Transportation

SANDPOINT – The 2-mile bridge connecting U.S. Highway 95 over Lake Pend Oreille could be replaced and expanded sooner than previously expected.

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.

Leave early, go slow and “pack your patience.”

A Spokane County commissioner once told this newspaper that the vast majority of the calls they receive from constituents have something to do with local roadways.

With a light dusting Saturday and a couple inches forecast this week, snow season has officially arrived in Spokane, and the plows are ready.

As winter is well on its way, road work projects are winding down, and Spokane has one street closure scheduled this week as construction persists on the North Spokane Corridor.

Larry Krauter, the architect of much of Spokane International Airport's recent expansion efforts, is leaving the job as Spokane Airports CEO to take a similar job in Cincinnati. 

Instead of waiting for the Federal Aviation Administration to build an air traffic control tower, Coeur d’Alene Airport decided to build its own.

The Spokane Transit Authority is expanding its footprint in Spokane Valley, in more ways than one.

Temperatures are dropping and local municipalities are winding down their road work for the season, though some projects are ongoing.

More than 20 years ago, Spokane County set forth with an ambitious plan to connect Spokane Valley and northern Spokane with a wider, safer and quicker thoroughfare.

Locals should have an easier time running errands around Airway Heights, thanks to an expanded thoroughfare on the city’s north side.

A 6-mile stretch of U.S. Highway 95 south of Lake Pend Oreille would be expanded to a divided freeway with interchanges, underpasses and frontage roads, according to a new concept by the Idaho Transportation Department.

The Centennial Trail between Mirabeau Park and Islands Trailhead in Spokane Valley will be closed for a few weeks starting Monday.

The Keller Ferry was taken out of service for several hours Monday to fix a minor mechanical issue.