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News >  Idaho

Holiday travel conditions fair

Weather over the Thanksgiving holiday continues to be mostly favorable for travelers, with the next Pacific weather system holding off until Thursday night and Friday.
News >  Idaho

Travel weather still looking good

Travel weather over the Thanksgiving holiday continues to be mostly favorable, although a pair of Pacific weather systems should bring precipitation today and Thanksgiving night.
News >  Idaho

Weather mostly favorable for travel

The Inland Northwest should be spared winter-like weather during most of the Thanksgiving holiday period, although fog could be a problem at mid-week, forecasters said this morning.
News >  Spokane

Trail’s a natural extension

The Spokane end of a long-envisioned trail to Fish Lake in southwest Spokane County has opened to riders and walkers, and is already being discovered even in the damp, cool days of November. “It’s fantastic,” said John Rowicki, of Spokane, after completing a round-trip bicycle ride on the newly paved path.
News >  Spokane

Fire damages power turbine at mill

About 40 workers at the Vaagen Bros. Lumber mill in Colville were sent home Thursday after a fire in the mill’s turbine and electrical equipment disabled operations. Russ Vaagen, the plant’s vice president, said he expects that workers will return as operations are restored over the next few weeks.
News >  Idaho

Heavy snow possible in northern Wash.

The National Weather Service today has issued a winter weather advisory and warning for Okanogan, Ferry, Stevens, Pend Oreille and far northern portions of Spokane counties.
News >  Spokane

Her daughter’s legacy takes firm root

Abe Lincoln got some company Tuesday. Three European hornbeam trees were planted in a triangular traffic island at Main Avenue and Monroe Street where a statue of Lincoln stands.
News >  Idaho

Warm air arrives ahead of storm front

Mild temperatures at daybreak were coming from the warm sector of a broad Pacific storm system that is battering the West Coast this morning with wind, rain and snow in the higher elevations of the Cascades.
News >  Spokane

Riding out the recession

It wasn’t long ago that the Spokane Transit Authority was riding high. Boardings were up nearly 50 percent, and the agency’s cash reserve had grown thanks to voter approval of a sales tax increase earlier this decade.
News >  Spokane

Storm serves up wintry appetizer

Motorists struggled with a slippery Friday evening commute as the first snow of the season fell across much of the Inland Northwest. Authorities reported numerous collisions but no serious injuries on the slick roads. The National Weather Service had issued a hazardous outlook report through the evening.
News >  Idaho

Snow covers landscape

Snow covered higher elevations in Spokane and the surrounding region this afternoon, but forecasters said the storm that brought it is moving east tonight.
News >  Spokane

There could be snow as you’re reading this

A National Weather Service forecaster said Thursday the region’s first significant snow could fall this morning, but he didn’t expect accumulations to become a major traffic hazard. A fast-moving cold front out of the Gulf of Alaska has enough cold air and moisture to bring snow to the valley floor, but it may not be cold enough to cause icy conditions on roadways, forecaster Matt Fugazzi said.
News >  Idaho

Friday morning snow may not stick to roads

National Weather Service forecaster this afternoon that the region’s first significant snowfall could strike Friday morning, but they don’t expect accumulations to become a major traffic hazard.
News >  Washington Voices

Trip to Netherlands honors local war hero

A group of Inland Northwest residents, including family members of a local war hero, gathered in Best, Netherlands, earlier this fall to mark the 65th anniversary of the Allied liberation of the Low Countries in World War II. Pfc. Joe E. Mann, who was born in Reardan, was awarded a Congressional Medal of Honor posthumously for his valor along a Dutch canal during the operation in September 1944.
News >  Spokane

Air agency settles suit

The Spokane Regional Clean Air Agency has agreed to settle a lawsuit out of court for violating the state’s Open Meetings Act in 2006. The settlement was approved last week by the agency’s board of directors, which had been the target of the suit filed in 2008 by the Center for Justice in Spokane.
News >  Spokane

Weather Service says snow could fall this week

Cooler weather is opening the possibility of snowfall in lower elevations of the Inland Northwest on Thursday and Saturday mornings, a forecaster said Monday. Rain or snow is expected Wednesday night and Thursday morning, forecaster John Livingston of the National Weather Service said.
News >  Spokane

Family man loved working at clinic

Family members of Michael Grant Cahill, a Spokane native killed at Fort Hood, Texas, on Thursday waited for hours after the shooting rampage with no word of his whereabouts. They called hospitals and other facilities where victims were taken and got nothing.