Cannon Barnett

For Fall 2026, Whitworth University will be slashing the current undergraduate tuition rates by over half, from $54,000 to $26,900 per year.Despite a sticker price of tens of thousands of dollars less, however, the majority of students can expect to be paying the same amount that they always have.

As the Nov. 4 election date grows closer, Spokane city council candidates got hot and bothered Sunday night, chowing down on fiery chicken wings and answering some of the "spiciest" questions about their campaigns.

No, you aren’t seeing double – or maybe you are, if you’re looking at one of Spokane Transit Authority’s new double-decker buses cruising down the interstate.

A 66 year old Kingston, Idaho woman died Sunday morning in a motorcycle crash.

With wildfires burning in central Washington and the Idaho panhandle, Spokane is looking to finish out the weekend in a haze before getting a breath of fresher air Monday, lasting for the rest of the week.

For the first time since 2023, a sample of mosquitoes caught north of Moses Lake last week tested positive for West Nile virus.

What would you do if you woke up with $1.4 billion after winning the sixth largest lottery game in U.S. history?

A new clause in a foundational federal grant program threatens to completely uproot local victim advocacy groups, should the state not broadly support federal diversity, equity and inclusion and immigration laws.

Folks who have held their fingers crossed for a warm Labor Day weekend are in for a treat as Spokane and surrounding areas move into a week of record-breaking September heat.

Twelve people, including one from Liberty Lake, were arrested in Battle Ground, Washington, last weekend on suspicion of being involved in sexually abusing and exploiting children.

A boy in New Jersey used to walk the Atlantic City boardwalk with his great aunt, visiting the booths that lined the river. The boy, Bill Burke, would grow up to start Spokane’s YUM YUM Restaurant Fair in 1979 – these days called Pig Out in the Park. “I was just coming this way,” Burke said, sitting at the Riverfront Park Rotary Fountain on Wednesday, gesturing towards the bridge. “It was early in the evening, and the sun was going down, and then all of the sudden, it was just Atlantic City.”

Created and run by Cornell University, Merlin allows users to identify birds instantly through photographs, a step-by-step guide or audio recordings of birdsong.

The state of Washington agreed to pay a former Eastern Washington University basketball head coach $1.5 million to settle allegations of discrimination and unlawful termination.

Funeral for 18-year-old with a passion for Irish dance, piano and God draws over 600 attendees in Colville on Sunday.

A strike by the Local 302 union has indefinitely halted three construction projects in Eastern Washington, including the North Spokane Corridor.

Last week, Avista reduced the amount of water passing through the Post Falls Dam into the Spokane River in an effort to maintain water levels in Lake Coeur d’Alene.

Hundreds of people lined up around the block of Coeur d’Alene’s Well -Read Moose, books in hand, for their turn to meet Shasta Groene McClain and Gregg Olsen Friday evening.

Baseball fans and riverkeepers united Wednesday, sporting white and blue garbage bags and reacher-grabbers to pick up trash along the banks of the Spokane River.

An online database tracks native bees across Washington, creating research opportunities and honey bee die-off safeguards.

Two decades after the brutal murder of her family and her subsequent torture by their killer, Shasta Groene is returning to Coeur d'Alene with a story to tell.

The year was 1986 when the Otterstrom family traveled from their home in Spokane to Vancouver, British Columbia, for the transportation -themed World ’s Fair. There, the newly built SkyTrain carted attendees to and fro.

An 18-year-old Kettle Falls resident died Sunday afternoon in the Kettle River and his brother, a former Marine, nearly had the same fate after trying to save him.

Otterstrom succeeds Susan Meyer, who held the position for just under two decades before retiring last year. He has worked with Spokane Transit for over 15 years and held positions with King County Metro and the Federal Transit Administration prior.

Spokane Transit Authority released a promotional video featuring Jaws-inspired music and comedic acting to advertise that their new double decker busses do, indeed, fit under the necessary bridges of Spokane.