Although the two trails are separated by a short distance as the magpie flies, they remain unconnected. Bridging the two together would effectively add a nearly 10-mile southward spur to the Centennial Trail, or allow those riding the Fish Lake Trail direct access to the 65-mile Centennial Trail between Nine Mile Falls and Coeur d’Alene.

The current end date for the project is 2029, but Spokane legislators are hoping for an acceleration of that timeline, if new transportation funds pass in the state Legislature this year.

A three-year project to widen Barker Road is winding down while a $26-million overpass and roundabout project has just begun. 

There were “about 50” registered voters living in the mile-square area that would become Airway Heights on April 19, 1955, the day they elected to incorporate as a city, according to a story in this newspaper.

For all the talk about roads in the state's budget, those who serve the city's visually impaired argue less expensive sidewalk solutions may be a better way to spend money. After all, a quarter of the population doesn't have a driver's license. 

Spokane's electric streetcar line may have hit its peak in 1912, as evidenced by the digital release of a new map showing routes and stop information. The same day it was published, Spokane Transit Authority showed off its new battery electric bus for the City Line opening next year. 

High Bridge Park was the name given in 1913 to the area that follows Latah Creek from Vinegar Flats, south of Interstate 90, to where the creek meets the Spokane River.

Consider it just one more sign of spring: the return of Lime’s electric scooters and bikes to Spokane.

At a cost in the tens of millions of dollars, the region could help to alleviate some of the transportation problems that will be caused by booming growth the in Vinegar Flats area of town. But how to handle traffic headed west on Interstate 90 is a larger – and costlier – question. 

Daily passenger rail service is on track to return to Spokane.

The system has a long, complex history, but one important factor, according to the latest draft of Spokane's new Downtown Master Plan, was a 1961 report that called for an "'inner loop system' of one-way streets defining the core area's perimeter to improve vehicular movement."

If you feel any special fondness for plugging a parking meter, now's the time to head downtown and plink a coin in the good old-fashioned metal heads that have long lined the streets.

Avista Corp. has agreed to match a $2.5 million grant from the Washington Department of Commerce to build charging infrastructure for the planned expansion of electric cars in the next decade. 

The question of how to better move traffic up and down the South Hill between the Lincoln Heights and Southgate neighborhoods and around Ferris High School has confounded city planners for more than half a century.

What looks like a puddle or a patch of ice, depending on the weather, on a new section of Forker Road is potentially a dangerous and costly mistake that has sent Spokane County in search of a natural spring beneath the roadway and will likely lead crews to replace a section of fresh asphalt on the long-awaited Bigelow Gulch Urban Connector project.

BOISE – Several states around Idaho allow immigrants who are living in the country illegally to obtain a driver’s license, and a recent state legislative report explores what impact that makes.

Consider two bike commuters: Rhonda Kae Young and Justin Short. Though they take a different approach to the prospect of a bike commute in the winter, both say the city could do more to encourage such travel during the cold months. 

The owners of aerospace manufacturer, Triumph Composite Systems in Airway Heights, announced Wednesday that it will be closing its factory in the summer of 2022.