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Baumgartner calls on Zelenskyy to resign hours after diplomatic meltdown in Oval Office

UPDATED: Fri., Feb. 28, 2025

Congressman Michael Baumgartner called on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to resign Friday, hours after a diplomatic meltdown in the White House as President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance claimed Zelenskyy was ungrateful to the administration.

News >  Higher education

North Idaho College wins reprieve with accreditation extension, relaxed sanction

UPDATED: Mon., Feb. 24, 2025

North Idaho College has won a reprieve in its bid to retain accreditation, learning Monday that its accreditor, the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities, had decided to relax its sanctions on the college and granted the school a one-year extension to clear up remaining issues.

News >  Idaho

Two days after a woman was dragged from a Coeur d’Alene town hall, Sheriff Bob Norris and other parties will face investigation into conduct

UPDATED: Mon., Feb. 24, 2025

Two days after private security guards dragged a woman by her arms out of a legislative town hall in Coeur d’Alene at the signaling of Kootenai County Sheriff Bob Norris, he and others at the event are now facing investigations into their conduct.

Spokane schools, parks have released their $440 million plan. Now they need to convince voters.

UPDATED: Thu., Sept. 25, 2025

An ambitious $440 million plan to invest in parks and schools in every corner of the city may require a big lift to convince tax-weary voters.

Spokane parks, schools to ask voters to approve ambitious, $440 million plan

UPDATED: Wed., Oct. 1, 2025

All-weather fields and indoor courts that can attract sports tournaments and keep Spokane’s children and young adults active year-round. A remodeled indoor pool that could kick-start swim teams at each high school. Two rebuilt elementary schools. Partnerships with nonprofits that could enhance facilities and allow more public access.

News >  Spokane

Built to melt: Boys’ impromptu South Hill igloo hearkens back to the days before cellphones

UPDATED: Wed., Feb. 19, 2025

Bucket by bucket, the plan came together.

News >  Spokane

‘My father would be crying’: Hundreds protest Trump at downtown Spokane march

UPDATED: Tue., Feb. 18, 2025

Hundreds gathered in the snow by Spokane’s Big Red Wagon Monday to protest President Donald Trump’s sweeping and rapid actions to reform immigration enforcement, dismantle diversity programs and oversight of police, and more.

News >  Local Government

Tall towers would be allowed in much larger swathe of downtown Spokane under likely reform

UPDATED: Sun., Feb. 16, 2025

Building a tower is complicated for many reasons – engineering, financing, navigating regulatory frameworks – and elected leaders in Spokane are hoping that easing that last variable will be enough to get more towers built .

News >  Local Government

Is burning trash worth the cash? Spokane to use $650,000 in grant funds to study incinerator as state cracks down on emissions

Sun., Feb. 16, 2025

The city of Spokane will use $650,000 in state grant funds to study capturing the carbon released by the Waste-to-Energy Plant, a massive incinerator that produces electricity by burning the city’s garbage.

News >  Local Government

Spokane voices support for Washington’s sanctuary law in most crowded meeting in years

UPDATED: Mon., Feb. 10, 2025

A nonbinding resolution to signal the city of Spokane’s commitment to Washington’s sanctuary state law, the Keep Washington Working Act, was the focal point of the City Council’s first truly contentious meeting of the year.

News >  Local Government

As temperatures fall below zero, Spokane boosts beds for homeless

UPDATED: Mon., Feb. 10, 2025

With temperatures dipping near or below zero, city officials are expanding beds available to the homeless.

News >  Local Government

Red light cameras coming soon to Spokane’s most dangerous intersection

Mon., Feb. 10, 2025

Two red -light cameras are coming to the intersection of Mission Avenue and Greene Street, the city’s most accident-prone intersection .

News >  Local Government

Major federal boost to Spokane’s tree planting effort could be on chopping block

UPDATED: Fri., Feb. 7, 2025

As much as $48 million in federal grants slated to come to Spokane for various projects remains held up amid confusion over President Donald Trump’s funding freeze put into place last week by executive order, including $6 million the city had started to spend planting trees, Mayor Lisa Brown confirmed Monday.

News >  Local Government

Mayor Lisa Brown waives higher costs to large event organizers in Spokane

UPDATED: Wed., Feb. 5, 2025

Large events being held in Spokane this year will no longer be expected to pay significantly raised prices to the city to cover the costs of police, fire and other services, after Mayor Lisa Brown issued an executive order pausing the cost increase.

News >  Local Government

Spokane cracks down on ‘predatory’ sale of crack pipes in downtown convenience stores

UPDATED: Mon., Feb. 3, 2025

For just a few bucks, Spokane residents can pop into many local convenience stores and purchase something that looks like a crack pipe – and that very well may quack like a crack pipe – but that retailers will swear is an oil burner or made for tobacco.

News >  Local Government

Downtown Spokane convenience stores asked to remove single-serving alcohol

UPDATED: Mon., Feb. 3, 2025

Spokane will ask downtown convenience stores to voluntarily remove single-serving alcoholic beverages from their stores and stop selling any alcohol after midnight, citing chronic littering, accompanying drug use and violent crime in the area.

News >  Local Government

Quietly, slowly, Spokane has begun planning for removal of Monaghan statue

Sun., Feb. 2, 2025

The process to remove the controversial statue of Ensign John Monaghan from downtown Spokane has quietly and slowly been progressing in the past year after local legislation was approved formalizing a process for reviewing potentially offensive landmarks and street names.

News >  Local Government

Should Spokane sell naming rights to the Pavilion? Mayor says no

UPDATED: Fri., Jan. 31, 2025

Spokane Mayor Lisa Brown disagrees with efforts to sell the naming rights to the U.S. Pavilion, one of the city’s most notable monuments, to an as-of-yet-unnamed corporate sponsor, she expressed to the independent Spokane Park Board in a Tuesday letter.

News >  Local Government

Spokane, SREC board point fingers as fight over 911 dispatch funding heats up

UPDATED: Thu., Jan. 30, 2025

Spokane Mayor Lisa Brown on Thursday justified a push by two political allies in Olympia to claw back tax dollars from the regional 911 dispatch operator that two weeks ago booted the city of Spokane from its coalition.

News >  Local Government

Spokane opens new addiction recovery homeless shelter, partially replaces beds for families

UPDATED: Thu., Jan. 30, 2025

Two more small-capacity shelters have been added to the city of Spokane’s homeless service system, including one focused on families with children and another for people actively trying to recover from addiction.

News >  Local Government

Local group asks Spokane City Council to voice support for sanctuary state law

UPDATED: Mon., Jan. 27, 2025

Pointing to a presidential administration that has taken steps to enact mass deportations, local nonprofit Latinos En Spokane has asked the city to affirm state sanctuary laws and to find money to support immigrant legal defense services.

News >  Local Government

Spokane to explore capturing carbon at its power-generating trash incinerator

UPDATED: Mon., Jan. 27, 2025

An industrial-scale incinerator generating electricity by burning garbage is the largest producer of greenhouse gases controlled by the city of Spokane. Facing scrutiny from Olympia, city leaders are eyeing a costly study on technology to nab that pollution before it leaves the plant.

News >  Washington

‘Daunting’: Uncertainty in Spokane as Trump threatens local officials who don’t aid deportations, but state law is clear for schools, hospitals and police

UPDATED: Thu., Jan. 23, 2025

Shadowed by Washington’s sanctuary laws, Spokane faces uncertainty on potential conflicts with President Donald Trump’s threats this week to prosecute those who impede his immigration arrest and deportation efforts.

News >  Spokane

Hundreds of refugees set to resettle in Spokane could be stopped by day-one executive orders from Trump administration

UPDATED: Tue., Jan. 21, 2025

President Donald Trump’s day-one executive orders stopping the flow of refugees into the United States could prevent hundreds from coming to Spokane this year and threaten the funding of the resettlement agencies that help them.

News >  Spokane

Spokane residents attending inauguration ‘pumped’ after watching Trump assume office

UPDATED: Mon., Jan. 20, 2025

Nine-hour lines, venues packed to the brim, snipers on roofs, armored cars, a congressional DJ and two hats pilfered by rapper Lil Pump.