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North Idaho College submits accreditation report amid court battle with president

UPDATED: Fri., March 31, 2023

North Idaho College submitted a report Friday showing why it believes it should not lose accreditation after it was sanctioned.

News >  Education

Students at Wellpinit, overwhelmingly Native American school district, vote to keep ‘redskins’ as mascot

UPDATED: Mon., March 27, 2023

WELLPINIT, Wash. – After most school districts across the state have moved away from Native American mascots, students at a school on the Spokane Indian Reservation have decided to keep theirs: the Wellpinit Redskins.

News >  Education

Divided NIC leadership projects unity as accreditation deadline approaches

UPDATED: Sat., March 25, 2023

North Idaho College has until Friday to finish a report showing why it should remain accredited.

News >  Washington

Basketball champ Wellpinit celebrates State B victory that ‘brought honor and pride to the Spokane Tribe’

UPDATED: Fri., March 24, 2023

WELLPINIT, Wash. – Ambulances pumped their sirens and police cars flashed their lights as town residents cheered on their basketball team in a parade Friday morning.

News >  Business

Health care and tech jobs on the rise in rural northwest

UPDATED: Mon., March 20, 2023

Half of all job postings in rural Washington are in health care, and STEM opportunities are growing rapidly, according to a recent report.

News >  Pacific NW

Retired Post Falls coach returns after chemo to lead all-star team: ‘If I got to coach this team all the time, I’d come out of retirement for good’

UPDATED: Fri., March 17, 2023

Having recovered from chemotherapy, a longtime Post Falls coach took a break from retirement Tuesday for an all-star game at Lewis and Clark High School.

News >  Pacific NW

Mild weather a ‘welcome break’ as spring approaches in Spokane

UPDATED: Tue., March 14, 2023

After last week's snowstorms, the weather forecast looks mild and mostly clear in the Inland Northwest for the last few days of winter.

News >  K-12 education

Pi Day or Pie Day? Why not celebrate both, like local pie shop, math teacher?

Tue., March 14, 2023

March 14. It’s Pi Day! The day to celebrate 3.14, the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter.

News >  Washington

‘Best feeling ever’: Wellpinit, tiny community on Spokane Indian Reservation, celebrates its first basketball championship

UPDATED: Thu., March 9, 2023

Wellpinit High School took home its first boys state basketball title last weekend in a 55-50 win over Sunnyside Christian at Spokane Arena. The reality is still sinking in for the players and the small community on the Spokane Indian Reservation.

News >  Education

Pope’s voice on climate, a Gonzaga grad, offers solutions to planetary ‘indifference and despair’ in talk at alma mater

UPDATED: Thu., March 9, 2023

A Catholic cardinal and Gonzaga University graduate explored the intersections between faith and climate change in a lecture at the school Thursday evening.

News >  Education

North Idaho College board votes to reinstate president Swayne amid accreditation crisis

UPDATED: Mon., March 6, 2023

The North Idaho College board reinstated president Nick Swayne and placed interim president Greg South on paid administrative leave Monday night in response to a court order.

News >  Spokane

Getting There: T.J. Meenach Drive to close next week for Cochran Basin project

Mon., March 6, 2023

The closure will allow crews to connect a pipe for the Cochran Basin project and build swales to treat runoff before it reaches the Spokane River. The road, which was in need of resurfacing, will then be repaired.

News >  Education

Judge orders North Idaho College to reinstate president; board meeting planned Monday

UPDATED: Sun., March 5, 2023

"The Board’s majority has wrongfully locked its captain in the brig while steering NIC toward an iceberg," Judge Cynthia Meyer of Kootenai County District Court wrote in a preliminary injunction, ordering NIC to take Swayne off administrative leave for the duration of the lawsuit.

News >  Business

‘Like a big coffee session all day long’: Tiny Oakesdale’s grocery store is the heart of the community

Sun., March 5, 2023

OAKESDALE, Wash. – On the corner of Steptoe Avenue and First Street, a green awning with the words “Crossett’s Food Market” covers a couple of wooden benches and an ice machine. On the windows, simple advertisements handwritten in marker on poster paper announce sales for produce and sundries.

News >  Washington

Sausage brings the small community of Uniontown together every year, even as some aspects of its annual feed change

Fri., March 3, 2023

UNIONTOWN, Wash. – A dozen volunteers were hard at work in the basement kitchen of the Uniontown Community Building on Thursday morning preparing a ton of sausage links for the town’s 70th Annual Sausage Feed this weekend.

News >  Pacific NW

Northern Lights dazzled the Inland Northwest Sunday night

UPDATED: Mon., Feb. 27, 2023

A rare chance to see the Northern Lights from Spokane bedazzled residents across the Inland Northwest Sunday night, but clouds and snow are likely to get in the way the rest of the week.

News >  Pacific NW

New York Times’ Asia editor started career in high school covering sports and Lind City Council meetings

Sun., Feb. 26, 2023

The new Asia editor for the New York Times learned his craft as a high school student reporting for Adams County’s weekly newspaper.

News >  Crime/Public Safety

Two arrested in Spokane in connection with suspicious death in Elk

UPDATED: Fri., Feb. 24, 2023

Police and deputies have arrested two people suspected of killing a man in the north Spokane County community of Elk.

News >  Education

Community turns out for heated meeting in wake of North Idaho College accreditation threat

UPDATED: Wed., Feb. 22, 2023

At its first meeting since North Idaho College was sanctioned by its accrediting body, the school’s board of trustees heard an earful from the community Wednesday night.

News >  Education

North Idaho College sanctioned by accrediting commission, Moody’s downgrades bond ratings

Mon., Feb. 20, 2023

North Idaho College's bond ratings were downgraded last week after the school's accrediting agency issued a sanction of show cause, the final step before losing accreditation.

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New Kaiser policy requiring mail-order prescription refills stings rural pharmacies

UPDATED: Fri., Feb. 17, 2023

COLFAX – A new policy by a major health insurer requiring patients to refill their prescriptions through the mail threatens independent pharmacies and presents a hardship for rural residents.

News >  Washington

Second Harvest resumes deliveries to rural pantries under a new pickup hub model

UPDATED: Fri., Feb. 17, 2023

After cutting off its supplies to over 80 food banks late last year due to food shortages, the Inland Northwest’s largest food bank distributor has resumed deliveries across the region.

News >  Agriculture

Spokane Ag Show showcases advancements in drones for farmers

Sat., Feb. 11, 2023

Alongside airplane-sized tractors and combine harvesters on display inside the Spokane Convention Center this week was a smaller technology with many creative uses: drones.

News >  Agriculture

Agriculture economist forecasts Washington’s crop outlook

UPDATED: Wed., Feb. 8, 2023

Prices could plateau at the grocery store.

News >  Agriculture

Expect a dry spring, mild summer as La Nina transitions to El Nino, ‘Weatherman’ says

UPDATED: Tue., Feb. 7, 2023

Expect less precipitation and close to average temperatures as global weather patterns shift to an El Niño warming cycle this year, a weather expert told farmers Tuesday morning during the Spokane Ag Show.