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News >  Spokane

Preservation project planned at rural Spokane farmhouse

When Pam Gray and her husband, Steven, bought a former Franciscan spirituality center southeast of Spokane, they thought that the property’s converted farmhouse would have to be demolished. They purchased the Clare Center and its 148-acre estate from the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration, of LaCrosse, Wisconsin, in 2013 with plans to build a new home on an upper portion of the acreage.
News >  Spokane

SCRAPS to host grand opening celebration for new facility

The public is invited to the official “leash cutting” ceremony Saturday for the Spokane region’s new $5.7 million animal shelter. Saturday’s event brings to a close nearly seven years of planning and debate by city and county governments on how to improve and consolidate animal control services.
Sports >  Outdoors

Summer rebounds

Skies are clearing off today and should mostly stay that way into early next week. Temperatures are expected to quickly rebound to the upper 70s today to about 85 on Sunday.
News >  Spokane

TSA opens PreCheck enrollment office in Spokane Valley

Spokane airline travelers tired of long security lines now have a local office to enroll in a TSA program for expedited screening. The Transportation Security Administration has opened an office in Spokane Valley where travelers can go to show proof of identity and to be fingerprinted for a background check. If they pass, they’ll be issued a Known Traveler Number, which gives them access to TSA’s PreCheck lines at 118 airports around the country, including Spokane.
News >  Spokane

Enforcement of Spokane sit-lie law stirs critics

Spokane police have issued 32 tickets since the first of the year enforcing a law making it illegal to sit or lie on sidewalks and planters in the downtown area. Capt. Brad Arleth said the citations were handed out to 22 people, with several of them getting more than one citation.
News >  Spokane

Spokane City Council aims to protect honeybees

The same Spokane City Council that legalized the raising of small farm animals in March is now taking aim at protecting honeybees. Council President Ben Stuckart has introduced an ordinance that would ban city purchase and use of a relatively new class of insecticides known as neonicotinoids.
News >  Spokane

Spokane police seek warrant in 2012 shooting death

Spokane police detectives say they have solved a December 2012 homicide and want to bring a suspect now held in a Florida federal prison to Spokane to face a murder charge. Bud Ray Brown, 31, is accused of shooting David Brandon Deponte, 28, multiple times in the head in a dispute involving a woman, police said.
News >  Spokane

Getting There: State Route 904 section to be repaved

Highway construction has descended on western Spokane County this month with a series of repaving projects getting underway. The busy section of state Route 904 from Betz Road in Cheney to the Four Lakes interchange with Interstate 90 will undergo resurfacing starting today.
News >  Spokane

Group hoping county will buy, preserve section of South Hill

A group of Spokane residents is asking Spokane County to save a 23-acre piece of South Hill bluff from a condominium development. Friends of the Bluff wants the county’s Conservation Futures program to purchase the land at a potential cost of $2.8 million – the price the developer currently has set for the land.
Sports >  Outdoors

Weekend weather: Cool, stormy forecast ahead

Things could get all fired up on the weather front over the next few days. Today should start out pretty nice with warm temperatures and partly sunny skies. Then, the weather is expected to change dramatically.
News >  Spokane

Spokane County must refund taxes to broadband provider

Spokane County has been ordered to repay a government-based broadband provider for property taxes that should never have been collected. County commissioners on Tuesday voted to borrow $50,000 from the county treasurer’s investment pool to finance the refund.
News >  Spokane

Mumm: Crosswalks should be prioritized

The city of Spokane has inadequate policies for installing marked crosswalks to protect pedestrians crossing busy streets, according to one City Council member. City engineers and developers should be required to give greater consideration to pedestrian safety, said Councilwoman Candace Mumm.
Sports >  Outdoors

Weekend promises beautiful weather

Some of the nicest weather of the spring is in store for the next several days with plenty of sunshine and highs in the middle 70s to about 80. The low air pressure that brought thunderstorms to the region Monday and Tuesday has long departed.
News >  Spokane

Urban growth debate resumes as county commissioners hold state-ordered hearing

Spokane County commissioners got a mixed reaction from the public Tuesday in their attempt to expand the county’s urban growth area in the face of a rejection of the plan by a state review board. The commissioners approved a 4,100-acre expansion last July, which was rejected in November by the state’s Growth Management Hearings Board after the review board ruled that commissioners made mistakes in projecting future population.
News >  Idaho

Hit-or-miss storm floods city streets

A second round of thunderstorms is predicted across the Inland Northwest tonight as an upper-level low pressure area sends a new wave of storm energy across the area during peak afternoon warming, forecasters said this morning.
News >  Pacific NW

Blasting east of pass will close interstate

The sixth year of construction to widen Interstate 90 east of Snoqualmie Pass promises to bring more delays for drivers during this construction season. Hourlong closures for rock blasting have resumed along Keechelus Lake, where the freeway is being widened from four to six lanes over a 5-mile stretch.
News >  Spokane

Urban growth input sought

The public can weigh in Tuesday on Spokane County’s attempt to open 4,100 acres to denser development. County commissioners approved the expansion of the “urban growth area” last year to places such as the West Plains, the area north of Mead, parts of Spokane Valley and Glenrose Prairie.
News >  Pacific NW

Pend Oreille River to hit lowered flood stage

Warm weather starting today is expected to trigger renewed runoff from the higher elevations of the Rockies, sending the Pend Oreille River above flood stage next week, forecasters said Thursday. Because of flooding problems downstream from Newport, Washington, in recent years, the federal government announced Thursday that it is lowering the threshold flow for minor flooding on the Pend Oreille from 100,000 to 95,000 cubic feet per second. The mean flow in 2013 was 24,590 cfs.