The GreenHouse Community Center is hoping to build a new home for itself in Deer Park. It has launched a capital funding campaign to raise money for the new center, which could get under construction next year.
This last taste of summer should be ending this evening across the Inland Northwest as the region undergoes a shift into a showery, cooler weather regime.
The last two days of summer weather will warm the Inland Northwest through Wednesday when a low pressure system begins to bring showers and cooler temperatures.
The state Department of Transportation announced on Monday that it plans to add a third lane to Interstate 90 in each direction from Sullivan Road to Barker Road, with the work beginning next spring. The Spokane Valley project is one of 21 highway projects statewide worth an estimated $112 million that will receive funding as a result of savings on construction contracts in recent years.
The Washington state Department of Transportation announced today that it plans to add a third lane to Interstate 90 in each direction from Sullivan Road to Barker Road with the work beginning next spring.
The newest installation of public art at Spokane International Airport is described as “a flock of alluring, complex, three-dimensional floating shapes.” Spokane Arts Director Karen Mobley goes on to say the work by fabric artist Louise Kodis “brightens and brings a lively energy to the airport rotunda with shapes that suggest dreams, ideas and facts about flying.”
The National Weather Service on Friday issued a blowing dust advisory for the upper Columbia Basin today. Winds gusting to 40 mph are predicted in the basin today when a cold front driven by a new low-pressure system crosses the region.
Tung Loon Garden at 3627 N. Division St. was festooned with red neon – so much that the sky above it would glow a warm red on cold, foggy nights. That neon is now the focus of an investigation into the late-night fire Tuesday that badly damaged the roof of the restaurant.
A Spokane fire investigator this morning said he is looking at the likelihood that a Tuesday night fire at Tung Loon restaurant on North Division was caused by an electrical malfunction.
With Tuesday’s rainstorm departing the region, today’s weather should be the start of a short-term warming trend.
Unfortunately, it won’t last long enough to make the Labor Day weekend a fully sunny affair.
Increasing clouds and a chance of rain is being forecast for today as an autumn-like storm moves over the Pacific Northwest from the cooler water of the North Pacific Ocean.
Another cool August day is in store for the region ahead of what may be the first chance for rain on Tuesday night as the summer season moves to an end.
Drivers on U.S. Highway 195 from Interstate 90 to South Hatch Road ought to be extra careful over the next two years. Law enforcement officers last week said they plan to put more patrols on that stretch of highway under a special safety program launched this month.
A pastor and widely recognized Spokane Valley businessman, concerned that a prowler was on his property late Wednesday, got out of bed, apparently armed himself with a pistol and headed toward a sedan in the empty parking lot of his popular nursery and greenhouse complex nearby. Moments later, gunfire erupted and W. Scott Creach, 74, collapsed with a fatal bullet wound to his chest after an apparent scuffle.
