Thomas Clouse

The fire season erupted in a deadly way this weekend as a fire ignited hear Highway 97 early Saturday and then raced through the the hills across the Columbia River from Chelan.

For the past 14 years, Spokane residents learned about upcoming sales and promotions at Fred’s Appliance through the voice and face of Amber George.

Avista Corp. confirmed Tuesday that the “large load” customer seeking a massive amount of electricity is in fact a proposed data center.

The sheer power of the F-16 Fighting Falcon at afterburner caused vibrations in the concrete. As it exited, the screaming roar of the engine of the jet flown by U.S. Air Force Maj. Taylor Hiester put the fighter into a climb that literally made his body nine times heavier than on the ground. 

Avista has entered into a memorandum of understanding with one "large load" customer, but details of the business – and if it's a data center – were not released.

Haley Schelin's co-worker walked outside of their office on June 29, 2025, and snapped a cellphone photo of smoke on Canfield Mountain in Coeur d'Alene. "Have we got calls on this?" the dispatcher asked Schelin, 31, who is the assistant center manger for the Coeur d'Alene Interagency Dispatch. That afternoon quickly escalated. 

Visit Spokane, while celebrating its 50-year-anniversary, announced this week that Spokane welcomed more than 10 million visitors in 2025 who generated an estimated $1.55 billion economic impact. 

The ownership of Spokane's professional soccer teams abruptly dissolved the Zephyr, the women's team, as it struggled to meet payment deadlines and attendance fell.