Spokane Area Youth Choirs are for children ages 7 to 18 and provide singers training in vocal technique, musical theory and music history. The organization, founded in 1987, practices at the oldest church in Spokane, Westminster Congregational Church. Their KPBX Kids’ Concert on Saturday with the Le Donne women’s choir followed Westminster’s 2019 theme of “open doors.”
“We’re at such an impasse culturally with ‘us and them’ and demonizing people that think differently than we do. I don’t want to demonize this person. I really want to understand them,” Roesch Wagner said. “I hope I hear from them.”
Virtually nothing in Erik G. Sherman’s past indicated that he would be seated, in a jail jumpsuit on Friday, before a Superior Court Commissioner who complained that a plea agreement would not allow him to sentence Sherman to life in prison for the brutal beating death of his 20-day-old son.
The Spokesman-Review’s Inland Northwest Women of the Year were celebrated Thursday night at an event featuring former executive Karen Wickre and former “Marketplace” host Tess Vigeland.
Compassionate Addiction Treatment opened last month and provides holistic care to people dealing with substance use disorders, with a focus on street outreach. CAT offers medication for addiction treatment, assessment and referrals, outpatient care and case management, among other services. It also manages two transitional houses.
City Councilman Breean Beggs’ lead overlocal businesswoman Cindy Wendle in the race for Spokane City Council president grew by more than 300 votes after more votes were counted Wednesday night.
Officers used a stun gun to take a Spokane man into custody Tuesday afternoon, after he threatened his girlfriend’s father with a knife and stopped traffic, police said.
The victim ran away from home and was befriended by William C. Jackson, 44, who gave her alcohol and brought her back to his apartment, where he, Harold W. Sherman, 60, and Curtis E. Burget, 56, detained and assaulted her.
Big Red’s Barn doesn’t look all that big from the outside, but inside, there’s an entire animal kingdom waiting to be petted and fed in pens just behind a couple of big swinging gates. Jeannene Christ opened Big Red’s Barn, an indoor petting zoo in Coeur d’Alene, almost a year ago.
“Why can’t we live in harmony with each other and accept each other, even if we have a different religion?” So Holocaust survivor Eva Schloss asked over 2,700 people gathered at the Spokane Convention Center on Thursday night.
After failing to appear in court, a suspect charged with stalking led Kootenai County Sheriff’s Deputies on a chase on Interstate 90 before being arrested.
The suspect is believed to be a white female in her 20s or 30s, of medium height and thin build, with shoulder-length light or sandy hair and purple or blue highlights, according to the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office.
Cindy Wendle used a distorted photo of Breean Beggs in a recent mailer, and Wendle was the target of a recent uncivil ad calling her a “hollow-eyed reptile.” While Beggs condemned the attack on his opponent, Wendle defended the mailer.
James Quinn, 42, ended up selling hot dogs in front of the Spokane County Courthouse after giving up his job at Facebook in search of a simpler life, working for himself in his hometown.
After the coldest October on record in Spokane, organizations that provide resources to the homeless are struggling to provide basic protection like hats and gloves. “We ran out of everything, socks and gloves, at the beginning of this week,” said Susan Tyler-Babkirk, director of Women’s Hearth.