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Former EWU football player buys $3.45M ‘Casa Del Leone’ in Spokane

Fri., Oct. 24, 2025

An Eastern Washington University football-player-turned-serial-investor made the most expensive house purchase in Spokane for 2025 last month, totaling in at $3.45 million.

News >  Features

Paranormal activity in Spokane? What ghost hunters found in three historic downtown buildings

UPDATED: Thu., Oct. 30, 2025

Immediately after stepping inside the Montvale Hotel’s Room 310, Jennifer Von Behren said she sensed a female spirit.

News >  Local business

Garbage Goat Coffee Co. reopens with rebrewed emphasis on community

UPDATED: Tue., Oct. 21, 2025

A new coffee shop just opened on the corner of Hamilton and Sharp. Well, sort of.

News >  Features

The living and dead of Spokane’s rural cemeteries

Sun., Oct. 19, 2025

When Spokane County absorbed the townships within its boundaries in 1974, six of them – Spangle, Greenwood, Moran, Elk, Milan and Waverly – applied to form their own cemetery districts. Supported by property taxes in the districts, the cemeteries and their caretakers live on today.

News >  Local business

It’s official: The Vow Room open for Spokane elopements

Thu., Oct. 16, 2025

A new, woman owned elopement venue just opened in downtown Spokane.

Sports >  EWU football

EWU breaks ground on new $2M track, hoping to increase safety and visitors

UPDATED: Tue., Oct. 14, 2025

Eastern Washington University kicked off a $25 million stadium renovation project with a groundbreaking ceremony Friday for resurfacing its track at the end of the football season.

News >  Features

‘An adventure ever since I got here’: Spokane local wins chance to move in with social media star and boxer Jake Paul

UPDATED: Sat., Oct. 11, 2025

After traveling the country, advertising deodorant from a bright yellow RV with a faux urinal and sink sticking out the back, a Spokane man won the opportunity to move in with boxer and social media star Jake Paul in Puerto Rico.

News >  Weather

Spokane prepares for cooling weather, La Niña winter

UPDATED: Thu., Oct. 9, 2025

On one of the last warm, sunny days of the year, Spokane County had snow on the mind.

News >  Features

Bing’s Day: Mary Crosby to visit Spokane for Sprague renaming

UPDATED: Wed., Oct. 8, 2025

One hundred years ago, a 22-year-old Bing Crosby and his bandmate Al Rinker loaded up a 1916 Model T and hit the road for Hollywood from their hometown of Spokane.

News >  Local business

New Sweet Tooth doughnut shop brings international flair to South Hill

UPDATED: Wed., Oct. 8, 2025

A Ukrainian refugee family soft launched their second business in Spokane this past month, celebrating doughnut shop Sweet Tooth’s official opening Oct. 1 with bunches of balloons out front.

News >  Local Government

Sign of the times? Rural cemetery commissioner who says position is nonpolitical challenged by opponent focused on Trump

UPDATED: Mon., Oct. 6, 2025

A retired special education teacher is running a "satirical campaign to basically out-Trump Trump" for a position on the Elk Cemetery commissioners board, challenging the community service-driven incumbent who helped her mom dig graves at the same cemetery when she was growing up.

News >  Sci/Tech

Former NIH director Francis Collins cautions against ‘tribal alliances,’ encouraging Spokane to ‘listen and love each other again’

UPDATED: Fri., Oct. 3, 2025

Former NIH director Francis Collins came to Spokane Thursday for a discussion on science and faith.

News >  Local business

Spokane Farmers Market extends season three weeks to sell cold-weather crops

UPDATED: Fri., Oct. 3, 2025

The longest-running farmers market in Spokane will be extending its Saturday operating dates for an additional three weeks, wrapping up for the season on Nov. 22.

News >  Crime/Public Safety

‘Bonus dad,’ 9-year-old daughter in recovery following being struck after school by driver with prior DUI charges

UPDATED: Thu., Oct. 2, 2025

Nine-year-old Mayzee Wilson was coming home from Lidgerwood Elementary School with her mom’s boyfriend on Sept. 22 when a truck ran a stop sign, knocking the pair off his Harley Davidson

News >  Local Government

Spangle Cemetery board asks community for levy funding

UPDATED: Wed., Oct. 1, 2025

The Spangle Cemetery District is asking residents to pass a tax levy in the Nov. 4 election to supplement landscaping and maintenance costs.

News >  Local Government

Spokane’s next fire chief is running to be a rural fire commissioner, but with new job, he’ll step aside

UPDATED: Wed., Oct. 1, 2025

Two commissioner candidates will be on the Nov. 4 ballot for Spokane County Fire District 5 on the north plains, but only one has plans to accept the position if elected.

News >  Health

On Tylenol causing autism: A Spokane mother’s concern with Trump’s claim

UPDATED: Tue., Sept. 23, 2025

Holly Goodman didn’t take Tylenol during her pregnancy with her son, Isaac.“I never took acetaminophen because I had fertility issues and I was so worried I was going to miscarry again, right? So I never took a thing. I was eating organics. I was doing all the things because I was so wanting this child,” she said. “And guess what? He had autism.”

News >  Local Government

Candidates for fire commissioner in West Plains district vary in fire experience

UPDATED: Wed., Oct. 1, 2025

Two candidates will be listed on ballots for position one in Fire District 10, spanning north from Fairchild Airforce Base until just after Coulee Creek and from North Wood Road to the Spokane River. Only one, however, is really vying for the spot.

News >  Local Government

Milan Cemetery District candidate hopes to attract volunteers

UPDATED: Wed., Oct. 1, 2025

Though it’s odd to have a “race” for a commissioner position in a cemetery district, per the Milan Cemetery groundskeeper, the Nov. 4 election has two candidates vying for an opening

News >  Transportation

Getting There: First double-decker bus rolls out from Cheney

UPDATED: Tue., Sept. 23, 2025

After months of route preparation, driver training and public anticipation, the Spokane Transit Authority provided its first official public double-decker bus ride on Saturday.

News >  Higher education

On truth, science, faith and trust: Former NIH director, geneticist comes to Spokane to speak

UPDATED: Fri., Oct. 3, 2025

In the wake of upheaval for federal health and safety departments, former National Institutes of Health director and geneticist Francis Collins is coming to Spokane to discuss the themes of his book, "The Road to Wisdom: On Truth, Science, Faith, and Trust."

News >  Local Government

City of Spokane faces $13M deficit halfway through budget cycle

UPDATED: Sat., Sept. 20, 2025

A year after closing a $25 million deficit, the City of Spokane is facing a $13 million budget hole as its November biennial review grows closer.

Judge dismisses Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht’s lawsuit against Spokane and city council members

UPDATED: Tue., Sept. 23, 2025

A lawsuit filed by Christian nationalist Sean Feucht against the city of Spokane and several City Council members last year was dismissed by a superior court judge Thursday.

News >  Transportation

Inland Northwest construction strike comes to tentative end, road work resumes

UPDATED: Wed., Sept. 17, 2025

The month-long labor strike halting projects across Spokane and north Idaho ended Monday morning when the worker's union and contractor's association reached a "tentative agreement" concerning contract negotiations.

News >  WA Government

‘It’s your history’: State Constitution visits Spokane in first time leaving Olympia

UPDATED: Tue., Sept. 16, 2025

For its first trip out of Olympia since its 1889 ratification, the Washington State Constitution came to Spokane Monday afternoon.