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News >  Local business

Experts offer predictions on Spokane’s economic forecast for 2026

Thu., Nov. 6, 2025

Spokane is stuck in an economic malaise.

News >  Spokane

‘Removing the stigma of charity’: Organization embraced by President Jimmy Carter remains an important force for housing in Spokane

Fri., Jan. 10, 2025

Jimmy Carter traveled the country and the world, wearing a toolbelt, swinging a hammer and shaking hands with regular people inspired to help others in their communities.

News >  Crime/Public Safety

WSDOT worker removing roadkill in Spokane County hit by pickup

UPDATED: Mon., Oct. 28, 2024

A Washington state Department of Transportation worker loading two deer carcasses into a removal truck Monday morning suffered serious injuries when the driver of a pickup along state Route 206 east of Mead hit him and pinned him against the work truck.

News >  Military

Navy crash victims near Mount Rainier identified as 31-year-old pilots

UPDATED: Mon., Oct. 21, 2024

Two women the U.S. Navy called role models and trailblazers were identified Monday as the aviators of an EA-18G Growler aircraft that crashed into a mountainside near Mount Rainier.

News >  Pacific NW

Comet appeared again Monday night at sunset

UPDATED: Mon., Oct. 14, 2024

What a month for staring at the night sky.

News >  Spokane

Former Spokesman-Review marketing director Shaun O’L. Higgins dies at 76

UPDATED: Fri., Oct. 4, 2024

Shaun O’L. Higgins, whose optimism and insight fit neatly with his decades leading The Spokesman-Review’s advertising and marketing efforts, died unexpectedly Tuesday. He was 76.

News >  Spokane

Spokane selected to host first, second rounds of 2027 NCAA men’s basketball tourney

UPDATED: Wed., Oct. 2, 2024

March Madness men’s basketball will return to Spokane in 2027.

News >  Crime/Public Safety

Spokane police clear explosive material that led to bomb scare at Sacred Heart Medical Center

UPDATED: Wed., Jan. 4, 2023

Hospital staff found suspicious materials on a trauma patient flown to Spokane from Oregon. 

A&E

What’s in a name? For Spokane, lilacs were the convergence for history and beauty

Thu., June 9, 2022

From staff reports

News

‘It felt like the first Bloomsday’: Race director sees bright future for Spokane’s signature event after more than 21,000 cross finish line

UPDATED: Wed., May 4, 2022

Bloomsday organizers are basking in the orange glow of their post-pandemic race, yet looking ahead to reconnecting with past runners and cultivating a new following to Spokane’s seminal event.

News >  Military

Air Force chooses Florida base for new refueling tankers over Fairchild

UPDATED: Tue., Dec. 21, 2021

The Air Force has chosen MacDill Air Force Base in Florida rather than Fairchild Air Force Base to be home base for its next group of modern refueling tankers.

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Washington prisoners getting vaccinated for COVID-19 amid outbreak

UPDATED: Mon., Dec. 28, 2020

There were 147 new COVID-19 cases reported Monday in Spokane County. Two more people died.

News >  Spokane

Medal of Honor recipient and WSU graduate Ronald Shurer, 41, dies of cancer

UPDATED: Fri., May 15, 2020

Ronald Shurer II, who graduated from Washington State University in 2001 and joined the Army a year later and served with such extraordinary valor in Afghanistan that he earned the nation’s highest military honor, died Thursday of cancer. He was 41.

News >  Spokane

Author and Pulitzer Prize winner Timothy Egan: ‘My faith is complicated’

Sat., Oct. 26, 2019

Unsettled by his mother’s deathbed words about her long-held beliefs, Timothy Egan, a New York Times winner of the Pulitzer Prize and bestselling author, packed his own lapsed faith, curiosity and Pacific Northwest travel wear and set out to explore his own spirituality in his new book, “A Pilgrimage to Eternity.”

News >  Spokane

Loss of Glacier National Park’s Sperry Chalet leaves supporters wondering how to rebuild

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 1, 2017

After wildfire burned Glacier National Park’s historic

News >  Spokane

Spokane woman makes the most of her shot on Jeopardy!

UPDATED: Thu., March 2, 2017

Crista Calderon didn’t win her match on the long-running trivia mega hit Jeopardy!, but she had a lot fun trying.

News >  Spokane

Protesters in Spokane denounce Trump immigration orders

UPDATED: Sun., Jan. 29, 2017

Spokane protesters joined an eruption of anger and exasperation across the country as President Donald Trump’s campaign promise to stop the flow of immigrants from Muslim nations became reality with a sweeping executive order this weekend.

News >  Business

Anthony’s Beach Cafe and Cafe Rio Mexican Grill have closed after a year in business near South Hill Target store

Fri., Dec. 2, 2016

Two restaurants have closed within three days of each other in the new Regal Plaza south of Ferris High School where where Target now anchors a busy shopping center.

News >  Spokane

Triumph to sell West Plains airplane parts factory

Thu., Nov. 17, 2016

Triumph Group intends to sell its aircraft parts factory on the West Plains amid a companywide retrenching that has resulted in plant closures and consolidations across the country.

News >  Business

Washington farmers will collect $95 million from the federal government to offset low crop prices

Thu., Oct. 6, 2016

The federal government will pay about $95 million to 26,500 Washington farms to help offset the lowest crop prices in 10 years.

News >  Business

Boeing Employee Credit Union moving into Spokane market

Wed., Aug. 24, 2016

The largest credit union in Washington state is moving into the Spokane market next month. Boeing Employees Credit Union is a million-member heavyweight with $15 billion in assets. It began in 1935 when a group of Boeing employees pooled money with the aim of making loans in the thick of the Great Depression to new workers who needed to buy tools for the job.

News >  Spokane

Downed power line sparks 2,500-acre wildfire near Spangle

Sun., Aug. 21, 2016

A downed powerline sparked a wildfire about six miles northeast of Spangle that raced east Sunday evening through farm fields, brush and forest. Multiple homes, farm buildings and power poles burned but no one was reported hurt.

News >  Spokane

Triumph Composite workers strike; company seeks replacements

Tue., May 10, 2016

Workers at Spokane airplane parts plant Triumph Composite Systems go out on strike amid plans by the parent company to cut expenses by closing facilities.

News >  Spokane

Valley doctor fighting state accusations of dangerous prescription practices

Fri., April 1, 2016

A Spokane Valley doctor accused of recklessly writing prescriptions for painkillers said the state investigation is a vengeful effort to discredit his practice.

News >  Spokane

Jury convicts former VA doctor Craig Morgenstern of child sex abuse

Tue., March 1, 2016

Dr. Craig Morgenstern’s secret life as a serial child molester unspooled in front of a federal jury that convicted him Tuesday.