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News >  Spokane

Sculptor hopes MAC piece sparks cooperative feeling

Walla Walla sculptor Brad Rude merges the bronze likenesses of a mule deer, coyote and owl, one on top of the other, in a new sculpture on the grounds of the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture in Spokane. The figures, standing among rocks on a miniature replica of a fire lookout tower, are made to evoke the wildlife and environment of the Inland Northwest.
News >  Idaho

Rain to fall through tonight

Light rain is reaching Spokane area and should continue into the evening as a Pacific frontal system brings the next in a series of rainstorms to the Inland Northwest.
News >  Spokane

Pesky bug infestation an ‘environmental wonder’

The smokey-winged ash aphid – that little gray-blue critter flittering around tree-lined residential areas in the Inland Northwest this month – is a harmless but sometimes annoying insect that typically emerges when the weather turns cooler in October, a plant expert said Tuesday.
News >  Idaho

Fog cuts visibility this morning

A dense fog advisory was issued this morning by the National Weather Service for reduced visibilities on the higher bench and plateau elevations of the Inland Northwest.
News >  Spokane

Vintage steam train continues journey through Spokane

Rail fans converged on downtown Spokane on Monday with the arrival of a historic steam locomotive on its westward journey to its home in Portland. The locomotive is pulling a train of 16 vintage cars with names like the California Zephyr Silver Solarium.
News >  Spokane

Autopsy shows homicide caused death

The Spokane County Medical Examiner ruled that a 25-year-old man whose body was found wrapped in a blanket along Day-Mt. Spokane Road on Sunday morning died from homicidal violence.
News >  Spokane

Students envision Palouse’s new track

Teams of students from Washington State and Eastern Washington universities are asking for the public’s help in their efforts to visualize what renewed rail service on the Palouse might look like some day. They’ve posted a survey on the Web and are asking people to participate in ideas for the future.
News >  Spokane

The hardest harvest

Greg Lipsker, co-founder of Barrister Winery in Spokane, found himself in a cold vineyard near Pasco just after midnight Tuesday waiting to rescue wine grapes from last weekend’s freeze. He was part of a frenzy that overtook the wine-growing region of Washington this week as growers and winemakers hustled to harvest and crush their fruit after lows hit 20 degrees in the vineyards.
News >  Idaho

Man steps in front of train in Post Falls

Traffic was backed up in Post Falls earlier this morning from when an unidentified man stepped in front of a moving train at a major railroad crossing, according to Idaho State Police.
News >  Spokane

Naples mill set to close

A Naples, Idaho, sawmill employing 93 workers is expected to be shuttered in December and its workers laid off indefinitely. Welco Lumber Company USA, which makes cedar picket fence boards, announced Thursday that it can operate more efficiently by closing the mill south of Bonners Ferry and concentrating production at its main Shelton, Wash., sawmill.
News >  Idaho

Four adults die of apparent swine flu

Three more Spokane County residents have died from swine flu, and a death in North Idaho also is being investigated as a possible H1N1 case, public health officials announced Thursday. Two of the Spokane County cases and the North Idaho case involve otherwise healthy people. It is the fourth swine-flu death of a Spokane County resident since September.
News >  Idaho

Sun, high clouds replace rain for now

Drier weather today and Friday will give the Inland Northwest a break in a weather pattern that is likely to bring more wet Pacific storms through next week.
News >  Idaho

Rain easing but showers expected

Moderate rainfall overnight is continuing today as the second wave in a complex storm system moves into Eastern Washington and North Idaho.
News >  Spokane

Looks like rain ahead, higher temperatures

The dry northerly flow over the past 12 days that whipped up gusts and brought several nights of freezing conditions is changing to its weather opposite – a mild moist flow with periods of rain through the weekend. National Weather Service meteorologists said that about a half-inch of rain can be expected through Friday in Spokane and the Columbia Basin, while Coeur d’Alene could see 0.64 inches. As much as an inch of precipitation could fall in the mountains, and snow levels will vary from 4,500 feet to 6,000 feet in elevation.
News >  Idaho

Rain slowly moving this way

The cold northerly flow that’s whipped up dust, set records for cold and damaged fruit crops is being replaced tonight by a more typical kind of fall weather – rain.
News >  Spokane

Morning blaze devastates dachshund rescue group

Margo Mossburg and her friends from Dachshund Rescue NW and the Dachshund Club of Spokane buried seven of Mossburg’s dachshunds in a field behind her house Monday just hours after the dogs were killed in a raging fire. The animals were held in kennels inside a detached garage and never had a chance to get out when the 6:30 a.m. fire broke out at 9209 N. Brooks Road, near the intersection of West Coulee Hite Road west of Spokane.
News >  Spokane

Sprague gets finishing touches

A large project to fix Sprague Avenue’s aging pavement through Spokane Valley is wrapping up with striping of the newly smoothed lanes. Workers from a Spokane company pushed an extruder over the new blacktop to lay a polymer filled with glass beads for the new lane lines.