Archives | October 2025

• This day in history: ‘I want to have a woman arrested for wearing men’s pants.’ Grocery checkouts and TV were about to be revolutionized

• More Idaho children are losing health insurance. Here’s what we know

• A Grip on Sports: It’s not even the legal equivalent of halftime, but the Pac-12 takes a big lead over the Mountain West in poaching lawsuit due to a ruling Tuesday

• Gonzaga lands surprise commitment from German combo guard Jack Kayil

• Watching history: Cal Raleigh’s teammates, Mariners brass reflect on all-time season

All stories for Oct. 1, 2025 »

• Closed church finds second life: West Central neighborhood gets a new community hub

• Ingrid Jacques: Democrats got their shutdown, but they just gave Trump and DOGE a big win

• This day in history: The final family left a West Side Vietnamese refugee camp, and a century ago, a remote pioneer schoolhouse got press

• Gardening: Hold on to some fall color by preserving leaves

• A Grip On Sports: The NCAA does one thing really well – making everyone wait while the organization drags its feet

All stories for Oct. 2, 2025 »

• Steve Vigus has a race T-shirt collection beyond even most other Bloomsday Perennials’

• This day in history: The suspect in a brazen shopping mall attack in Utah had a local tie and, eventually, an infamous reputation

• Artist and teacher Karen Rohn named Idaho K-12 Art Educator of the Year

• A Grip on Sports: Another chapter of Inland Northwest basketball history closes with Don Monson’s passing Wednesday

• Encouraging week for Gonzaga culminates with Kraziness in Kennel showcase

All stories for Oct. 3, 2025 »

• Sara Pequeño: MAGA’s Bad Bunny meltdown proves he was the right choice for Super Bowl 2026

• Michelle Goldberg: An anti-fascist movie at a fascist moment

• This day in history: Sewage was coming to the Spokane River – on purpose

• A Grip on Sports: Watching sports on a Saturday night like this one should be a team event. There is just too much to cover and one key player is out due to a coach’s decision

• Gonzaga’s depth, elite frontcourt duo both on display during Kraziness in Kennel event

All stories for Oct. 4, 2025 »

• George F. Will: America’s can-do spirit needs liberation from can’t-do regulation

• This day in history: Spokane’s Flour Mill was taking on new life as a shopping mall three years after its last agricultural use

• A Grip on Sports: The Mariners offense was a bloody mess Saturday night and as a result their World Series hopes were wounded quite a bit

• Huskies’ short-handed defense plays key role in rally past Maryland

• Back from the dead, UCLA and Florida revel in their resuscitation

All stories for Oct. 5, 2025 »

• This day in history: Panel recommends new juvenile justice system for Spokane youths; Former Detroit Tigers and Spokane Indians player named celebrity announcer for Chronicle’s World Series calls

• A year after buying church from Messiah Lutheran, hundreds fill pews of St. Mary’s Ethiopian Orthodox Church for holiday and feast

• Then and Now: Spokane Brewing office

• A Grip on Sports: The ultimate aspect of an ‘if-only” weekend in Seattle? ‘If only’ the Mariners had held on to win Saturday

• Pac-12 (2.0) power rankings: Fresno State, San Diego State on the upswing as they prepare to change conferences

All stories for Oct. 6, 2025 »

• This day in history: A boy was being held in his parents’ shooting deaths, and a deadly fire broke out at an Indian boarding school

• Julio Rodríguez’s evolution powers Mariners’ surge in postseason

• A Grip on Sports: It’s always important to take notes, especially this time of the year when worlds are colliding

• UW coach Jedd Fisch pleased by growth on Huskies’ offensive, defensive lines

• ALDS: How Mariners’ Gabe Speier became the ‘best lefty reliever in the big leagues’

All stories for Oct. 7, 2025 »

• Bing’s Day: Mary Crosby to visit Spokane for Sprague renaming

• This day in history: The Spokane Coliseum was a-rockin’, maybe too much for city officials

• Gonzaga’s nonconference game against Oregon to air on NBC streaming platform

• A Grip on Sports: It’s time to celebrate another year running past, though what happened late last night seemed to make time stand still

• Week 6 prep football preview: Gonzaga Prep, Mt. Spokane stay solid in state polls; Mead focuses with big games looming

All stories for Oct. 8, 2025 »

• Gardening: Time to drain the hoses, pick the final vegetables

• This day in history: A proposed annexation caused a very even divide

• Bloomsday Perennial: Maurice Ray made it 10 years before considering his races a streak, but he’s still committed decades later

• First Story gifts keys to Spokane family during home dedication event

• A landmark occasion: St. John’s celebrates a century since site dedicated

All stories for Oct. 9, 2025 »

• This day in history: A Spokane sewage dump sparked massive contamination jump in river; worker injured in electrical accident

• Treasuries rise on signs government shutdown is hurting economy

• A Grip on Sports: Will there be joy in Mudville, aka Seattle, tonight? Or will the Tigers and Tarik Skubal rain on the M’s parade?

• Gonzaga to appear on national networks 17 times during regular season

• Qatari facility to be built in Idaho, Defense Secretary Hegseth says

All stories for Oct. 10, 2025 »

• This day in history: Spokane law legend Carl Maxey filed a $3 million suit against the city over its intentional river dumping

• A Grip on Sports: Though the box score swears it was the Mariners, exhaustion finally won last night, at least for those of us who watched at home

• WSU OL Christian Hilborn out against No. 4 Ole Miss with apparent knee injury

• Remaking Victor Wembanyama with meditation and Kung Fu

• Friday Night (High)lights: On busy Friday night downtown, GSL leaders fortify hold on top of standings

All stories for Oct. 11, 2025 »

• Motley Fool: A Pfat dividend yield

• Bloomsday Perennial: Inspired by her sons, Dianne Bruhn is looking forward to 50th Bloomsday

• This day in history: Dam business and a baseball photo that was historic for one simple reason

• The Dirt: New restaurant to replace Gordy’s Sechuan Cafe; new apartments planned near Liberty Park

• A Grip on Sports: There is a chance Sunday’s results could make all of the recent pro sports’ positivity go down the drain with alacrity

All stories for Oct. 12, 2025 »

• Then and Now: Brunot Hall

• This day in history: Local chapter of National Organization for Women protest city over firefighter application; Montana woman accused of running smuggling ring

• A Grip on Sports: It was pretty apparent at about 9 p.m. Sunday that we had just experienced a special day in Northwest sports

• Gonzaga opens at No. 21 in preseason AP college basketball poll

• Former Gonzaga standout Drew Timme waived by Brooklyn Nets

All stories for Oct. 13, 2025 »

• This day in history: The last relics of Expo ‘74 were coming down, marking the end of a landmark era for Spokane

• ‘I never intended to be the last person standing’: Bloomsday Perennial Pete Thompson started the race on a whim, but it’s turned into something much more

• A Grip on Sports: Keep those presents under wraps a little while longer folks. A Christmas-in-October Mariners World Series berth is still not assured

• Gonzaga, USF to play at Golden State Warriors’ Chase Center for third consecutive year

• Spokane-based PotlatchDeltic merges with Florida company

All stories for Oct. 14, 2025 »

• This day in history: Health concerns were growing over the Bunker Hill smelter, particularly for children living nearby

• A Grip on Sports: It’s possible the Mariners’ dream season could end like just another October horror flick but we’re not going to let it impact family dynamics

• Trans Idaho athlete’s request to dismiss case denied. Supreme Court could be next

• Idaho Christian lobbying group doubles down on false claims about drag performer

• Seahawks, oft-traveled QB Sam Darnold seem to have found perfect match

All stories for Oct. 15, 2025 »

• Gardening: Community garden digs into Spokane’s roots

• This day in history: A man’s accidental death in Sandpoint led to a lawsuit from his family against the city

• Group gives LGBTQ+ seniors a place to socialize and find support

• A Grip on Sports: A blowout may seem devastating but an ALCS from the Mariners’ past shows it could end up just being a big speed bump

• Five Below store to open Spokane Valley location

All stories for Oct. 16, 2025 »

• This day in history: A former groundskeeper claimed to have killed 42 people, which would have made him ‘the largest-known mass murderer in the history of the United States’

• Bloomsday perennial: Dr. Bill Peters runs the race and then races to help others

• Man in last month’s UI fight recovering, says father

• ‘They have the perfect play style.’ Gonzaga picks up commitment from four-star center Sam Funches

• A Grip on Sports: The Mariners play the most-important game in their history today – until the next most-important one

All stories for Oct. 17, 2025 »

• George F. Will: How Trump’s advent and the internet killed the media’s agenda-setting power

• Marc A. Thiessen: Putin bluffed Biden. It won’t work on Trump.

• This day in history: Authorities linked braggart to 9 murders. Spokane streetcar company proposed 10-cent fares

• Commentary: Bridging the red-blue divide on climate

• A Grip on Sports: Suárez comes through in a big way as the M’s swing and swing and swing philosophy pays off in crucial ALCS Game Five victory

All stories for Oct. 18, 2025 »

• This day in history: Spokane City Council considered traffic problems on Perry, Courtland and Central; boys injured by dynamite

• Bloomsday Perennial: Runner nearly missed recognition for completing each race

• The living and dead of Spokane’s rural cemeteries

• A Grip on Sports: Saturday night’s loss was a case of déjà vu – or another term – for the Cougars as they had a chance for a statement win slip away late

• The Dirt: Apartment buildings planned next to Hart Field

All stories for Oct. 19, 2025 »

• Then and Now: Sullivan Road Bridge

• This day in history: Missoula man rigs Rambler to burn wood as fuel; Judge fines lumber companies for price-fixing

• A Grip on Sports: After falling short on Sunday, the Mariners still have a high-stakes do-over tonight in Toronto

• Prep roundup: Mt. Spokane’s Grace Hughes, Kaia Oglesbee score two goals apiece in win over Shadle

• Halloween may be around the corner, but the Christmas Bureau is already taking online applications from some recipients

All stories for Oct. 20, 2025 »

• This day in history: Whitworth’s homecoming game was canceled; Spokane principal warned that children were learning to gamble at fair

• A Grip on Sports: The Mariners got closer to the Promised Land than they ever have but it is easy to wonder if Dan Wilson is ready to lead them there

• ICE says it detained over 100 immigrants in Idaho raid. What we know

• Why Nico Harrison, Jay Triano and Mark Cuban thought Gonzaga’s Ryan Nembhard was a perfect match for Dallas Mavericks

• Europe auto industry braces for chip disruption within days

All stories for Oct. 21, 2025 »

• This day in history: Spokane’s debate over selling stray dogs for medical research intensified

• Bloomsday Perennial: Despite loss of inaugural T-shirts, he’ll keep completing Bloomsday ‘until God takes me home’

• Attorney with strong record against NCAA to serve at injunction hearing for Gonzaga’s Tyon Grant-Foster

• A Grip on Sports: Though we would rather not have the option, we can turn our gaze toward other subjects besides baseball

• Small but mighty: Jenna Howe eclipses century mark on pitch; leads undefeated West Valley on state title quest

All stories for Oct. 22, 2025 »

• Gardening: Digging out the truth behind popular garden myths

• This day in history: Thomas Creech, who claimed he killed 42, convicted of murdering 2. Proposed candy store near Roosevelt school sparked outrage

• Spokane nonprofit to build housing community for domestic violence survivors

• Graham Ike’s switch to No. 15 at Gonzaga and a tribute to a man who beat the odds

• Gonzaga picked to win WCC; Graham Ike and Braden Huff named to preseason team

All stories for Oct. 23, 2025 »

• This day in history: Timber industry suffered under high interest rates. Woman accused of killing husband said she was abused and neglected

• Former EWU football player buys $3.45M ‘Casa Del Leone’ in Spokane

• Rubber bullets, ‘animal fighting,’ zip-ties: What we know about the Idaho ICE raid

• A Grip on Sports: If you are counting on the NFL games to save your sports viewing weekend, you might want to come up with a new plan

• WSU earns commitments from two JUCO prospects: DT Andy Burburija, RB Daniel Swinney

All stories for Oct. 24, 2025 »

• Michelle Goldberg: Trump’s lust for desecration

• Michelle Goldberg: Trump’s lust for desecration (copy)

• This day in history: A courtroom melee sent a detective to the hospital

• A Grip on Sports: The Dodger steamroller gets rolled in Toronto, raising the bar for college football today in the upsets realm

• Friday Night (High)Lights: Greater Spokane League 4A/3A division playoff teams set, 2As poised for Week 9 shenanigans

All stories for Oct. 25, 2025 »

• This day in history: The American Freedom Train and a big, fat Serbian wedding

• Bloomsday Perennial: Jim Parry has relied on beer cans, a sling and ‘a lot of luck’ to compete in every race

• The Dirt: Childcare provider to expand downtown Spokane location; Davenport Grand remodeling restaurant

• WSU rewind: After Cougs’ win over Toledo, their shorthanded offensive line’s efforts shouldn’t go unnoticed

• Commentary: Why the best is still to come for the Mariners

All stories for Oct. 26, 2025 »

• This day in history: American Freedom Train rolls into Spokane with historic items on display; Police take in alleged gang of robbers who burgled across region

• Then and Now: Britt’s

• A Grip on Sports: It’s that day again, the rare day when the five major pro sports leagues each have a game

• Here’s what we know about the Mariners’ 2026 payroll budget

• Gonzaga, with Grant-Foster making debut, shows off depth, inside power in exhibition rout

All stories for Oct. 27, 2025 »

• This day in history: Idaho Catholic bishop was considering Coeur d’Alene Tribe’s request for mission. More robbers arrested

• Bloomsday Perennial: T-shirts in pristine condition and races meticulously recorded, Mike Tobey is ready for 50

• An unforgettable night at the World Series lasted 18 incredible innings

• A Grip on Sports: In both instances it took a lot longer than it should have but there were a couple clear winners Monday

• One day after massive immigration raid, Idaho school district saw absences soar

All stories for Oct. 28, 2025 »

• This day in history: KHQ radio was about to take the airwaves. Polygraph test not allowed in murder trial

• ‘So much more than a costume’: Nurses dress up NICU babies for Halloween at Sacred Heart to bring ‘normalcy’ to families

• ‘This is huge for us’: Coca-Cola distribution facility expansion in Spokane Valley complete

• New details revealed of FBI investigation, ICE raid at Idaho horse track

• Prosecutors: Kohberger should pay more restitution

All stories for Oct. 29, 2025 »

• This day in history: Idaho’s newest attorney general contender decided to run after being acquitted of his wife’s murder

• Blue Jays on verge of reclaiming World Series glory – and shocking baseball world

• A Grip on Sports: Drive around Spokane’s South Hill and you will run into flocks of turkeys – though maybe not as many as are showing up in college football these days

• Bear ravages Spokane apiary, killing thousands of bees, destroying hives and gorging on honey to the tune of $25,000

• EWU has ‘work cut out’ in make-or-break game against Sacramento State

All stories for Oct. 30, 2025 »

• This day in history: Opinions were still divided on a controversial proposal to sell stray dogs for medical research, but Spokane’s mayor was on board

• Small school basketball: Spokane Colleges focus on growing with local talent

• Whitworth women lean on reigning NWC Rookie of the Year Ashlyn Peterson

• Whitworth men have reinforcements to once again battle for NWC supremacy

• Idaho women hope incoming transfers are the missing pieces to win Big Sky

All stories for Oct. 31, 2025 »