OLYMPIA – Gov. Bob Ferguson has not indicated whether he would support increasing the state’s gas tax, Speaker of the House Laurie Jinkins told reporters Wednesday.
OLYMPIA – The Washington State Senate adopted a bipartisan transportation package on Saturday that would raise billions of dollars through higher gas taxes and some car registration fees, close a deficit in the transportation budget and fund the completion of the North Spokane Corridor.
Idaho travelers can expect delays through Interstate 90 this summer. The Idaho Transportation Department is starting or resuming four construction projects beginning this month between Post Falls and Cataldo, according to several news releases and information from project web pages.
On a relatively sunny Thursday afternoon as another Spokane winter draws to a close, children walked the few blocks from Logan Elementary and Yasuhara Middle schools to Donut Parade, where helping the store place labels on a handful of doughnut boxes will earn them a free treat.
A half-mile stretch of Freya Street near the Esmeralda Golf Course will be the first casualty of Spokane’s 2025 construction season, with closures starting Monday and continuing through the summer between Garland and Wellesley avenues.
The U.S. Department of Transportation awarded Spokane Transit Authority a $2 million grant Friday to further the design of transportation improvements through one of Spokane’s busiest streets.
The Idaho Transportation Department is looking for public input on more than a dozen proposals to reconfigure the roads and highways surrounding Rathdrum Prairie in Kootenai County.
The Spokane Transit Authority is requesting public input on a slate of service changes coming to the system next year that could boost service for those outside of Spokane’s city limits.
The Department of Natural Resources is moving forward with an exchange of property in Latah Valley. But what might happen to some of Spokane’s last undeveloped land is still up in the air.
A 58-year-old aviation author, airport owner and real estate businessman who released a documentary this week about his nearly nine-month polar circumnavigation and peace mission flight was uninjured when he crashed his plane, dubbed “Citizen of the World,” Monday afternoon at Felts Field in Spokane.
Spokane Transit Authority's board of directors announced this week that it has appointed two existing executives within the agency to lead it as officials search for a replacement for CEO Susan Meyer, who retirement in June.
