled

Spokane County commissioners have disbanded the county's five-year-old development task force, just as it finished addressing developers' concerns and was moving on to neighborhood issues. Commissioners said the group was formed to address the Spokane Regional Chamber of Commerce's concerns that the county wasn't business friendly. The commissioners say that work is complete.
News >  Spokane

New way to feed the meters

Downtown Spokane parking is about to get a whole lot easier – or a whole lot more complicated. The easier part is being able to use a credit card.
News >  Spokane

County rejects Valley request to run pools

Spokane Valley officials' latest attempt to persuade Spokane County to again operate the Valley's swim pools was a belly-flop. Commissioners reaffirmed Tuesday an earlier decision against managing the pools this summer because the county wasn't given the city's broader parks maintenance contract.
News >  Spokane

STA proposes route changes

Spokane's bus system is set to get its first major overhaul since 1998. The Spokane Transit Authority proposal calls for many new routes and increasing bus frequency along some corridors, but there are areas that might lose service, including Linwood, Northwest Terrace and a portion of Spokane's South Hill.
News >  Spokane

New rules for sewer hookups

Septic tank users no longer must hook up right away to the sewer when it comes to their neighborhood. Spokane County commissioners agreed this week to the temporary policy change in a bid to prevent a building moratorium.
News >  Spokane

Waiting area coming soon to Spokane airport

Spokane may soon have its own free waiting area at Spokane International Airport. The lot, where people can park for free and wait for arriving passengers to call them by cell phone, is in the works, although a particular location has yet to be selected, said airport spokesman Todd Woodard.
News >  Spokane

Farmers wary of traffic circle

It's a planned roundabout, but some local farmers are fearing the runaround. Namely, they're worried that their large equipment won't be able to run around the roundabout in the works for the intersection of Bruce Road and Mt. Spokane Park Drive.
News >  Spokane

Appointment process raises controversy

The Spokane legal community has been abuzz with talk about the Spokane County commissioners' upcoming judicial appointment. Commissioners get to choose who will fulfill the remaining two years of Judge Harold Clarke's District Court term. Clarke was elected to the Spokane County Superior Court in November.
News >  Spokane

Dad sought in death of toddler

Kootenai County sheriff's deputies are searching for a man they believe may have been involved in his toddler son's death over the weekend. According to a Sheriff's Department news release, 15-month-old Brandon McAdoo, of 320 E. Coeur d'Alene Lake Drive, died at Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane on Sunday morning with injuries that appeared to have been the result of shaken baby syndrome.