The Washington State Department of Transportation has some ideas on dressing up the North Spokane Corridor. And it wants to hear from as many people as possible about the “placemaking” near the long-awaited north-south freeway.

Spokane’s north-south freeway is one of nine highway projects featured in “Highway Boondoggles 4,” a report by the U.S. PIRG Education Fund and the Frontier Group issued in June.

Since construction began in 2001, 606 pieces of property have been purchased by the Washington State Department of Transportation, and 533 buildings demolished. Much of that destruction has been in Jim Ringo and Patricia LaVoie’s neighborhood, even if the highway is still miles and years away from coming to this part of East Central.

Rapid development throughout Spokane County is galvanizing advocates of ponderosa pines. They want to find ways to preserve and replant urban forests as the region grows.

Spokane police arrested a man Wednesday accused of raping a minor behind a convenience store in north Spokane.

Taking things apart is often easier than putting them back together, especially when it comes to obsolete electronics.

The late Margaret Hurley’s opposition to urban freeways was legendary.

Matthew C. Bossard was arrested Thursday in connection with the death of a man who was found dead in his bathroom Thursday morning in north Spokane.

A pawn shop employee was stabbed Friday afternoon after trying to stop a man allegedly attempting to steal a bike, according to the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office.

For the second time in 10 days, a drive-thru ATM in north Spokane was the target of rogue machinery.

A man shot and killed by two Spokane Police officers in the Shadle Walmart parking lot Wednesday has been identified as 34-year-old Chad Cochell.