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. 

Thompson lived his entire life in the Logan neighborhood near Gonzaga University, his alma mater and also where he taught law for many years. He died earlier this month at age 87. 

The Chronicle was predicting that the jitneys (private cars or vans) would now be allowed to undercut the streetcars by charging only a nickel. This would put Spokane’s financially strapped streetcar system in an even bigger bind.

“The deaths that they document — it’s just the tip of the iceberg,” Leon Eagle Tail said.

Cathie Winegar went back to a downtown Spokane workspace in May after COVID vaccinations and nearly 14 months of working at home. Yet she and roughly 20% of Washington Trust Bank workers in certain roles won’t return to all five days in the office.

The individual choices guiding residents of Eastern Washington on getting COVID-19 shots – and why the region is lagging behind other parts of the state – may best be shown by two local mothers.

With the immediate pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic slowly receding, city officials are focusing on a long-term plans for homeless services in Spokane.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Washington and the Public Defender Association are threatening legal action against the city of Seattle for denying a permit to a group called “CHOP Art,” which had planned a celebration this weekend of Juneteenth and last year’s takeover of parts of Capitol Hill by racial justice protesters.

Union leaders want to hold contract negotiations in private, but the Spokane County's not budging. 

A trip away from home prompts a question with no universally accepted answer: To mask or not to mask?

All things considered, Saturday was a great day to graduate from Shadle Park High School.

It looked and felt like the most quintessential small-town American high school graduation imaginable.

People turned out to the new west lawn at CenterPlace in Spokane Valley on Saturday for the first Asian and Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander Heritage Day as sun peeked through the clouds.

MOSES LAKE – Ron Sawyer said the water in Moses Lake is as clear and clean as he’s seen it in the 40 years he’s owned and operated Cascade Marina.

Federal agencies are still working with the Washington Department of Health to include their data in the state’s vaccination records.

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.

Ronald Ilg has been in custody in the Spokane County Jail since April 16. The former director of the MultiCare Deaconess Hospital neonatal intensive care unit is charged with a single count of attempted kidnapping, a felony that carries a potential 20-year prison sentence.