Nicholas Deshais

Real Life Ministries, a Post Falls-based evangelical megachurch, is planning a $9 million expansion, including the construction of a 41,000-square-foot field house with three basketball courts and two lighted outdoor artificial turf fields.

Jan Richart, who owns the Vintage Rabbit Antique Mall, lays blame for her business’s closure squarely with the city and the planned renovation of Monroe between Northwest Boulevard and the base of the North Hill.

Way back when, corner groceries and next-door bakeries were commonplace in neighborhoods, walking distance for everyday staples in the time before cars. With the raging popularity of the automobile in the last century, neighborhoods homogenized, becoming purely residential. City planners set rules segregating where we live from where we shop.

For the span of just a few hours each year, it’s safe to stroll along Fort George Wright Drive near Spokane Falls Community College. Just you and 50,000 other people on the first Sunday in May. Other than on Bloomsday, however, walking along the four-lane arterial is a bit sketchy.

The 110-year-old McClintock-Trunkey building, 119 South Stevens, was constructed in 1907 and housed an early grocery wholesale distributor.

The concrete staircase connecting the Peaceful Valley neighborhood below the Maple Street Bridge to Riverside Avenue has been demolished by the city during its work to install a massive stormwater basin. No forewarning was given, and the city didn’t seek a demolition permit, but Julie Happy, a spokeswoman with the city, said not to worry. The city-owned steps will be back.

Roen Associates Inc., a Spokane-based construction consulting firm, has leased a historic downtown building once occupied by Kenneth Brooks, a renowned midcentury architect and urban planner. The 3,090-square-foot, two-story office building at 121 South Wall St. is a step for the Spokane company, which occupied a smaller building at 1526 West Riverside before the move.

Signaling shift towards alternative transportation, City Council drops two ‘auto-centric’ items from growth plan

In 2016, reporter Nick Deshais visited the Korean Demilitarized Zone. As tensions heat up over reports of North Korea’s nuclear capabilities, he reflects back on that trip and the impression it left on him.

The cabins will be built at the Riverside State Park campground just six miles from downtown Spokane. Each will be 400-square-feet, overlook the Spokane River and include plumbing and electricity. They’ll have private bathrooms, but no kitchen.

City officials aren’t too concerned about the rogue paint job, but it seems unlikely to remain.

Four years ago, an idea came out of Spokane City Hall to transform East Sprague. It’s beginning to work.

The oldest brick streets – likely the oldest streets in Spokane – run for just two blocks on Madison Street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues and from Eighth to Ninth avenues. Those streets were laid with brick on Aug. 8, 1906, two years before Henry Ford introduced the Model T.

The final phase of a revamped downtown Spokane Larry H. Miller auto campus is underway, as the Salt Lake City-based dealer broke ground this week for its city block-size Honda showroom and parking lot.

Dutch Jake’s Park, at Broadway Avenue and Chestnut Street, is one of Spokane’s smallest parks. Opened in 1976, the unpolished lot-sized park has a reputation as being more of a hangout than playground. After the more than $400,000 is spent – a combination of $60,000 in federal Community Development Block Grants, $150,000 in parks funding and a $200,000 anonymous donation – the park will look very different.

Keep your eyes to the sky. The largest air war exercise seen in the Pacific Northwest began Monday with more than 3,700 military personnel from 30 countries descending on the region’s Air Force bases, including Fairchild Air Force Base.

A six-story parking garage will rise in the burgeoning west end marketed as the “entertainment district.”

Thunderbirds show featured for this weekend’s Skyfest 2017 at Fairchild Air Force Base.

Visit nearly any American city and a bike awaits you. Kiosks filled with bikes for rent populate the cores of New York, Boston, Minneapolis, Chicago, Portland and 113 other cities in the country. University towns such as Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Pullman, have bike share programs, as do the campuses of Yale, Ohio State, Purdue and Princeton universities. Smaller cities like Rapid City, South Dakota, and Clarksville, Tennessee, have them.

Telect Inc., a Liberty Lake-based telecommunications hardware company, has sold to a giant in the industry, Amphenol Corp.

The best seats on Spokane Transit Authority’s new 60-foot buses are halfway back, right in front of the articulated, accordion elbow. Sit alone on a single seat, with a little bench for your bag or groceries. But there’s a good chance you won’t be alone. The buses have capacity for more than 100 people, and run on the busiest routes, up North Division Street, and to Eastern Washington University and Liberty Lake.

As a teenager, John Conley built airstrips in the South Pacific during World War II. He came home to build one of the most iconic stores in Spokane.

Gonzaga students have spent time in Cagli, Italy for a dozen years, and now a group of Italian students will be coming to Spokane. The exchanges are paving the way for Spokane to name a sixth Sister City in the fall.