Elena Perry

TACOMA – Though the jeering follows Verónica Garcia when she races in track events, it hasn’t slowed her down.

TACOMA – After a controversial victory, last year’s champion in the girls 400-meter dash is seeking to retain her title at this year’s State 2A track and field championship meet at Mt. Tahoma High School.

Phone calls weren’t enough to get kids with low attendance to school. Midway through last year, a thought struck him Regal Elementary's first-year counselor.

Spokane astronaut Anne McClain’s digital homecoming Tuesday kicked off with a fervor.

“Memorial Day is just one day set aside for the specific purpose of honoring those that have given their lives in defense of our great nation," said Solomon Gilbert, deputy director of Washington’s Department of Veteran's Affairs. "It is a day to remember their sacrifice and their courage to be willing to give everything. We remember our loved ones; they are friends, our family, our fellow service members. The calendar says we set aside one special day, but our hearts and minds know we remember them always.”

Brogue, osprey, drumlin, gastronome, eucalyptus, rapscallion, lithophone.

As she meandered the small Orchard Prairie Cemetery, Ann Jones was startled to see she recognized some of the last names engraved into the headstones.

Tere Graham attended the African American Graduation Ceremony more than a decade ago after graduating from Eastern Washington University.

For four hours Sunday, the historic Looff Carrousel in Riverfront Park silenced its signature circus tunes and dimmed its colorful flashing lights for an afternoon of free rides for kids with disabilities who may otherwise find the attraction overwhelming.

Each morning, students and staff at the Salish School of Spokane greet the sun with a booming drum circle, a nod to the traditional practices of Indigenous Salish culture the school seeks to revitalize.

After being teased for months, Spokane Public Schools’ $200 million bond is now bound for ballots in November.

Students in special education programs may abstain from the traditional high school fare; the buzzers and screaming at a basketball game or flashing lights at a school dance could be overwhelming for neurodiverse students, often hypersensitive to loud sounds or bright lights, for example.

The once “scary” and “drab” structure at Lower Lincoln Park is getting a nature-themed makeover at the hands of more than 400 kids and some volunteer parents from the neighboring Franklin Elementary School.

As a deluge drowned Riverfront Park on Sunday, hundreds sought refuge indoors at the Gesa Credit Union Pavilion to address fentanyl abuse in Spokane.

Almost 1,000 students in over 50 marching bands took to the downtown streets Saturday in the annual Junior Lilac Parade, some of them finishing decorated ahead of the Armed Forces Torchlight Parade the coming weekend.

This Mother’s Day, Kitara Johnson Jones is taking more than a couple pages out of her late son’s 66-page playbook.

Just after Alison Daschbach watched her childhood golf heroes tee up at the Masters in Augusta, Georgia last spring, there was one person she wanted to call from a pay phone on the course, where cellphones are barred.

In a special meeting Monday, the Central Valley School Board finalized and filed a federal Title IX complaint against the state public schools authority, challenging guidance on transgender sports participation, which they say conflicts with federal directives .

The number of Bloomsday finishers continued to climb in the iconic foot race’s 49th year .

As the mild sun shone unfiltered, downtown sparrows chirped in the treetops and the cheers of more than 30,000 Bloomies ricocheted through the downtown corridor, the 49th Bloomsday went off with a bang.

It was the perfect spring morning for a run as people lined up by the thousands for the 49th annual Lilac Bloomsday Run. Beautiful blue skies, not too cold to wait for the starting gun, but crisp enough to keep someone from overheating on the seventh mile.

All elements are stacking up for a picturesque Bloomsday on Sunday: more racers, temperate spring weather, and talk of a course record to be set.

Trump administration officials on Wednesday launched an investigation into the authority overseeing Washington’s public schools, questioning state policy surrounding transgender students’ sports participation, pronoun use and parental notification.