Conditions at Snoqualmie Pass on Interstate 90 improved this afternoon after a snow storm snarled eastbound traffic and caused a temporary stoppage this morning.
A significant Pacific storm has spread from the northwest coast across the Inland Northwest today and is expected to continue bringing moisture tonight through the early hours on Saturday.
A sunny sunrise today may have been pretty, but the temperatures are saying it is winter still.
Spokane International Airport reported 24 degrees at 7 a.m.
National Weather Service forecasters have dropped the chance of snow flurries from today's forecast, and are calling for mostly sunny skies as drier air moves into the region.
Tundra swans are moving through the Inland Northwest on their annual migration from wintering grounds in the western U.S. to the marshes of western Alaska.
A 25-year-old Colville man died Sunday evening from injuries suffered in a two-vehicle collision at the intersection of state Highway 25 and Old Kettle Road just south of Kettle Falls.
The nation’s economic slowdown is starting to take a toll on Spokane Transit Authority. Officials at the agency are proposing a small decrease in bus service starting in September, to be followed by potentially larger cuts of 7 percent each in 2011 and 2012.
Spring-like temperatures today are going to give way to a shot of late winter weather with snow expected in all but the lowest elevations of the region this week.
A dense fog advisory has been lifted for the Spokane and Coeur d’Alene areas, and forecasters are saying that this afternoon's sunny weather should continue Saturday and Sunday.
Fog in the Spokane and Coeur d’Alene areas this morning has lifted, but spring-like cumulus clouds are bringing a small threat of showers this afternoon.
Rain falling to the south and west of Spokane is expected to migrate northeastward during the day today, bringing mostly light precipitation to the region today.
By now it’s no secret. It’s been a mild winter. So mild, in fact, that the first two months of this year ranked as the fourth warmest January and February in Spokane since record keeping began in 1881.
The developer who originally wanted to build a 12-story condo tower on the site of the former downtown YMCA has submitted one of three proposals for redeveloping the facility under city ownership. The proposal by developer and real estate broker Mark Pinch is “way different” from the plan he had in 2006 when he offered to spend $5.3 million for the former YMCA building, he said on Tuesday.
The temperature in downtown Spokane reached 60 degrees at 3 p.m. today, making it the warmest day so far this year, but several degrees short of the record of 64 for the date.
One person was noticeably absent from last week’s gathering to celebrate the announcement of a $35 million federal stimulus grant for the North Spokane Corridor. U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., was not invited to the party.
Sunshine continues today across the Inland Northwest, and forecasters said the weather system that is bringing the fair weather should continue into Tuesday.
Sun has broken through a thick layer of freezing fog over the region today, and forecasters said they expect sun to continue through Monday, although another chance of fog is possible Friday night and Saturday morning.
Spokane’s long-sought North Side freeway got a boost on Wednesday with the announcement of a $35 million federal economic stimulus grant to pay for a 3.7-mile extension of the southbound lanes between Francis Avenue and Farwell Road. It was the only one of three grant applications from the Washington Department of Transportation to win funding in a $1.5 billion round of competition nationally.
A $35 million federal stimulus grant was announced this morning to extend work on a North Spokane freeway, according to the office of U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash.
A dense fog advisory has been lifted across the Spokane and Coeur d’Alene areas and extending westward into the Columbia Basin, and forecasters are sticking by their belief that low clouds will dissipate and reveal the sun this afternoon.
Several hours of light rain are expected across the Inland Northwest today in what appears to the last in a string of mild Pacific storms across the region.
