Transportation

Voters will be asked this August whether to renew a 0.2% sales tax funding the Spokane Transit Authority for another 20 years, following an at-times contentious board vote Wednesday.

In Eastern Washington’s most expensive transportation project to date, the North Spokane Corridor will be built over Freya Way and into a partial interchange on Trent Avenue.

A possible tax for a new jail and to boost public safety may derail plans to ask voters this summer to renew the sales tax that pays for Spokane’s bus system.

With the two-week ceasefire in the war between Iran and the United States appearing to hold as of Sunday, many Spokanites are left wondering why they’re still feeling the pinch at the pump.

The state wants to help more Washingtonians secure a cleaner, less labor intensive ride.

Travelers going through the rural town of Chewelah will see delays and lane closures beginning Wednesday.

A construction project to widen Barker Road in Spokane Valley will keep around a thousand feet of South Barker Road closed for three months.

Spokane Transit Authority is reopening its investigation into the January double-decker bus crash that injured seven people, only three days after it announced a final report.

Officers from Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrived Monday at several U.S. airports, but Spokane and Seattle were not among them.

The United States war with Iran has sent gas prices soaring, particularly in Spokane, where most gas stations have seen spikes by at least $1 per gallon over the past month.

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump threatened to deploy Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to U.S. airports on Monday if congressional Democrats do not immediately agree to fund airport safety.

The Spokane Transit Authority found no deficiencies with its own policies, procedures or training leading up to the January double-decker bus crash into a downtown Spokane railroad viaduct, according to an internal investigation whose findings were partially released late Friday afternoon.

A Spokane Transit Authority bus missed its turn on a Cheney route Friday afternoon and got stuck in an apparent attempt to make a U-turn on a two lane road.

Next week, a commercial airplane will depart from Spokane’s Felts Field for the first time since 1946.

Police reports appear to confirm the driver who crashed a double decker bus into a downtown Spokane viaduct in January was incorrectly routed there by onboard navigation software.

The Department of Homeland Security said Sunday that TSA PreCheck, a program that allows travelers to move through airport security more quickly, would remain available, hours after announcing that it would be suspended.

The Department of Homeland Security will temporarily suspend two popular programs that allow some travelers to move more quickly through airport security starting Sunday at 6 a.m. Eastern due to the shutdown of much of the agency, according to a DHS spokesperson.

Electric-powered motorcycles could soon have to play by different rules of the road under a bill advanced by the House Transportation Committee last week.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – In the sleepy, car-centric outer reaches of Sacramento, across the street from low-slung homes and behind an unassuming wooden fence, the next generation of American passenger rail is taking shape.