Finches fluttered in The Lab at the North Spokane library last week, but these birds didn’t fly. That’s because they were Finch Robots operated by kids who were learning basic computer coding during a free class offered at the library.

The state will spend more than $8 billion in the next two years on roads, bridges and mass transit projects with about $127 million of it coming to Spokane County.

A well-known “nuisance home” in North Spokane was shuttered Tuesday morning – its windows and doors boarded up and its occupants forced to leave – after years of complaints from neighbors and a year and half of intervention from police.

Work on the north Spokane freeway resumes on Monday along with a handful of other major projects in the region

A major road block in the path of a new North Spokane freeway may be coming down under an agreement announced this week.

Tapio Center loses appeal seeking early payment for freeway construction.

Oil contamination in the old rail yard in Hillyard is causing problems for the future route of the North Spokane Corridor.

Doug Clark: Just when it looked like the long-awaited north/south freeway would actually be finished, the Hillyard Doom Plume surfaces.

The North Spokane Corridor freeway has hit a roadblock in Hillyard where historic rail operations left a spill of bunker-C oil floating on the aquifer 170 feet underground.

Gov. Jay Inslee took the bus to his afternoon appearance in Spokane, and shared with his fellow riders how pleased he is that lawmakers approved an $11 billion transportation funding package last year.

With full funding now available for completing the North Spokane Corridor, engineers are back at the drawing board refining their plans that will bring major changes to neighborhoods in east and northeast Spokane.

Randy Hastings’ drive to work takes him to the east side of Spokane, over the dirt roads of Hillyard to the forgotten part of town where he’s kept his business – R&R Heating and Air Conditioning – since 1987.  He drives past empty lots, decrepit homes, a trailer park, warehouses, laboratories and large grocery store distribution complexes. The roads shift from paved to graveled, new to old, from being bordered by sidewalks and landscaping to a fuzzy edge of overgrown weeds. Standing outside the empty building his business outgrew a decade ago, but which he still owns and leases out, Hastings points to a fire hydrant the city made him pay for, next to a road he has unsuccessfully asked the city to build for years, and at a house he’s pretty sure is a drug front.