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News >  Washington

Spokanites, Canadians get rowdy as the Seahawks secure second Super Bowl success on Sunday

UPDATED: Sun., Feb. 8, 2026

A Canadian and a birthday girl walk into a Spokane bar to watch the Seahawks win their second Super Bowl.

News >  Federal Government

‘We’re redefining who we are in the world’: Cardinal Blase Cupich, former bishop of Spokane, weighs in on U.S. foreign policy, immigration crackdown and more

UPDATED: Fri., Feb. 6, 2026

CHICAGO – Sitting in the rectory of Holy Name Cathedral, Cardinal Blase Cupich recalled how he started celebrating mass in an unfamiliar setting after he arrived in Spokane as the city’s new bishop in 2010: in the fields and orchards of Eastern Washington, where farmworkers labored on Sundays.

News >  K-12 education

Tekoa School District seeks operations levy to continue extracurriculars, class size in the district of 200 kids

Fri., Feb. 6, 2026

The tiny Tekoa School District that teaches 200 kids at two schools in northeast Whitman County is asking voters to renew a school operations levy on Tuesday’s ballot.

News >  K-12 education

A $1 million fleet of robots is Spokane Public School custodians’ latest tool for squeaky clean floors

Thu., Feb. 5, 2026

It’s long after the final bell has rung at Glover Middle School and all the students have gone home for the day, but a recent addition to the school is just beginning its solitary job cleaning its many hard floors .

News >  Federal Government

Rep. Michael Baumgartner accepting nominations for Eastern Washington teacher to attend State of the Union address

UPDATED: Tue., Feb. 3, 2026

WASHINGTON – For the second consecutive year, Rep. Michael Baumgartner is inviting an Eastern Washington teacher to attend the State of the Union address as his guest.

News >  K-12 education

‘Safe and comfortable for students to learn’: Rural school districts in Whitman County seek levy renewals

UPDATED: Mon., Feb. 2, 2026

Two rural school districts are asking voters to approve replacement levies to support their local and shared schools.

News >  K-12 education

How Moses Lake processes a deadly school shooting 30 years later: ‘If you try to bury it, it’ll get to you’

UPDATED: Sun., Feb. 1, 2026

MOSES LAKE – Football Coach Jason McLean won’t ever forget the exact date he started teaching: Monday, Feb. 4, 1996.

News >  Federal Government

How can someone in midst of legal process to stay be deported? And other questions about America’s confusing immigration laws

UPDATED: Sun., Feb. 8, 2026

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump campaigned in 2024 on a promise to crack down on illegal border crossings and conduct a “mass deportation” of unauthorized immigrants unlike anything the United States had seen before.

News >  Federal Government

Spokane Aerospace Tech Hub gets new life after Washington’s senators add $70 million to government funding package

UPDATED: Fri., Jan. 30, 2026

WASHINGTON – The Senate passed a sweeping government funding package on Friday that includes two provisions that could make up to $70 million available to the Spokane Aerospace Tech Hub, a consortium of nearly 50 companies, agencies and schools working to make the Inland Northwest a global leader in manufacturing advanced composite materials.

News >  Federal Government

Border Patrol alleges missed check-ins led to arrest of 10-year-old Spokane girl and her father

UPDATED: Thu., Jan. 29, 2026

Border Patrol officials say they detained a Guatemalan father and daughter in Spokane earlier this month because he missed multiple required immigration check-ins as he sought asylum in the United States.

News >  Pacific NW

Newport School District proposes $46 million bond; a replacement levy is also on the ballot

UPDATED: Thu., Jan. 29, 2026

A heating coil broke inside one of Newport High School’s classroom walls this week and flooded the room with an inch of water and sent water into neighboring rooms.

News >  K-12 education

East Valley School District $220 million bond would replace 64-year-old high school, 56-year-old middle school

UPDATED: Fri., Jan. 30, 2026

Carpets held together with fraying duct tape, chunks missing from the ceiling, tiles falling off the side of a building, vastly different temperatures across the school, a lack of ventilation that traps the odor of teenagerdom.

News >  Crime/Public Safety

Five children, two adults injured in car crash near Colville Saturday

UPDATED: Mon., Jan. 26, 2026

A car crash south of Colville sent five kids and two adults to the hospital on Saturday morning.

News >  Federal Government

After Alex Pretti’s killing, Patty Murray and Senate Democrats vow to block DHS funding bill she negotiated

UPDATED: Mon., Jan. 26, 2026

WASHINGTON – Less than a week after Sen. Patty Murray negotiated a bipartisan bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security while reining in its aggressive immigration crackdown, the Washington state Democrat vowed to block that legislation after Saturday’s fatal shooting of a Minneapolis man by the department’s agents.

News >  Federal Government

After 9 months of uncertainty, federal workplace safety agency NIOSH brings back workers at Spokane Research Lab

Sun., Jan. 25, 2026

WASHINGTON – After being paid not to work for nine months, employees at a federal office in Spokane dedicated to workplace safety were reinstated on Jan. 13, but their research faces challenges and uncertainty after many left during the long layoff period.

News >  K-12 education

Border patrol detains 10-year-old Spokane girl and her dad, sends them to Texas detention center

UPDATED: Fri., Jan. 23, 2026

Arnoldo Tiul Caal dropped his daughter off for school at Logan Elementary the morning of Jan. 9 with the unnerving sense that they were being followed.

News >  K-12 education

Three rural superintendents, one East Valley administrator selected as finalists to lead school district

UPDATED: Wed., Jan. 21, 2026

After some six months since the search began, the East Valley School District board Thursday selected four finalists for the soon-to-be open superintendent position in the school district.

News >  Federal Government

ICE agents would have to wear uniforms and body cameras, but could still cover faces, under bipartisan Homeland Security bill

UPDATED: Tue., Jan. 20, 2026

WASHINGTON – The Department of Homeland Security’s immigration enforcement agents face new accountability measures and a modest cut to their deportation budget in a bipartisan funding package unveiled Tuesday by Sen. Patty Murray of Washington state and her fellow negotiators in Congress.

News >  K-12 education

‘I found myself’: Rogers High School student reflects on civil rights journey through South, what it revealed about ancestry, resilience

Mon., Jan. 19, 2026

On a school trip to the deep South, a dichotomy was immediately apparent to Emmanuel Eberhardt.

News >  Transportation

Multiple passengers injured as STA double-decker bus doesn’t clear viaduct

UPDATED: Tue., Jan. 20, 2026

A double-decker Spokane Transit Authority bus with passengers apparently took the wrong street through downtown Sunday, causing it to crash into the downtown railroad viaduct overpass.