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News >  Spokane

Grant county fugitive still on run

A man accused of shooting at multiple police officers has been on the run for nearly two weeks, according to a Grant County Sheriff’s Office news release.
News >  Spokane

Douglas County fires grow to 18,000 acres, neighborhood evacuated

Fires that started Friday evening in Douglas County have grown to nearly 18,000 acres in size and prompted a mandatory Level 3 evacuation for the Rimrock Meadows community, as of Saturday night. The fires are believed to have been started by lightning strikes Friday night, said Bill Slosson, chief deputy state fire marshal.
News >  Idaho

Spotty rain showers relieve parched Northwest

Rain Friday and Saturday provided much needed precipitation to the parched Inland Northwest. However, the amount and intensity of the rain varied greatly place to place. The Spokane International Airport monitoring station recorded 0.12 inches of rain over a 24-hour period. The Felts Field monitoring station reported 0.34 inches.
News >  Spokane

Evacuations ordered as wildfire approaches Douglas County community

Fires that started Friday evening in Douglas County have grown to nearly 18,000 acres in size and prompted a mandatory Level 3 evacuation for the Rimrock Meadows Community, as of Saturday night. The fires are believed to have been started by lightning strikes Friday night, said Bill Slosson, chief deputy state fire marshal.
News >  Spokane

EWU professor dies in climbing accident

Anna Dvorak didn’t like to waste time. By age 28, the former professional mountain biker had a doctorate in geography and a tenure-track job at Eastern Washington University. Her free time was spent outside, hiking, biking or mountaineering. “She never lived life with fear. She lived life fully,” said close friend Teodora Baba. “She loved to do everything fast.”

Another bat tests positive for rabies

A dead bat, found on the shores of Priest Lake, has tested positive for rabies, according to a news release from Panhandle Health District.
News >  Spokane

Otter tours site of Cape Horn fire

Idaho Gov. Butch Otter toured the Cape Horn fire Thursday, surveying the damage done by the 1,155-acre blaze near the lakeside town of Bayview. “Whenever we have a crisis in Idaho, it’s everybody’s crisis,” Otter said.
News >  Spokane

Little Spokane fire remains unstable

The Little Spokane fire remained unstable late Wednesday evening, and firefighters planned to work through the night in anticipation of hot, dry weather today. Although firefighters have containment lines around the fire, they are not confident those lines will hold, said Nick Cronquist, Washington Incident Management spokesman. The fire started Monday afternoon near the Painted Rocks trailhead in Riverside State Park. It grew Wednesday from about 100 acres to 176 acres. A non-mandatory Level 2 evacuation is still in place for 17 homes.
News >  Idaho

Bayview residents returning to see what’s left

Bayview-area residents who fled ahead of a wildfire Sunday are being escorted back to their homes today for brief visits to see the damage and grab essential items like medication. The Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office and the Timberlake Fire Protection District in Athol planned to escort evacuees to their properties in the Cape Horn area east of Bayview starting at 8 this morning. Six homes and two other structures were destroyed by the fire, which blew up Sunday and swept through timber and brush in steep terrain.
News >  Spokane

New Spokane NAACP president wants group to move forward

When Spokane’s NAACP President Naima Quarles-Burnley talks about Rachel Dolezal, she cries. It’s not dramatic. Her soft voice doesn’t break. And the tears are barely visible. But she does cry. “I saw in Rachel maybe my younger self,” she said. “Passionate, involved, all-in for social justice. Sometimes sacrificing self-care, sometimes sacrificing family, sometimes not wanting to compromise, or often looking for ways to demonstrate as opposed to discuss.”
News >  Spokane

Heat, dry weather stoke Eastern Washington fires

Wildfires across Eastern Washington burned through brush, forest and grassland Friday amid 100-degree heat as the region braced for more hot weather and the onset of Fourth of July fireworks. Several homes and buildings have burned, and there was an emergency American Red Cross shelter readied in a local high school to help residents in the Springdale area northwest of Spokane who were among the dozens of households evacuated as the 500-acre Rail Canyon fire chewed through forest.
News >  Spokane

UGM offers free summer camp for disadvantaged kids

The children playing in the shallow waters of the Spokane River were laughing. The midafternoon dip was a refreshing respite from the day’s heat. As they clung to canoes and raced through the water, they looked right at home. For many of these kids this idyllic setting northwest of Spokane near the community of Ford is nothing like home.
News >  Spokane

Golf courses’ quiet invader is poa annua

It’s nearly impossible to get rid of. Golf course greens keepers have spent thousands of dollars trying to kill it. Indian Canyon pro Gary Lindeblad compared it to cancer. Golfers at this year’s U.S. Open at Chamber’s Bay golf course blamed missed shots on it. Poa annua is an invasive grass species that thrives in cool, moist climates and germinates quickly, which allows it to spread. “It’s the strongest, most enduring plant there is on the golf course,” Lindeblad said. “It’s like fighting with your wife. You think you’ve won, but you haven’t.”
News >  Spokane

Spokane NAACP moves forward after Rachel Dolezal controversy

There was a sense of hope, tinged with wariness, at the first Spokane NAACP community meeting since the national furor over former chapter president Rachel Dolezal’s lies about her race. “We recognize that relationships have been disrupted. We recognize that there has been hurt and distrust,” said Naima Quarles-Burnley, the chapter’s new president. “(But) the actions of one person cannot, and should not, derail a 95-year legacy that the Spokane NAACP has had.”