Eli Francovich

For years, 19-year-old Shaelyn Hall saw the 1972 Plymouth Valiant lying in a neighbor’s field. Even as a small child, something about the vehicle caught her attention. “I always liked older cars. I always thought they were cool,” she said. “I always thought the newer ones all look kind of the same.”

Spokane police are investigating a body found in a car fire in north Spokane.

For the second time in a little more than a month, Spokane firefighters put out a fire at the same home in northeast Spokane. The owner of the home, Jack Jepsen, believes the fires are the result of arson linked to a dispute with neighbors.

For the second time in a month the Spokane Fire Department responded to a house fire at 517 E. Liberty Ave.

Once a rising star in the Pacific Northwest’s civil rights movement, Rachel Dolezal’s career was in free fall Monday. She resigned under fire as president of the Spokane chapter of the NAACP. Eastern Washington University removed her online biography from the faculty directory.

Last year Eastern Washington University visual communication design student Lauren Campbell filmed Rachel Dolezal as part of her senior art exhibition focusing on women of color's life experiences in Spokane.

An innovative Lewis and Clark High School social studies program that began 20 years ago ended this spring in part because a districtwide curriculum change compromised the integrity of the class. Over the years, Practicum in Community Involvement, or PICI, placed Lewis and Clark seniors in more than 100 local organizations. The program, developed and taught by John Hagney, married experiential learning with more traditional academics. Students in the two-semester class researched social issues that interested them and worked with organizations involved in the same areas. They also worked one-on-one with Eastern Washington University professors.

Rachel Dolezal notifed Spokane NAACP members today that a meeting scheduled to take place Monday has been postponed. The meeting was to have allowed Dolezal, the organization's president, to address the growing controversy over the disclosure that she has falsely been portraying herself as black for years.

A brush fire Thursday afternoon near Indian Canyon Golf Course sent clouds of smoke into the sky during rush-hour traffic as flames towered just on the edge of Greenwood Memorial Terrace cemetery. Water drops from two helicopters helped firefighters build a hasty containment line amid late afternoon winds that worried neighbors.

The cups just kept disappearing. They would wander off, sometimes in a purse, sometimes deep in a coat pocket. It was a slow exodus, but it added up to a problem: How do you keep pouring a popular drink that’s served in an even more appealing mug?

An unloaded logging truck traveling on U.S. Highway 395 smashed into the upright post supporting a steel reader board, closing traffic Monday on a stretch of the highway also known as the North Spokane Corridor. The crash, which occurred just after 3 p.m. north of Francis Avenue, where Lincoln Road passes underneath the highway, ejected the driver from the cab of the truck, said Washington State Patrol Trooper Rob Nance.

The heat wave shattering temperature records across Eastern Washington was so intense that it caused a stretch of U.S. Highway 195 to rupture Monday, according to the Washington State Patrol. Officers first thought a gas line broke and caused the highway to buckle. Then came word that temperatures that hit at least 96 degrees in Spokane baked the pavement until it split a section of the highway a few miles south of the city.