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Milford’s Fish House closes after nearly four decades in business

UPDATED: Mon., Feb. 5, 2018

Milford’s Fish House abruptly closed its doors Saturday, serving its last customers after nearly four decades in business. The Spokane seafood establishment announced it had closed in a statement on its website Monday.

News >  Education

Gonzaga law student on a mission to ‘heal Spokane’ through acts of kindness, service

Sat., Feb. 3, 2018

One day, an elderly neighbor asked Sather Gowdy to help her with some groceries. To his surprise, the work was therapeutic, a way to center himself while helping someone else. It was, he said, the first time he had felt truly happy in weeks. So he didn’t stop.

News >  Local Government

Spokane launches new app ‘Spokane County on the Go’

UPDATED: Thu., Feb. 1, 2018

Spokane County has a new app for those seeking county resources and up-to-date information on their smartphones, tablets and other devices.

News >  Spokane

WSU’s Bread Lab, where scientists tweak Chipotle tortillas, establishes $1.5 million research endowment

UPDATED: Thu., Feb. 1, 2018

Washington State University has received a $1.5 million endowment to support organic grain breeding at the school’s Bread Lab in Mount Vernon.

News >  Spokane

15 years after Columbia space shuttle disaster, remembering Spokane’s own Michael Phillip Anderson

Thu., Feb. 1, 2018

Today marks 15 years since the destruction of the Columbia shuttle and the loss of Spokane’s own astronaut, Michael Phillip Anderson. The Spokesman-Review sat down with his mother, Barbara, to remember the Cheney High School graduate who found his calling in space.

News >  Spokane

Carjacking victim shot five times is not actually dead; prosecutor apologizes for error

Wed., Jan. 31, 2018

“Hey man, I saw you’re dead. I read it in the newspaper.” So began the first of many frustrating phone calls that Kerry Arnold received on Tuesday.

News >  Spokane

Prosecutor says officers were justified in fatal shooting at Shadle Center Walmart

UPDATED: Tue., Jan. 30, 2018

The Spokane County Prosecutor’s Office says two police officers acted appropriately when they shot and killed an armed carjacking suspect in the Shadle Center parking lot in early October.

News >  Spokane

Riverfront Park Imax demolition ‘like a big dinosaur eating the building’

UPDATED: Tue., Jan. 30, 2018

The giant, mechanical jaw of a yellow excavator went right for the “I” in “IMAX” Monday afternoon, marking the start of a slow death for the 40-year-old theater in Spokane’s Riverfront Park.

News >  Spokane

Google Doodle features Spokane-born, world-famous neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield

UPDATED: Fri., Jan. 26, 2018

Friday’s Google Doodle featured a Spokane native: Dr. Wilder Graves Penfield, a groundbreaking neurosurgeon who pioneered new treatments for epilepsy and became known as the “greatest living Canadian.”

News >  Spokane

Pullman police request rape charge against former member of shuttered WSU fraternity

UPDATED: Thu., Jan. 25, 2018

After a lengthy investigation, Pullman police say a Washington State University student raped an 18-year-old woman who had passed out during a party at an off-campus fraternity house.

News >  Nation

As new Asia-Pacific trade pact nears, U.S. wheat growers fear competitive disadvantage

UPDATED: Thu., Jan. 25, 2018

United States wheat exports could slow significantly because of President Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

News >  Spokane

SFCC student receives state Transforming Lives Award

UPDATED: Wed., Jan. 24, 2018

Tracy Fejeran’s myriad health problems have interrupted her school work many times – but never for long.

News >  Spokane

DNR: State’s forecasts for tsunamis are outdated and incomplete

UPDATED: Wed., Jan. 24, 2018

Washington officials already have concluded that the state is woefully unprepared for a catastrophic earthquake, like the so-called “Big One” that’s expected to strike near the coast sometime in the next few centuries. But earthquakes can do damage from afar, too.

News >  Crime/Public Safety

Police believe drug theft led to shooting in Hillyard; teen shot 4 times

UPDATED: Wed., Jan. 24, 2018

A shooting in Spokane’s Hillyard neighborhood left a teenager badly injured late Sunday, and the suspect told police it started with a duffel bag full of marijuana, according to court records.

News >  Spokane

Spokane astronaut Anne McClain selected for space mission

UPDATED: Sat., Jan. 20, 2018

Anne McClain is going to space. The 38-year-old Spokane native

News >  Spokane

Women’s March organizers won’t play video speech by Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, her spokesman says

UPDATED: Fri., Jan. 19, 2018

A spokesman for U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers said organizers of the Spokane Women’s Persistence March will not air a videotaped speech by the Republican congresswoman or allow aides to speak on her behalf.

News >  Nation

‘A wait-and-see kind of a situation’: How the federal government shutdown would be felt in Eastern Washington, North Idaho

UPDATED: Thu., Jan. 18, 2018

Federal offices in Eastern Washington and North Idaho are preparing for a potential government shutdown as lawmakers

News >  Spokane

Cougar fans urge focus on mental health after Tyler Hilinski’s apparent suicide

UPDATED: Thu., Jan. 18, 2018

After news of Hilinski’s death surfaced, members of the college football community took to Twitter to share the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline and plead with people to seek help for themselves and others who are struggling.

News >  Spokane

WSU chooses dean to oversee agriculture programs across the state

Wed., Jan. 17, 2018

Washington State University has chosen a reputed biologist to oversee agriculture research and education programs across the state, as well as the university’s largest driver of outside research funding.

News >  Pacific NW

Following national shift, Northwest Cub Scouts open doors to girls

Mon., Jan. 15, 2018

Girls across the Inland Northwest now can join the Cub Scouts, a unit of Boy Scouts of America, following a significant policy shift for the 108-year-old organization.

News >  Crime/Public Safety

Sandpoint racist flyer suspect identified

UPDATED: Tue., Jan. 16, 2018

For more than a year, Sandpoint has been plagued by racist propaganda, from flyers targeting city leaders to CDs left on cars in a high school parking lot. Police now believe they have found a man responsible for some of that, although it’s unlikely the hateful speech will get him charged with a crime.

News >  Spokane

Scarred by fire, Dao Nguyen overcame fears to advocate for the disabled and disfigured

UPDATED: Tue., Jan. 16, 2018

As an infant, Dao Nguyen was burned and disfigured in an accident. Now, with a team of filmmakers in tow, Nguyen believes her story will change hearts and minds in her native Vietnam, where those with disabilities are frequently cast aside.

News >  Spokane

WSU researchers discover shrinking gene pool among Chinook salmon populations

UPDATED: Thu., Jan. 11, 2018

As Chinook salmon populations declined across the Pacific Northwest, scientists suspected the fish lost a great deal of genetic diversity, too. But until recently, the theory hadn’t been tested.

News >  Spokane

Slain SCC instructor remembered as ‘a brilliant, very funny woman’

Tue., Jan. 9, 2018

Jade Bost was known as a tough instructor, prone to speeding through lectures and surprising her students with tricky test questions.

News >  Spokane

Spokane Tribe Casino opens to much fanfare on Monday evening

Tue., Jan. 9, 2018

Hundreds of people braved a cold and foggy Monday evening for the public grand opening of the Spokane Tribe Casino in Airway Heights. It was a moment some tribal leaders have waited more than a decade for.