Transportation

Krogman had moved to a home on Baltimore Road with her daughter, son-in-law, Landon Roper, and husband, Bruce Krogman, three years ago from the West Side, her daughter said. She quickly set to work outfitting the home with artwork and furniture, and helped landscape a garden on the property. Barn & Blossom, a garden center up the road from their home, was one of Catherine Krogman's favorite places, her family said. 

According to data from 2019, Maple Street Bridge ferries 45,000 cars a day over the Spokane River, surpassed only by the Division Street Bridge’s 48,000. That’s 45,000 vehicles that will need to find an alternate route to cross the river during the bridge’s closure.

All lanes of Interstate 95 are closed in both directions in Northeast Philadelphia after a highway overpass collapsed Sunday morning as a result of a truck fire, city officials said.

Up to 25% of required parking spaces for new Spokane developments can now be substituted with bike parking spots, after the City Council voted unanimously Monday night to modify city code.

Kicking off Pride month, artists on Sunday painted the intersection just south of Riverfront Park with a massive Pride flag.

The group of major oil-producing countries known as OPEC+ said Sunday that it would embark on a complex effort to adjust production as it aimed to halt the recent slide in oil prices, including an additional cut in output of 1 million barrels a day by Saudi Arabia.

India said its deadliest rail accident in nearly three decades was due to a fault in an electronic signaling system, as the focus turned from recovering victims to restoring train operations. 

ATHOL – If you’d seen the big, ceremonial scissors biting into the thick band of red ribbon, you might not have guessed what all the hullabaloo was about.

A bicyclist died when he was hit by a semitruck at the intersection of North Wood Road and West Four Mound Road Saturday morning.

Memorial Day weekend marks the beginning of summer and is one of the busiest of the year for car travel.

From staff and wire reports

Developers constructing new buildings in Spokane may soon no longer need to build as many parking spaces, so long as bike parking spaces are built instead.

The statistics are sobering: Children in rural communities are five times more likely to die in a car crash, and those children are likely to be using incorrect seat restraints.

The Spokane City Council voted unanimously last week to lower the speed limit year-round from 30 mph to 20 mph on Belt Street from Wellesley Avenue in the north to Rockwell Avenue to the south. That stretch of road passes by a library, pool and school facilities, and drivers have caused a number of injuries to pedestrians in that area, including a fatal collision in 2020.

“It’s individual sport, so you have to have a good deal of drive, but you have a team that surrounds you."

Something sensational took place on Saturday night at the Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox. Yes, the music was great, the soloist was spectacular, and the Spokane Symphony played brilliantly.

America's love affair between the automobile and AM radio - a century-long romance that provided the soundtrack for lovers' lanes, kept the lonely company with ballgames and chat shows, sparked family singalongs and defined road trips - is on the verge of collapse, a victim of galloping technological change and swiftly shifting consumer tastes.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – A bipartisan movement advocating Americans’ right to repair their own phones, cars and tractors is gaining momentum in state legislatures across the country – and now in Congress, too.

WASHINGTON – The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee on Wednesday advanced a bipartisan rail safety bill that was informed by officials in Spokane and prompted by the February derailment that left a plume of toxic chemicals over East Palestine, Ohio.