Treva Lind

Regional dental offices affiliated with Smile Source will offer a day of free dental care Saturday for people who can’t afford certain treatments, including extractions, fillings and emergency care.

The morning after last year’s Labor Day concert, Spokane Symphony bass player Patrick McNally felt a strange numbness run down the left side of his body. He felt weak. So McNally sat down with his iPhone to search his symptoms.

In the ’70s and ’80s, giant beer bottles with humanoid legs ran in herds across TV screens in Spokane and around the region.

Arc of Spokane has opened a respite house for overnight stays by people with intellectual or developmental disabilities.

Each year in May, the senior community Touchmark on South Hill holds its A-MAY-Zing Race.

The joint disease osteoarthritis is thought to be on the rise, partly because of active baby boomers and higher U.S. obesity rates. It occurs from the wearing down of protective joint cartilage, leaving bones rubbing together.

Spark Central: 5 things to know

Noble Brewer has lived 106 years with life in motion.

What to do if you’ve signed up last minute for Bloomsday, without any training? Perhaps you plan a leisurely walk, but here are tips to do at a minimum to prepare for a healthier race day.

Don’t just sign up the kids in classes to paint or dance. Several spring programs in the region extend educational fun shared by both parent and child. Here are five such fun learning options in the Spokane area.

Mischa Keeling has since childhood dealt with an inherited blood disorder some call the vampire disease or King George’s madness. The Spokane Valley resident finally received a diagnosis about five years ago for porphyria, which has caused excruciating pain, red or purplish urine, skin reactions from the sun and other complications.

Using 25 newly purchased ukuleles in various colors, kindergarteners at Millwood Kindergarten Center in West Valley started playing the small instruments this spring as part of regular music sessions. The site has 231 students, ages 5 to 6. Two to three during the week, each of its classes has 30-minute music instruction. Earlier in the school year, they learn basics like singing, counting in rhythm, and playing simple instruments, before introduction of the ukulele.

Singer Huey Lewis put Ménière’s disease into the spotlight as it impacts hearing loss, when last week he announced the cancellation of his 2018 tour, including a stop at Northern Quest Resort and Casino.

Laura Schlangen, turning 88 next week, thinks travel keeps her young. She’s gone on roughly 80 travel tours in the last 26 years. Up next are trips to Arizona, then Iceland in the fall.

“The Opioid Epidemic” will be presented April 19 by Dr. David Tauben, pain medicine expert and University of Washington School of Medicine professor

Tips for keeping you and Fido healthy while running.

Spokane author Sarah Mackenzie offers tips on how families can set aside a few minutes each week for continuing to read aloud as a family – well past children’s early years – for benefits such as improved relationships, conversations, and gains from hearing out loud a book’s grammar and rich language.

What’s PiYo? The high-intensity fitness class fuses part yoga, Pilates, body conditioning and some cardio to increase flexibility, strengthen muscles, tighten the body’s core, and burn fat.

To help children bounce back when bad things happen, experts point mainly to the role of a caring adult in the youth’s life, among other strategies. More than 360 volunteers in Spokane County’s PrimeTime Mentoring program have stepped into such a role about an hour once a week.

Digitized records and newer sleuthing tips can bring you closer to ancestors.

Called Juul by brand name – or “juuling” on the street – the vaping device has lit up attention both for its popularity and public health warnings that the discreet, slim rectangular design and sweet vapors make them appealing to youth.