Cindy Hval

A unique marketing class at Gonzaga University offers students a chance to get real-world experience in advertising.

A Grand Slam isn’t just a breakfast served at Denny’s. On April 10, 14 students from area high schools faced off in the inaugural Northern vs. Valley Grand Slam at Gonzaga University. The poetry event sprang from competitions sponsored by the Friends of the Deer Park Library and the Friends of the Spokane Valley Library.

Last weekend, for an unprecedented second year in a row, Colin Zeng was named NCAA Diver of the Year at the 2019 NCAA swimming and diving championships in Austin, Texas.

Warm spring sunlight streamed through the stained glass window at the Hearth recently, bedazzling the cozy chair beneath it. For 18 years, tired travelers and busy community leaders have enjoyed respite here. It’s not a guesthouse; it’s a creative center and it’s also the subject of Linda Lawrence Hunt’s latest book, “Soul Space: Creating Places and Lives that Make a Difference,” (Tasora Books, 2019).

She breezed by me, her skinny legs pumping hard, her hair, untethered by a helmet, flew straight behind her like Superman’s cape.

Henderson is credited as a directory on the documentary “Rising Voices,” produced in conjunction with the MAPS Media Lab, a statewide outreach program which brings media arts workshops to students in rural and reservation communities across Montana. The film showcases Rising Voices, the poetry club at Browning High School.

Don and Donna Ottosen celebrated their 69th wedding anniversary March 18. But Donna received her gift two weeks earlier.

This month the Fig Tree newspaper celebrated 35 years of “informing, inspiring and involving.” From a black and white paper published by the Spokane Christian Coalition, to a full-color nonprofit independent publication, the Fig Tree covers the region’s religious news, sharing stories that often fall under the radar of mainstream news outlets.

Lots of folks bike to work in Spokane, but Tom Vogt may be the only one who commutes on one wheel.

In 30 years of marriage Toni Whisenhunt and Chuck Foster have worked side by side in elderly home care

Imagine a three-course meal. Pumpkin ravioli with wild mushroom filling, followed by pan-fried quail with warm black barley salad and lastly, citrus cheesecake made with goat cheese and drizzled with raspberry coulis.

Fifty years ago, the Barton School started as an adult literacy program. Founder Amsel Barton’s first student was a Japanese woman. The school has progressed into a full English as a second language program.

Author Lisa Kleypas famously wrote, “A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.” If that’s true then there were at least a dozen dangerous creatures at Lilac City Law on Friday night. No, we weren’t seeking legal representation. Our only crime was loving books maybe a little too much.

The sound of pages turning and the buzz of happy readers filled a Pasadena Park Elementary classroom as the Spokane County Library District’s Reading Buddy Program was underway recently.

The rooster’s hoarse crows were sounding desperate and none of us knew what to do.

All childbirth is painful, but the physical pain is often overtaken by the sheer joy of welcoming a child into the world. Sadly, for the 24,000 families in the U.S. each year who experience stillbirth, the pain of childbirth is overshadowed by the immeasurable sorrow of loss.

Walt Doellefeld’s life began in 1942 in Nazi Germany. His father was a payroll officer with the Wehrmacht assigned to Gen. Erwin Rommel’s army in Africa.

Sometimes love can feel oppressive, even suffocating, especially when it weighs 14 pounds and is sitting on your chest.

The Girl Scouts of Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho launches two-year, $300,000 fundraiser – the Campaign for Girls.

When delving into the history of women in the military for “Pure Grit: How American World War II Nurses Survived Battle and Prison Camp in the Pacific,” Spokane author Mary Cronk Farrell stumbled upon an amazing story.

He stood like a lonely Statue of Liberty, holding his lighter aloft, its flame flickering in the darkness. An actual cigarette lighter, not a pale imitation cellphone flashlight. You should have seen by the look in my eyes, baby

If you don’t want to know how the sausage gets made, you should stop reading now. Seriously. Recently my sisters-in-law and I had our annual Sizzling Sisters Sausage Sunday. Forty pounds of pork butt, 6 pounds of ground beef, 5 pounds of pork fat, 6 pounds of potatoes, 6 pounds of onion, assorted spices, a secret ingredient, a fair amount of wine (for us, not the sausage) and many inappropriate jokes later, we have sausage. Lots and lots of sausage.

For Amber Fisher, it was a painful inflamed finger at 17. For Gracie Coates, it was a horribly swollen knee at 18 months. Both incidents ultimately led to a diagnosis that changed their lives; rheumatoid arthritis for Fisher and juvenile idiopathic arthritis for Gracie.