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Dancing. Puppets. Boomboxes on bicycles. The Spokane Shakespeare Society brings the hilarious and electric “As You Like It” to Spokane’s parks this summer.

In a land of coffee shop giants like Starbucks and Dutch Bros, Gonzaga alum and Wake Up Call owner Christopher Arkoosh wanted to wake up the people of Spokane to what a locally run, people-first coffee shop looks like in action.

For 9-year-old Metta Olson, watching a shark dissection at the Mobius Discovery Center each summer is becoming a tradition.

Games are shaking up the classroom – not as a student distraction but as a new learning mode.

Spokane County officials will begin mailing Aug. 6 primary election ballots Wednesday as political campaigns ramp up efforts to sway voters.

Outside the Northeast Community center's east entrance, a newly installed kiosk dispenses free covid tests and will soon offer additional free health supplies.

MILWAUKEE – Two men stood outside the gates of the Republican National Convention on Tuesday, one on each side of a mass of people inching through a security checkpoint, and put on display what may be the biggest divide in the otherwise unified delegates who had approved a new party platform the previous day.

MILWAUKEE – The Republican National Convention is teeming with journalists eager to interview the thousands of delegates and other party faithful in attendance. Unlike many other states, Washington’s delegation doesn’t include members of Congress or other statewide elected officials with experience talking to the news media, but it does have a secret weapon to help them deliver the message of GOP unity that has defined the convention.

It’s fresh produce season in Spokane, and KERNEL is keeping children engaged and educated at local farmers markets.

While recent days have cooled since the record-breaking heat spell peaking at 104 degrees, the ones ahead could be similarly scorching and unrelenting.

MILWAUKEE – The Republican National Convention kicked off Monday with a roll call vote that officially made former President Donald Trump his party’s nominee for another term in office. But in a day heavy on nostalgia for Trump’s years in office, his choice of Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio as his running mate turned delegates’ attention to the future.

MILWAUKEE – Over breakfast at their hotel on Monday, Washington state’s delegation began the first day of the Republican National Convention with a prayer acknowledging the shooting at a rally in Pennsylvania two days earlier that left one supporter of former President Donald Trump dead and two others wounded, while Trump himself seemingly escaped death by mere inches as a bulletpierced his ear.

As longer, hotter summers continue to light the state’s forests on fire and climate change sparks debates over how best to power the state, Washington state’s next Commissioner of Public Lands will have a lot on their plate.

Story of a really cool local poet named Stephen Pitters, and an overview of a local poetry radio station show and other poetry events in Spokane that connect the community and showcase spoken arts.

Through his 29 years of life, Quindrey “Drey” Davis influenced hundreds of local musicians through his teaching and thousands more who heard his beats as a prolific percussionist.

Two teenagers who went to Lewis and Clark High School were killed in a head-on collision Saturday evening with a driver suspected of being under the influence of drugs or alcohol on state Route 27.

Enrollment at public universities is dropping. Why? Because "less kids are going to college."

CUSICK, Wash. – The light scent of campfire wafted through the Kalispel Powwow Grounds along the east bank of the Pend Oreille River last week. Although summer camp was taking place, this wasn’t an ordinary campfire. It was an earth oven buried underground baking camas, an ancient staple of the Kalispel Tribe.

Three challengers seek to head public education in Washington, vying for the role of superintendent of public instruction held by incumbent Chris Reykdal since 2017.