Colin Tiernan

Current Position: reporter

Colin Tiernan, a graduate of Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, joined The Spokesman-Review in 2021, and currently works as a reporter covering Spokane County and Spokane Valley government. Colin worked the past two years at the Twin Falls (Idaho) Times-News as the business, agriculture and environmental writer. Prior to that he worked at the Douglas Budget in Wyoming as a reporter and photographer. He has also worked as a sports reporter and was a field technician at the Universidad de La Plata in Buenos Aires. He is fluent in conversational Spanish.

Email: colint@spokesman.com
Phone: (509) 459-5039
Twitter: Twitter

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News > Idaho

Book restriction debate at the heart of Community Library Network Board of Trustees elections in North Idaho

Sun., April 16, 2023

Voters have two clear sets of options in the upcoming Community Library Network Board of Trustees election.

News > Spokane

Spokane County might start deleting ‘transitory’ emails to save money and improve record requests

Sat., April 15, 2023

The county has saved more than 100 million emails in the last 15 years, but the hoarding policy might not continue going forward.

News > Spokane

Airway Heights could join Spokane County Library District to free up tax revenue

Fri., April 14, 2023

City leaders say the move would generate an additional $370,000 a year for fire and emergency medical services.

News > Washington

‘Ridiculous’ but graceful: Thousands of sandhill cranes pass through Washington every spring

Tue., April 11, 2023

Sandhill cranes, loud lanky birds that migrate thousands of miles every year, make an epic pitstop in Eastern Washington each spring.

News > Spokane

Junk car collector still storing vehicles, even after Spokane County towed away more than 700 last summer

Sun., April 9, 2023

Last summer, Spokane County towed away more than 700 junk cars from Andrey Bovdyr's property. Now, despite serving jail time and facing thousands of dollars in penalties, he's bringing cars back.

A&E > Books

‘The Return of Wolves’: New book by S-R’s Eli Francovich delves into politics of wolves in the American West

Sun., April 9, 2023

“Wolves incite the kind of passions usually reserved for war and infidelity —passions that highlight deep political and social divides,” Eli Francovich writes in his new book, “The Return of Wolves: An Iconic Predator’s Struggle to Survive in the American West.”

News > Crime/Public Safety

Spokane County creating a multi-million dollar ‘real-time crime center’ in a bid to stop crimes before they happen. What are the privacy implications?

Sun., April 9, 2023

A team of law enforcement staff will monitor live video feeds throughout the county and relay time-sensitive information to deputies in the field.

News > Features

Spokane Symphony hosts weeklong workshop for ‘complicated job’ of conductor

Sun., April 2, 2023

Armand Birk was waving his baton and leading the Spokane Symphony when conducting teacher James Ross stood up and cut him off.

News > Spokane

Spokane Valley City Council leaving City Hall for the rest of the year

Fri., March 31, 2023

During a public meeting last week, Spokane Valley City Manager John Hohman said City Council meetings will move to CenterPlace Regional Event Center while construction crews demolish and replace the outer wall of the City Council chambers.

News > Spokane

Spokane Valley celebrates 20-year anniversary

Fri., March 31, 2023

Ever since it was born 20 years ago, Spokane Valley has been an oddity among Washington’s largest cities.

News > Spokane

Spokane County buys 103 acres in Dishman Hills for $3.6 million

Wed., March 29, 2023

The Spokane County Commission on Tuesday unanimously agreed to purchase the property, which will now be protected from development and open to the public.

News > Washington

Spokane County homeowner frustrated as neighbor continues flouting regulations

Tue., March 28, 2023

"The county needs to follow its own rules," Brandon Ward said.

News > Spokane

Spokane County will consider buying 103 acres in Dishman Hills for conservation this week

UPDATED: Mon., March 27, 2023

The property, located near Ponderosa Elementary School, would cost $3.6 million and could be developed if the county doesn't buy it.

News > Features

The sign master: For 34 years, one man has painted the ads on Avista Stadium’s outfield wall

Sun., March 26, 2023

Ruben Marcilla is one of the last expert's of a dying craft.

News > Crime/Public Safety

Spokane County Sheriff’s Office buying $159,000 worth of rifle suppressors

Thu., March 23, 2023

The Sheriff's Office says buying the suppressors — which are often called silencers — will help protect deputies' hearing.

News > Education

Coeur d’Alene school board will try to pass levy again as superintendent warns up to five campuses will shutter if it fails a second time

Tue., March 21, 2023

During a special meeting Monday, the Coeur d'Alene School Board of Trustees unanimously voted to place a two-year levy on the May 16 ballot. If voters approve it, the tax will collect $25 million annually and replace a $20 million levy passed in 2021.

News > Pacific NW

‘Remember the lives lost’: Spokane locals reflect on 20-year anniversary of Iraq War

Sun., March 19, 2023

Haitham Dawoud was home in Baghdad, asleep in his bed, when the U.S. invasion of Iraq began.

News > Education

Innovia Foundation gets $850,000 from state to start high school mentorship program

Fri., March 17, 2023

The Washington Student Achievement Council is giving LaunchNW $850,000 to create a mentorship program aimed at increasing the number of Inland Northwest high schoolers who go to college or trade schools.