If central Spokane Valley's intersections were a high school student, he would be sitting in the back of the class, head down, barely scraping by. And his prospects for graduating would be grim. 

Lime announced a milestone in mid-June: 1 million rides had been taken on its scooters and bikes in Spokane since they first arrived in 2018.

Two semis collided and the accident is partially blocking traffic. 

There's no single source of the greenhouse gases that are warming our planet, and there's no definitive way to tie the Pacific Northwest's recent heat wave to those gases. But ample evidence indicates Spokane is getting hotter and drier, and that gas-guzzling vehicles are a major source of carbon emissions in our area. 

Pavement on U.S. Highway 195 north of Colfax buckled on Tuesday, in what is likely to be just the beginning of infrastructure damage as a historic heat dome bears down on the Northwest.

The lawsuit alleges the city's own study of Division Street called for pedestrian-activated lights that were never installed. As Spokane looks to reimagine Division Street for safety, the crosswalk could be one area where the city should focus its efforts.

The Spokane Transit Authority will get $6.3 million in grants from the federal government to promote greener transportation in the city.

The Republican governor was speaking at one of the countless sites where that question has come up: at the intersection of U.S. Highway 95 and Lakeshore Drive, near the south end of the Long Bridge, which crosses Lake Pend Oreille, connecting Sagle to Sandpoint. 

Spokane Public Schools students are out for summer as of midday today, and the Spokane Transit Authority may have just the thing to help keep them occupied until class is back in session: a free bus pass.

Since breaking ground on the $1.5 billion North Spokane Corridor in 2001, WSDOT has made about 5 miles of progress and opened the NSC from its northern terminus to Freya Street, north of Francis Avenue. But the department still has about 5 miles and eight years to go.

WASHINGTON – While attention at the Capitol remained focused on an uncertain effort to strike a bipartisan deal on new infrastructure spending, on Wednesday the Senate Commerce Committee voted overwhelmingly to approve a five-year, $78 billion transportation bill to boost the federal government’s annual spending on passenger rail, freight transportation, road safety and more.

Suggestions for how to improve the pocky road running along the Spokane River bluff in northeast Spokane included telescopes for amateur stargazers. Other suggestions focus on improving access for cyclists and a smoother ride for motorists. 

Rick McDonald’s mother was “furious,” he said, when she found he’d spent $213 buying a brand new Raleigh Grand Sport at Wheel Sport Bikes on North Division Street in 1972.

WASHINGTON – A transportation funding bill approved by a House panel Thursday would send roughly $48 million to central and Eastern Washington for road and bridge improvements requested by lawmakers, but a disagreement among House Republicans about the new earmark process means North Idaho won’t see any such federal money.

Two months after activating the ramp meters, as these lights are known, the Washington State Department of Transportation is planning to increase their use.

An ultra-modern “airship,” capable of carrying six passengers and a pilot, was coming to Spokane to serve routes to Walla Walla, the Coeur d’Alene mining district and points in between.

MINOT, N.D. – When the Empire Builder stopped in this town of about 50,000 for an hour-long refueling break on Tuesday, Athena Larsen and her brother Josh Medlin piled on with her 4-year-old daughter and his two sons, ages 3 and 1.

On my 60-plus-hour journey to Spokane from the nation's capital, I'm riding a diesel-powered Amtrak train with a top speed about half of the Acela's, traveling on 2,659 miles of track mostly owned by freight railroads, and I wanted to know how climate-friendly my choice really was.

The coach section of the train was nearly full as we rolled through this historic town where West Virginia, Maryland and Virginia meet at the junction of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers.