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News >  Washington Voices

Trip to Netherlands honors well-known 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

Spokane native, a Rogers grad, among dead at Fort Hood

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

Wind advisory dropped

The National Weather Service has cancelled a wind advisory for the Spokane and Coeur d’Alene areas as well as the Columbia Basin and Palouse regions that had been issued this morning.
News >  Idaho

Incoming storm arrives tonight

A strong Pacific Ocean storm is poised to move into the Inland Northwest by tonight, but the weather today should be relatively mild and dry at the end of a nearly five-day run of calm weather.
News >  Spokane

Man follows his horses across America with one aim: to see it

PRIEST RIVER, Idaho – There is a man passing through the Inland Northwest right now who can tell you for a fact you are moving too fast. He’s traveled 7,000 miles in a covered wagon with a team of horses during the past three years, relying on the kindnesses of strangers and a few friends to keep him going.
News >  Washington Voices

Trip to Netherlands honors well-known 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.

Let it shine today; clouds, rain coming

Today should bring the last in a string of bright November days before another Pacific storm system moves onshore from the west on Thursday.
News >  Spokane

Mild winter on horizon

If you’ve been dreading another winter of heavy snow, something is happening thousands of miles away that might ease your mind. El Niño is brewing in the tropical Pacific Ocean, and it’s expected to keep temperatures above normal and snowfall below normal this winter in the Inland Northwest.
News >  Idaho

Sunny days, cold nights ahead

Sunny weather will take the chill off this morning’s air as highs this afternoon climb into the lower 50s in the Spokane and Coeur d’Alene areas.
News >  Spokane

End of the Spokane trolley line

The green trolley-replica buses that have been shuttling people across downtown for 15 years are going to the barn. Spokane Transit Authority is taking them out of service at the start of next year. Purchased in 1994 to dress up downtown Spokane, the trolleys have been more workhorses than tourist attractions, carrying commuters from the STA Plaza on West Riverside Avenue to a park-and-ride lot at the Spokane Arena.
News >  Idaho

Weather to bring more trick than treat

Halloween weather may be a little spooky as another in a series of Pacific storms moves toward the region late tonight, bringing wind gusts and a chance of showers by Saturday evening.
News >  Spokane

Cold snuffs blaze of color

If it seems to you the color in this year’s fall leaf crop has been less than glorious, you are right. Plant experts Tuesday said the hard freeze that struck the Inland Northwest from Oct. 10 through Oct. 12 damaged or killed leaves on many trees and probably caused other trees to drop leaves more quickly than normal.
A&E >  Food

Early freeze ruins colorful autumn

If it seems like the color in this year’s fall leaf crop was less than glorious, you are right. Plant experts on Tuesday said the hard freeze that struck the Inland Northwest from October 10 through 12 damaged or killed leaves on many trees and probably caused other trees to drop leaves more quickly than normal.
News >  Idaho

Chance of snow showers slight for today

The chance of rain or snow showers today appears slim, but a greater chance of wintry weather arrives on Thursday with the next Pacific storm system, forecasters said this morning.
News >  Idaho

Snow possible for lower elevations Tuesday

Snow levels are expected to drop from the mountains to the valley floors Tuesday morning, creating the possibility of the first snowfall of the season at lower elevations of the Inland Northwest.
News >  Spokane

Parents pressured to buckle

One in four children was not buckled in properly last week when they arrived by vehicle at three elementary schools in the Spokane area. Spokane police Officer Teresa Fuller said she encountered a family at Arlington Elementary School on the North Side where a 5- and 7-year-old were both buckled into the front seat, a double violation of the law.
News >  Spokane

Flurry of accidents, one fatality

A driver involved in an injury accident near Springdale, Wash., on Wednesday has a long history of driving under the influence and other offenses, including habitually driving with a suspended license. Michael J. Forsyth Jr., 42, was being held Friday on $50,000 bond in Stevens County Jail after a Washington state trooper arrested him Wednesday night.
News >  Spokane

Driver in injury accident has history of DUIs

A driver involved in an injury accident near Springdale, Wash., on Wednesday has a long history of driving under the influence and other offenses, including habitually driving with a suspended license.
News >  Idaho

Rain creating traffic hazards

Moderate rainfall today is creating traffic hazards as storm drains, partly blocked by fall foliage in some cases, are having trouble keeping up with all the water.
News >  Spokane

Two held in fire at building transients used as shelter

A man and a woman taken into custody during a downtown blaze Thursday morning are being charged with second-degree arson, Spokane fire officials said. Windy M. Garland, 22, was arrested as she left the fire at the boarded-up, two-story State Street Flats, 164 S. State St., authorities said.