Stories by Thomas Clouse for the Spokesman-Review

News > Transportation

More people traveled through Spokane International Airport than ever in 2024

UPDATED: Thu., Feb. 20, 2025

Spokane International Airport set a new record for air travel in 2024, which is a year that saw several changes to the regional travel hub.

News > Business

Frontier Airlines announces new flights from Spokane to Denver

UPDATED: Wed., Feb. 19, 2025

Frontier Airlines announced Tuesday that it will launch several new flights to regional airports, including service to-and-from Denver from Spokane International Airport.

News > Weather

Spokane area should see more snow, then warming trend

UPDATED: Mon., Feb. 17, 2025

The weather system that recently dumped inches of snow over the region apparently is not yet done with the Lilac City. The forecast calls for up to an inch of snow Tuesday night into Wednesday morning.

News > Local business

Local U-Haul franchise fined $231K for asbestos violation

UPDATED: Sun., Feb. 16, 2025

State regulators have fined a local U-Haul franchise $231,000 after inspectors discovered the company had not properly dealt with floor tiles that were found to contain asbestos.

News > Business

Gobsmacked by groceries: Inflation inching higher for Washington consumers weary at the market

Sun., Feb. 16, 2025

In a December interview after winning the election for president, Donald Trump credited his win at the polls on two topics: immigration and the economy.

News > Business

Spokane Valley man leads class-action lawsuit against makers of Gore-Tex

UPDATED: Wed., Feb. 12, 2025

A Seattle law firm, on behalf of a Spokane Valley man, has filed a class-action civil lawsuit against the maker of Gore-Tex, a synthetic waterproof membrane that revolutionized outdoor gear, over concerns that the company is misleading customers about the presence of harmful forever chemicals.

News > Local business

Seattle attorney firm purchases Spokane’s Glover Mansion

UPDATED: Mon., Feb. 10, 2025

A Seattle law firm has purchased the home of Spokane's founder, James N. Glover, and plans to transition the Glover Mansion from an events-and-wedding venue to a fulltime law office.

News > Crime/Public Safety

A then-Sandpoint man and his brother were charged following the capitol riot. Then Trump began his second term

UPDATED: Mon., Feb. 10, 2025

Two days before Joe Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election over Donald Trump, then-Sandpoint resident Michael A. Pope messaged his brother in Topeka, Kansas. "Trump needs to pick up a pistol and finish this," Pope wrote his brother, William A. Pope, on Nov. 5, 2020.

News > Business

The Dirt: Detox center planned for Spokane Valley

Sun., Feb. 9, 2025

Plans for a new detox facility, which first surfaced in 2022, continue to advance for a site on North Evergreen Road in Spokane Valley.

News > Business

Spokane hosting range management conference

UPDATED: Fri., Feb. 7, 2025

About 1,000 visitors to Spokane are expected next week as part of the The Society for Range Management, which will host a convention in starting Sunday.

News > Spokane

Dozens gather in downtown Spokane to protest Elon Musk

UPDATED: Tue., Feb. 4, 2025

Snowy streets, heavy coats and runny noses punctuated the ringing cries and responding honks Tuesday as about 70 people gathered outside the federal courthouse in downtown Spokane to protest the unusual involvement by billionaire Elon Musk in the early workings of the second administration of Donald Trump.

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Trump tariffs target Washington’s top three export markets. Here’s how that might change your bills

UPDATED: Tue., Feb. 4, 2025

Americans should expect prices for items including new homes, cars, cell phones and groceries to jump if trade wars break out with Mexico, Canada and China, local experts say.

News > Agriculture

WSU announces grass strain that doesn’t need burning

Sun., Feb. 2, 2025

Washington State University has developed a new strain of grass. And no, it's definitely not for smoking.

News > Local business

Development firm purchases DoubleTree at Spokane Convention Center

Wed., Jan. 29, 2025

The new owner of DoubleTree by Hilton Spokane City Center said that it plans major upgrades to the hotel that it recently purchased.

News > Sci/Tech

Star gazers get rare conditions to see several planets at once Saturday: ‘Very, very special’

UPDATED: Fri., Jan. 24, 2025

While planets circle the sun in what's called and heliocentric orbit, they rarely fall together in what appears to the human eye as somewhat of line across the visible horizon. Saturday is one of those times.

News > Crime/Public Safety

WSU is liable in Sam Martinez hazing death, appellate judges rule

UPDATED: Fri., Jan. 24, 2025

Appellate judges this week reversed an earlier dismissal and instead have now ruled that Washington State University could be held legally responsible for not helping protect a student who died during a hazing event in 2019.

News > Local business

Coeur d’Alene-based bankcda opens branch in Spokane

UPDATED: Fri., Jan. 24, 2025

Coeur d’Alene-based bankcda announced this week that it is opening a new branch in Spokane.

News > Local business

Spokane RV show brings glamping to new levels: ‘You live in the best place in the world … you should check out where you live’

UPDATED: Fri., Jan. 24, 2025

It's cold in Spokane, which means its time to dream about dumping one's retirement savings into a towable example of opulence.

News > Crime/Public Safety

One person dead, others injured, by overdose in Spokane

UPDATED: Wed., Jan. 22, 2025

One person died and several others were taken to a hospital Wednesday from a downtown Spokane motel after an apparent overdose.

News > Business

Schweitzer Engineering Labs announces leadership change

UPDATED: Fri., Jan. 17, 2025

For the first time since its founding, Pullman-based Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories won't take its strategic direction from someone named Schweitzer.

News > Weather

Winter temperatures mark beginning of prolonged cold spell throughout Spokane area

UPDATED: Fri., Jan. 17, 2025

Spokane-area mountains will block some of the arctic blast that is pushing frigid temperatures south over much of the country this weekend, but the colder temperatures likely will remain here for the duration of winter, according to the long-term forecast.

News > Local business

Tech Hub building’s past tied to airplane interiors in Spokane

Wed., Jan. 15, 2025

The building at the center of the local winning bid to establish a Tech Hub, started as an eastward expansion of Boeing that took advantage of another influential perk: the Lilac City being home to a rather influential politician at the time.

News > Local business

Wheatland Bank holding company acquires Bank of Idaho

UPDATED: Mon., Jan. 13, 2025

The holding company for Wheatland Bank, which has two branches in Spokane and several in Eastern Washington, has signed an agreement to acquire the Idaho Falls-based Bank of Idaho.

News > Local business

‘She was cherished by everybody’: Former CEO of Pearson Packaging Pam Senske dies

UPDATED: Mon., Jan. 13, 2025

Pam Senske came back to the Spokane-based company, that her father founded, as a non-paid advisor in the early 1980s. It led to a decades-long run that ended when she finally stepped down last February from serving on its board of directors.

News > Business

Macy’s closing store in Coeur d’Alene

UPDATED: Fri., Jan. 10, 2025

The parent company of Macy's announced this week that it will be closing several dozen stores, which includes its Coeur d'Alene location at the Silver Lake Mall.

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