Transportation

By midsummer, the state will help pick up the tab on a new ride to work, school and the grocery store for nearly 10,000 Washingtonians.

After decades of delays, the federal government will begin enforcing Real ID requirements to fly domestically starting May 7 – for real this time.

A brush fire along Interstate 90 west of Spokane is blocking one lane of the off-ramp to Airway Heights and the Spokane International Airport.

Residents of the East Central Neighborhood will have the opportunity to shape what the long-awaited North Spokane Corridor connections to Interstate 90 will look like at a town hall hosted by the Washington State Department of Transportation.

Speeders leaving Washington for Idaho will get a friendly reminder in the mail to slow down.

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.

Construction on state Highway 53 is leading to traffic backups for a detour route on the north end of Rathdrum Prairie near the Washington state line.

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.

Drivers on Spokane’s lower South Hill may have been treated to a waterfall tour over the weekend.

Spokane International Airport set a new record for air travel in 2024, which is a year that saw several changes to the regional travel hub.

Roman Harner said the first Monday of February was the Volstead Act’s worst day in the 13 years the bar has served downtown patrons.

A new four-lane divided highway is expected to make travel between the Tri-Cities and Walla Walla safer and faster.

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 rural ferry linking Stevens County to the Colville Reservation could go out of service more often under updates to the Columbia River Treaty.

Spokane Transit Authority now has its first double-decker bus, but the vehicles will not be ready for service until the second half of 2025.

While Spokane may not see a very white Christmas this year, those traveling to the west side or Idaho likely will.